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Modern PHRs beyond Meaningful Use
Patient-facing health IT has come a long way, but is also poised to make another significant leap forward. Last week, the final rules for Stage 2 Meaningful Use were released, and even though these...
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HIEs are not just for EHRs anymore
Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are hubs where different parts of the healthcare system can exchange information with each other. Doctors can communicate with other doctors, with hospitals, with...
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Do doctors resist health information exchange with patients?
Health technology tools are rapidly emerging, a swirling rising tide of products (web and mobile applications) addressing countless niche issues in the very complex healthcare ecosystem. Two...
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Free-standing PHRs and Stage 2 Meaningful Use
In the upcoming year, Electronic Health Record companies will be challenged to enhance their products in anticipation of Stage 2 Meaningful Use. Stage 2 is right around the corner, and will begin in...
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Healthcare collaboration and PHRs in 2013
With the beginning of 2013, health IT is facing a new set of challenges. Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors are gearing up for Stage 2 Meaningful Use certification, which includes more emphasis on...
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The art of population management
The term “population management” has become one of the buzzwords of modern health care. Medical practices as well as larger delivery organizations, such as medical groups, IPAs, ACOs, and PCMHs, are...
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Paperwork in an EHR-enabled medical office
Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems come with the vision of eliminating paper in a medical practice. “No more paper” is the rallying cry of many an EHR company. But is this the case? As it turns...
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Trends in EHR vendor strength
On April 2nd, 2013, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made available their updated data table for EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use) attestations, with specification as...
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Two-year EHR analysis now available
Newly released federal data has allowed analysis of the EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use) based on two years of data. First-year users, both from 2011 and 2012, as well as second-year users (who...
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Can patient engagement be achieved from a clinician messaging system?
For clinicians participating in the federal EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use), Stage 2 of Meaningful Use (MU2) is right around the corner (2014). No one yet has EHR software that is certified for...
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Identity verification is key for successful implementation of Direct
Health Information Technology is on the threshold of a significant step forward. Up until now, most of the emphasis in health IT was encouraging physicians and other ambulatory providers, as well as...
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Patient-generated health information is the future of healthcare
“Patient engagement” has certainly become a buzz-word in the realm of modern health IT. Medical practitioners as well as hospitals hope to encourage patients to interact with them using on-line tools,...
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Patient centered health IT as the solution to universal health identifiers
The effort to build health IT products that are patient-facing, and able to pull together all the health information about oneself into one unified dashboard, is well underway. It is the inevitable...
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Rethinking health information exchange
We have come a long way, in the past several years, in our efforts to bring health care data into the modern era of electronic connectivity. Yet, the entirety of one’s health story is still fragmented...
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Patient centered data is the best solution for “meaningful consent”
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) recently released guidelines to address the question of consent when it comes to electronic health information exchange (eHIE) – “meaningful...
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Value based healthcare payments – what kind of IT is needed?
The trend toward value based payment for healthcare services is gaining momentum. For better or for worse, we have paid for health care in the U.S. on a fee-for-service basis – from the perspective of...
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What is the future of EHRs?
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have come a long way in moving U.S. healthcare onto an electronic platform in the past few years. As of 2013, the majority of practicing community physicians, as well...
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When do physicians behave like consumers?
We are seeing a flood of health IT tools come in to the market, some simple and some highly complex. The way that physicians approach the adoption of these tools has major implications for vendors....
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EHRs as platforms
Some very interesting trends are occurring in the health IT arena, which raise the question of what role Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems will have in the future. A few years ago, the focus for...
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As co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Flow Health, a collaboration platform for transitions of care, I will continue to contribute new content on the Flow Health blog. The most recent article,...
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