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Contributing Writer · October 7, 2011
Meet Practice Fusion Connect Speaker Daniel Kraft
A little over a month from now, over 1,000 Practice Fusion users, health IT industry leaders and EMR evangelists will make their way down to the Bay Area to join us for the 2nd Annual Practice Fusion Connect conference! We’ve got a great line-up full...
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Contributing Writer · October 4, 2011
Patient Consent in the Era of HIEs
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT is trying to develop a more adequate method of documenting patient consent, when it comes to sharing and forwarding health information from one party to another, in the age of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). The...
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Contributing Writer · September 6, 2011
HIPAA Breaches: Small-scale snooping is most common
Privacy and security of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are pivotal to widespread acceptance and adoption of these technologies. The federal government as well as many other sources are encouraging the uptake of EHRs, yet concern over the security of such records remains an issue for...
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Contributing Writer · August 29, 2011
Hospital Medical Coding in the Health IT Age
As the 2013 ICD-10 deadline looms, the need to abstract almost 20,000 diagnosis codes – a complex undertaking already - will soon become a labyrinth of over 150,000 codes. This would be significant enough to make any hospital take notice, without the additional squeeze on...
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Contributing Writer · August 25, 2011
Practice Fusion Connect - Then and Now
Last November was Practice Fusion’s first-ever user conference — a huge success and milestone in Practice Fusion history. The event was a mix of keynote speeches, exciting EHR feature launches, educational breakout sessions, and much more. We announced our 5 million patient milestone and we...
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