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Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
Surescripts, The Nation's E-Prescription Network, today announced that it has lowered the cost of e-prescribing services used millions of times each day by physicians, pharmacists and payers... Read More
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Monday, Feb 15, 2010
Members of a federal health IT advisory group last week proposed to relax the number of measures that will be required for healthcare providers to demonstrate " meaningful use " of electronic health... Read More
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Sunday, Jan 24, 2010
According to the 94,700-member American Academy of Family Physicians, while it "supports the goals" behind the proposed regulations, it believes that the regulations-as proposed-impose hurdles that... Read More
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Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010
A government survey indicates there was an 18.7% increase in the use of electronic health record software in physician offices to 41.5% in 2008 from 34% in 2007, but preliminary results for 2009... Read More
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Monday, Jan 11, 2010
Eighty-five percent of healthcare providers believe their ambulatory electronic medical record software will enable them to meet the 2011 meaningful use deadlines being considered by the federal... Read More
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Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009
HHS issued two sets of much-anticipated federal regulations that significantly further the government's healthcare information technology adoption agenda. The first set of regulations lists the "... Read More
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Monday, Dec 28, 2009
Believe it or not, physicians really do support the idea of EMRs . In one study of Massachusetts doctors, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 86 percent said... Read More
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Monday, Dec 28, 2009
There is a push going on for push messaging, a likely first step in rolling out a proposed national health information network in time for healthcare organizations to use electronic health record ... Read More
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Sunday, Dec 27, 2009
In a study published recently by " The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ", computerized provider order entry (CPOE) has been shown to improve patient safety by reducing... Read More
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Monday, Dec 21, 2009
A CIO believes that cost of EMRs is not the barrier to EMR adoption. He also says that Physicians in a community are paid on a pay-as-you go basis. So
anything that is perceived as a barrier to... Read More
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