Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2022

For the 88th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about EHR Optimization. Many people are tired of hearing about EMR and EHR. That feels like something we talked about a decade ago when meaningful use was hot and now we’re ready to move on. Many people are tired of hearing about EMR and EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health to learn more about the company’s EHR optimization activities. Job #1 for an EHR “An EHR should help people provide better care,” Dr. Blackman stated emphatically. It’s just that simple.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. The upshot?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2023

A More Unified Solution – CPSI CPSI is well known as an EHR vendor in the rural health and community health market. To help all healthcare organizations implement proper cybersecurity measures, Wright suggests that governments consider a funding program like Meaningful Use which accelerated the adoption of EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2020

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2022

For all its good and ill, meaningful use drove action and adoption of EHR in healthcare. What made the difference? Ok, $36 billion in stimulus money helped. However, the key to change was healthcare organizations having a common goal.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2019

In a whistleblower lawsuit, two former senior IT executives at Community Health Systems allege the healthcare system submitted hundreds of millions of dollars in false claims to HHS to receive federal meaningful use incentive payments.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 30, 2018

With Meaningful Use incentives dried up, EHR vendors are finding some success among smaller hospitals that don't have the capital for a massive EHR overhaul but need to keep pace with tech advancements.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 16, 2019

The feds have been pounding at physicians for years with the Meaningful Use program, which has been great at gaining EHR adoption and needed digitization of a paper-based industry, but it seems the pendulum has finally hit a wall. Doctors aren't going to like the solution to this problem, though.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

We’ve only seen a few times where something has dramatically changed the EHR product roadmap. The first time this happened was when the HITECH act and associated $36 billion of stimulus money was included to stimulate adoption of EHR software. In order to get access to that stimulus money, you had to use a certified EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Since its founding in 2005, MAeHC has worked to improve the safety, efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery in the state by guiding organizations in the implementation and meaningful use of health IT. It has also spearheaded interoperability, standards development and HIT policy initiatives.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Rob was an early adopter of electronic health records in his practice, after having been exposed to EHRs during his training. When implementing the EHR in his practice, he focused on fitting the EHR to his practice, not vice versa.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2024

In his opinion, the arguments made by AI proponents are eerily familiar to the arguments made during the initial EHR adoption craze. The initial promise of EHRs was that they were going to make your life better. There are lot of memories of those early days of EHRs.” In a lot of cases, this didn’t happen.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009, healthcare has digitized rapidly, with electronic health records (EHRs) now ubiquitous across medical practices – except for within behavioral health. Why EHRs Haven’t Caught On in Behavioral Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But just like comparing different types of aircraft, the options for EHR solutions are widely separated in terms of complexity. The right cloud-based EHR solution is ideal for underserved and isolated providers. The right solution can also offer a roughly 50% reduction in time and cost management of EHR infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2021

EHR developer athenahealth has agreed to pay $18.25 In its complaint, the US Justice Department claimed that athenahealth violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by running questionable marketing programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2019

It seems like an eternity that we’ve been writing about government regulations like Meaningful Use, HITECH, MIPS, MACRA, and a bunch of other abbreviations that many would like to forget, but can’t because they’re still a part of many organizations’ daily lives.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Rapid EMR adoption and implementation fueled by the generous government incentive program (Meaningful Use) EMR Consolidation. If I were to map out the phases of EMR, it would look like this: EMR Adoption.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

During the boom that was meaningful use and adoption of EHR software, consulting companies played an integral role in almost every large healthcare organization when it came to rolling out EHR software. Now that we’re […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

He also needed an EHR that could grow with him and that had open, well-published APIs. We wanted to know which EHR vendor he chose to partner with, the criteria he used to make his decisions, what problem BluByrd was created to solve, and what challenges lie ahead for practice owners. Only one vendor delivered. Davis, MD(Dr.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2019

In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 31, 2023

Electronic health records (EHRs) have revolutionized the healthcare industry, streamlining patient care, improving efficiency, and enhancing communication among healthcare providers. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text. Several respondents say that government regulations from the Meaningful Use era, starting in 2009, make it hard to comply without loading each note down with duplicate information.

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Docnotes

MAY 31, 2017

EHR purchase / deployment / optimization is a multi-year initiative. You don’t want your patients / competitors / peers to know that your EHR doesn’t work as expected. The argument is that ONC has no place creating certification criteria for capabilities that aren’t part of “meaningful use.”

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

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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Health System CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

When Sheri Rawlings started as CIO at San Juan Regional more than 4 years ago, the EHR picture in the physician community was dire. In this interview, Rawlings provides her honest take on Meaningful Use — and why it’s much more challenging for community hospitals, and the strategy she employs when introducing change.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Join us as we discuss the biggest topics of the last decade and also the hot topics for 2019. Government Regulations – Meaningful Use. Here's a summary of some of the top topics we discuss: Last Decade. Cloud Acceptance. Cybersecurity Explosion. Healthcare Consolidation. Physician Burnout. * Big Tech Entering Healthcare.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 4, 2013

Growing EHR Adoption and Meaningful Use. In January, we passed the 210,000 mark for the total number of providers, including nearly 200,000 eligible professionals, who received a Medicaid or Medicare incentive payment for successfully adopting, implementing, or upgrading or meeting meaningful use of EHR technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

Their conversation touched on Ambient Assist in the mobile EHR, making Mirth Connect GDPR compliant, and partnering with CrowdStrike on zero trust. Read more… Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024. NextGen’s Investments in Mobile, Cybersecurity, and Interoperability.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. Each of these use cases brings with it a unique set of programmatic and technical components.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. Putting Paper in the Rearview Mirror It wasn’t that long ago that HIM professionals were responsible for managing paper medical records. The era of rolling shelves, paperclips, and Dictaphones ended less than 20 years ago.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

We spoke a bit about the TEFCA — the interoperability framework proposed by ONC under the 21st Century Cures Act — which is intended to create a framework of trust that will ensure that healthcare records can be transferred and used in creation of longitudinal records for everyone.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Rob was an early adopter of electronic health records in his practice, after having been exposed to EHRs during his training. When implementing the EHR in his practice, he focused on fitting the EHR to his practice, not vice versa.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Rob was an early adopter of electronic health records in his practice, after having been exposed to EHRs during his training. When implementing the EHR in his practice, he focused on fitting the EHR to his practice, not vice versa.

Primary Care 60

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Rob was an early adopter of electronic health records in his practice, after having been exposed to EHRs during his training. When implementing the EHR in his practice, he focused on fitting the EHR to his practice, not vice versa.

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