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The Time Has Come to Digitize Behavioral Healthcare

Digital Health Today

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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Sheri Rawlings, CIO, San Juan Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

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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OntarioMD Looks to Help with AI Adoption and EMR Improvements

Healthcare IT Today

Having a certified EMR qualified physician practices for government incentive dollars to digitize medical records (similar to the meaningful use program in the US, just on a smaller scale). In the past, OntarioMD has been responsible for Certifying EMRs.

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Theresa Meadows, SVP & CIO, Cook Children’s Health Care System, Chapter 1

Health System CIO

About Cook Children’s Focus on ambulatory growth — “It’s critical to our overall system strategy.” Meadows also discusses the tricky transition from nursing to IT, how her nursing background has helped shape her leadership strategy, and the mistake CIOs can’t afford to make. Enabling mobility — “Clinicians are always in motion.”

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Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?

Healthcare IT Today

healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. This is what Novant Health, a US South-East healthcare network, did. Will this strategy work for improving portal adoption? In fact, it was.

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The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

Healthcare IT Today

We believe TEFCA will lead to additional exchange partners and eventually will support additional use cases beyond queries for treatment and individual access. Fragmented systems are a major hurdle, as diverse EHR systems often lack compatibility, making seamless data sharing difficult.

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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

Shelby Chamberlain, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Patient Discovery To effectively raise capital in the healthcare space requires delivering to investors a product that has a clear market fit, solves a meaningful need, and delivers the proof points required to establish a concrete path to profitability. Since the U.S.