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Epic Systems Corp. sits atop a heap of more than 400 developers of complete electronic health-record systems for ambulatory-care physicians and other eligible professionals who have received federal EHR incentive payments, federal data shows.
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Epic Systems Corp. and Meditech have the most customers receiving federal electronic health-record system incentive payments in the two key categories for hospital systems, federal data show.
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When thousands of Gulf Coast residents fled Hurricane Katrina, many of their paper-based medical records were soaked or blown to the winds. Ever since, proponents of electronic health-record systems and health...
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Four developers of electronic health-record system are in a tight battle to become the most popular developer of complete, inpatient EHR systems that hospitals use to achieve meaningful use and receive Medicare EHR incentive payments, an analysis of federal program data shows.
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Epic Systems Corp. has more physicians and other eligible professionals who have attested as meaningful users of complete electronic health-record systems in the ambulatory-care setting than any other vendor in a still-crowded and intensely competitive field, an analysis of federal data shows.
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If 2011 was the year the federal government implemented its programs to promote the use of electronic health-record systems under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and 2012 was the year those plans were executed, 2013 is the year the feds will need to think small.
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The great thing about data is if you play with it, it tells you stories. Then the question is, are the stories true?
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The digital divide between small and rural hospitals and their larger and more urban counterparts may be closing, according to a Modern Healthcare analysis of a federal database of meaningful users of electronic health-record systems.
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Three-hundred-and-thirty-three vendors of complete electronic health-record systems for ambulatory care have had at least one customer attest to having met the Medicare EHR incentive payment program's meaningful-use criteria.
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The digital divide between large and urban hospitals and their smaller and more-rural counterparts may be closing, based on an analysis of a federal database of electronic health-record systems and the EHR vendors supplying products for hospitals participating in the Medicare EHR incentive payment...
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