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Contributing Writer · May 31, 2011
Secure e-messaging between patients and their doctors
Electronic communication between clinicians and patients is central to the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Several Meaningful Use criteria relate to providing patients with an electronic copy of their health records in a timely fashion.
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Contributing Writer · May 16, 2011
Meaningful EMR Use Update
The opening of the Medicare attestation window for the CMS EHR incentive program on April 18th signaled the last significant milestone of the Stage 1 Meaningful EMR Use process.
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Contributing Writer · May 12, 2011
Personal Health Records Are The Future
Google Health and Microsoft Health Vault are dead but PHRs are very much alive
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Contributing Writer · May 10, 2011
What is Clinical Decision Support? Fulfilling the CDS requirement for Meaningful Use
Clinical Decision Support is one of the criteria needed to demonstrate Meaningful Use and access bonus money from the CMS EHR Incentive Program. Yet, the term is fairly vague, and means different things to different people.
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Contributing Writer · April 26, 2011
Transition from paper to an EHR
We often get wound up in the details of how a particular Electronic Health Record (EHR) system functions, and how it helps us demonstrate Meaningful Use – so much so that we sometimes take for granted the difficult transition from paper to a digital platform...
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