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Contributing Writer · August 12, 2010
How to connect Health Information Exchange (HIE) with Electronic Medical Records
Health information technology (health IT) is seen as central to improving healthcare delivery, and is the focus of the HITECH section of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (which sets up and funds bonuses for Meaningful Use of Certified EHR technology). A...
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Contributing Writer · August 5, 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...
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Contributing Writer · July 29, 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...
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Contributing Writer · July 27, 2010
Healthcare Providers on Twitter and Facebook: What You Need to Know
The following post is a reprint from The Health Express:
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Contributing Writer · July 23, 2010
EHR Engineers: Behind the Scenes at Practice Fusion
We often talk about our business in terms of the Practice Fusion “Community”. It’s more than just a nice phrase: with over 50,000 medical professionals registered on our system ..it really does feel like a giant village most days.
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