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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text. Inconsistencies also interfere with automated analysis by clinicians and researchers, who are seeking patterns in big data in order to lower costs or improve care. Follow the money.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces.

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Who will regulate mHealth? Patient Engagement at Crossroads; New Alliance Takes On Interoperability

Chilmark Research

Stage 2 meaningful use is requiring a deeper level of patient access to their records via view, download and transmit requirements and there is even a requirement for some email messaging between provider and patient. The group’s stated purpose is to enable interoperability across the five founding members’ EHRs.

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All my HIMSS coverage in one place

Meaningful HIT News

It’s a nice mix of news, features, analysis and commentary. Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. The last of my 10 MedCity News stories from HIMSS14 has been posted.

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HIMSS14: Patiently Waiting for Progress

Chilmark Research

EHRs Look Inward. EHR vendors are at last developing moderate to advanced functionality with their portals (refills, secure communication, education, scheduling), with improved UX/UI that is starting to conform to consumer tech standards. HIEs Look Backward.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

The IMDRF recognizes that the regulated community touched by this guidance is more software-focused than hardware-focused (and is not the traditional medical device regulated community), thus requiring some new approaches to data gathering and analysis. Comments Digital health figures in FDA's 2018 strategic roadmap.

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Healthcare CIOs Face New Pressures and Novel Opportunities

David Chou

Hospital CEOs Look to Forge Digital Innovation, Automation What do CIOs think of Brown’s analysis? Besides focusing on EHR optimization, organizations see automation as a way to become more efficient and cut costs, Chou adds. For several years, CIOs focused on implementing EHRs and meeting Meaningful Use requirements, she says.

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