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Regarding “HHS signs off on IT patient-safety plan”: Perhaps the government should have figured out how to standardize reporting of IT and EHR safety issues before requiring and incentivizing us to use them.
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Moore (Okla.) Medical Center, a satellite site of Norman (Okla.) Regional Health System, took a direct hit from the terrible tornado that killed 24 people and injured 377 others May 20. It will most likely never open its doors again. However, as Modern Healthcare reported, the medical center had...
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The era of big data is approaching. It's hard to overestimate its potential for revolutionizing the practice of medicine.
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Providers realize that reimbursement for healthcare delivery is changing. The economic and cultural forces now buttressing accountable care and value-based healthcare delivery have never been stronger.
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We are all coming to grips with the reality that healthcare IT staffing and recruitment is a vexing problem. The executive team at Holy Spirit Health System—particularly the human resources vice president and chief financial officer—now tacitly accepts that I cannot fill vacancies and...
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Singer Emmylou Harris once noted that she learned to love making music in living rooms. But as her record-making career advanced, things got more technical with the control room emphasizing making things perfect. “We've lost the living room,” she complained. “The living room has...
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Here in Iowa, we like to get going early. That's particularly the case with my hospital.We started our EHR journey in 2004.
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Healthcare organizations have a lot to learn from health information exchanges.
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Mobile technologies are changing the way healthcare is consumed and delivered in America, paving the way for greater consumer engagement, reduced costs and better patient outcomes. Driving the trend is the growing prevalence of smartphones and tablets, which have empowered consumers like never...
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Though the U.S. has already spent more than half the $22.5 billion earmarked for computerizing medical records, there has been achingly slow progress in creating an accessible, interoperable system that works for patients.
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