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California Health IT Day – Improving Health Care through Technology
Today, May 15th, is California Health IT Day. As a proud healthcare technology company in California, Practice Fusion is celebrating by participating in a full day of events in Sacramento, California, sponsored by the Northern California Chapter of HIMSS, a non-profit dedicated to promoting a better understanding of health care information and management systems. Health IT (HIT) has a special place in California because of the large number of leading healthcare organizations as well as being the technology hub of… read more >
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Tagged clinical, EHR, Health, health information technology, Health IT, HIT, HITECH
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Main Themes From This Year’s HIMSS Conference
Each year, the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) puts on its annual conference, which draws large crowds from across the Health IT space – vendors, policy makers, press, consultants and multiple others. This year’s conference in Orlando drew about 33,000 attendees, and hosted an exhibit hall with over 500 different booths (with all the circus one can imagine). Were there any salient themes from this year’s “state of the industry” get-together? Last year, perhaps the one outstanding theme… read more >
State-Driven EHR Implementation
To Implement or Not To Implement: That Is The Thought Experiment Among the many provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the pillar of the individual mandate requiring most Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014. Even in the midst of implementing the state-wide health insurance exchanges, four courts have come to markedly different decisions about the Constitutionality of the individual mandate and PPACA in general. This judicial dialogue has thrown a cloud of uncertainty over… read more >
Posted in Health Research, Health Topics, Meaningful EMR Use
Tagged health information technology, HHS
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Achieving Productive Information Exchange
The Direct Project is designed to revolutionize exchange of health information between providers. No longer will providers’ offices need to fax copies of patient charts between physicians’ offices. The Direct Project envisions a future where two providers can electronically and securely transfer patient data from one physician to another. It can be thought of as a HIPAA compliant email system. The transition from current to Direct Project technology is like moving from using faxes to email to coordinate my work… read more >
Can we have high-tech, high-touch health care?
Does the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems get in the way of doctor-patient interaction? Does it make the doctor-visit experience colder and more distanced – more dehumanized? Is there more interaction with the tools, at the expense of the emotional connection that comes from simple eye contact? These questions have been actively debated, and were the topic of a recent interesting article on the importance of eye contact in the doctor-patient setting. The lessons are true regardless of… read more >
