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Contributing Writer · October 24, 2011
Meaningful Use Commonly Asked Questions
You’ve adopted Practice Fusion, you are pursing state or federal EHR Incentives this year and you need some guidance? We are here to help. We’ve heard a number of questions in the past few months and have worked to distill lessons from those most commonly...
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Contributing Writer · October 20, 2011
HIPAA and HIE – part 2: Point-to-Point Connections
This is the second in a 4-part series on the HIPAA implications of Health Information Exchange (HIE). In the first installment, we reviewed the Community Chart Sharing approach. In this installment, we will review the point-to-point connection approach; in the 3rd installment we will review...
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Contributing Writer · October 18, 2011
HIPAA and HIE – part 1: Community-Based Chart Sharing
This is the first in a 4-part series on the HIPAA implications of Health Information Exchange (HIE). We will present a framework for understanding the different kinds of HIE in the first 3 of the series: (1) the community chart-sharing approach; (2) the point-to-point connection...
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Contributing Writer · October 14, 2011
Health IT Chief at Practice Fusion Connect 2011
He’s called “the nation’s top health geek” and “Obama’s top health information technology guy” - Dr. Farzad Mostashari is leading the way to improve healthcare information technology in the United States as National Coordinator of Health IT for the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
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Contributing Writer · October 13, 2011
When it comes to EHR, podiatrists put their best foot forward
Among the Eligible Professionals who are going for federal incentive payments for Meaningful Use, podiatrists rank high among early adopters. In a recent article describing this observation, an analysis of the very first Meaningful Use payments made in May showed that 12% of recipients were...
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