Electronic Health Records (EHR) news and information

Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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Neil Boderman believes electronic records as they are now won't save money or time, so the Allentown, Pa.-based optometrist not only is forgoing the government's incentive money, he's resigning himself to accept its penalties rather than make the switch.
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Thanks to government incentives, more healthcare organizations in the U.S. are implementing electronic health-record systems than ever before. But EHR implementation isn't the same as EHR adoption, which requires significant investment in planning, training and personnel.
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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Dr. Steven Stack, American Medical Association board chairman, gave a spirited defense of physicians and a sharp, but balanced critique of electronic health-record systems at a federal “listening” session Friday on EHRs and their potential for use in billing fraud.
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A public official in a small town in Maine claims there are links between the high costs of an electronic health records system and the decision to close tiny St. Andrews Hospital and Healthcare Center in nearby Boothbay Harbor. That may not be the case.
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Over the past three years, about 21 million patients have had their medical records exposed in data security breaches that were big enough to require they be reported to the federal government. The Office for Civil Rights has been updating a list of the breaches, known to the healthcare industry as...
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Kaiser Permanente CIO Philip Fasano explains the healthcare giant's embrace of mobile technology and how electronic records have paid off.
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Practice Fusion, a provider of a free, Web-based electronic health-record system for physicians, has added Lisa Bari and Stefan Klocek to its team.
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More than a quarter-million physicians and other professionals eligible for the federally funded electronic health-record incentive payment programs have received payments, according to the latest government data.
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