“Solo docs join the digital ranks” by Bernie Monegain, Editor, Healthcare IT,...
Solo and small physician groups are benefiting not only by the government incentives for adopting an EMR, but also the impact it is having on healthcare. Checkout Epichart for an affordable, easy to...
View ArticleYour practice relies on your data, keep it safe!
6 crucial steps to securing your data. “From hackers to hurricanes: 6 crucial steps to securing your data”....
View Article2014 Meaningful Use Quick Reference Grids
ONC announced the 2014 Meaningful Use Quick Reference Grids. Stage 1 and Stage 2 objectives and measures linked to 2012 Edition EHR certification criteria. Download the criteria here! Stage 1...
View Article4 out 10 office based physicians are now using an electronic health record
Meaningful Use may be largely responsible for the large increase in physicians that are using EHRs, which has increased from the 1 out 3 just a year, but instincts also say the organization and...
View ArticleEHR incentives to reach $10 billion dollars by end of 2012
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are estimating since the program’s start, payments in the amount of $9.245 billion dollars have been paid out to 177,100 physicians and hospitals. Final figures...
View ArticleEHRs, Plus…
EHRs are implemented to improve quality of care for patients, but more than just the actual EHR system shows to be needed to ensure that quality measures are being meet. In a recent study that was led...
View ArticlePatient engagement, access to records or not?
Meaningful Use Stage 2 is in well on its way to being effective for 2014 and everyone knows this stage focuses on patient engagement. Having patients actively engaged in their healthcare is important...
View ArticleNeed to make an EHR switch quickly?
With recent news of EHR vendors failing to certify and now Mitochon shutting down their free EHR service, this could leave some practices looking to quickly get their data and move. Well good news is...
View ArticleICD-10 is moving as planned.
The much anticipated IDC-10 coding system is a go for October 1st, 2014. The hope that would be extended another year is not in the plan. Farzad Mostashari, MD, The national coordinator for healthcare...
View ArticleEHR’s, doing what they were invented to do.
Seems like EHR’s are doing their job in helping transform healthcare. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, providers are increasingly using electronic health records to manage...
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