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Contributing Writer · September 24, 2010
Practice Fusion Connect 2010
At Practice Fusion we feel really lucky. Lucky to have over 50,000 users who utilize our EHR to its fullest capacity and also truly believe in us as a company. As the social media specialist, I see firsthand the love and appreciation our users express.... Continue
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Contributing Writer · September 7, 2010
Is Meaningful Use important even if I don’t take Medicare?
Meaningful Use of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology is set to be in play in 2011. The bonus moneys that were funded by the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act(ARRA), under its HITECH section, are to be distributed through the Centers for Medicare and... Continue
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Contributing Writer · August 28, 2010
Science Fiction Becoming Health IT Reality
Robot nurses? Virtual doctor’s visits? Face recognition sign-on? Tablet computers with Clinical Decision Support? These concepts have existed in science fiction for decades. And unlike flying cars, they’re quickly becoming a reality in the healthcare sector. Continue
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Contributing Writer · August 6, 2010
ICD-10 Conversion: Coming to your EHR
The way we have all become accustomed to encoding diagnoses in health care will be changing quite dramatically in 2013. Since 1977, healthcare has captured structured diagnosis documentation using the ICD-9 system – in the U.S. the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) expanded on... Continue
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Contributing Writer · July 30, 2010
Patient access to their own EMR data
Involving patients as active participants in their own care is an important goal of improving American healthcare. The national priorities called out by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), as it has elaborated rules for the Meaningful Use of Electronic Health... Continue