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The recent announcement by Detroit Medical Center officials that the deployment of their EMR has
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced that it has authorized the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology and the Drummond Group to certify EHR products to qualify for the federal incentives for meaningful use of EHRs.
A recent report shows that despite the big push for health IT adoption, only 2 percent of hospitals in the U.S. can meet the federal government's criteria for meaningful use of EHRs. Are you surprised?
While many healthcare providers are scrambling to apply the new Meaningful Use guidelines to their practices in order to qualify for HITECH incentives, RECs charged with assisting providers may want to look beyond financial incentives to other factors that support or inhibit organizational change.
Several studies point to a higher adoption rate of smartphones by physicians than the general public. Given the historical low rates of technology adoption within the healthcare industry, this news may come as a surprise.
Y2K threatened power outages, food and water shortages, bank failures - all of which would render folks around the globe cold, hungry, thirsty, and without any way to get money to quell those. That catastrophe never happened, but ICD-10 has since been compared to Y2K, warranted or not.
Despite the relaxation of the proposed meaningful use criteria for the adoption of EHRs and EMRs, critics claim that the final rule is still too stringent and the rushed timeline will doom the whole transformation to a fully electronic healthcare delivery system. Politics aside, the critiques are actually a good thing.
Why did Ingenix pay so much for such a small HIT vendor?
Everyone in the industry is painfully aware of the state of hospitals today, even before the economic recession sent healthcare providers down a darker, deeper spiral. Add healthcare reform and the federal incentives for the meaningful use of health IT to the mix, and you’ve got major changes that would make mere survival monumental.
Emergency rooms fully equipped with EHRs have been credited with treating patients who eventually have shorter hospital stays than hospitals that have paper or basic EHRs, according to a new study.