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Contributing Writer · October 7, 2009
Interoperability and clinical chart sharing
The deliberations of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) are trying to build a platform where health data can be easily shared between appropriate stakeholders – physicians, patients, and others involved in healthcare – while maintaining privacy and security. The Federal Health Architecture (FHA)... Continue
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Contributing Writer · October 5, 2009
Secondary Health Data a Gold Mine
With health care organizations collecting hundreds of billions of gigabytes of data per year and the Feds poised to assure widespread dissemination of EHRs at long last, PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a survey of industry executives in which 75% predict their organizations’ data will be their... Continue
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Contributing Writer · September 18, 2009
The conundrum of Quality Metrics
Much of the discussion around how to “certify” an EHR in the new era is focused on reporting health quality data. It is also about collecting and sharing data in a standardized fashion, so that EHRs can readily display information from multiple sources about a... Continue
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Contributing Writer · September 2, 2009
Quest Diagnostics Integrated with Practice Fusion
Practice Fusion is excited to announce the availability of integrated Quest Diagnostics lab results within our Electronic Health Record. Any physician or medical practice using Practice Fusion can now connect to electronic Quest Diagnostics lab results with no consultants and no integration downtime. Continue
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Contributing Writer · September 1, 2009
Templating and Multi-Facility Scheduling: New EHR Feature Release
It’s time for another new feature release for the Practice Fusion EHR! As always, requests from our user community have guided these enhancements. Continue