WEDI ICD-10 State Collaborative Initiative Launched
New WEDI ICD-10 Initiative Looks at Reducing Time, Costs Associated with Compliance The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in…
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Four Years Later: Impact of the HITECH Act on EHR Implementations
New Report Looks At 2013 EHR Buying Trends By David Fried, Software Advice In a press release last Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human…
What’s Your Exit Strategy?
Ryan Ricks, DataSourceMD Follow him on Twitter @ryan_ricks One of the first questions pundits ask any time the U.S. gets embroiled in an international conflict…
HIPAA Compliant Emails: Myths and Facts
By Mike Semel Understand What Constitutes HIPAA Compliant E-mail Every day I get questions about HIPAA compliant e-mail, and many days I see or hear…
HHS Reports Providers’ Use of Health IT Doubles Since 2012
More than half of America’s doctors have adopted electronic health records HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that more than half of all doctors and…
Beacon Community Hosts Videocast Tomorrow on Using Health IT to Improve Healthcare
The Beacon Community Experience: Illuminating the Path Forward Lessons from the field: Using health IT to improve health The Beacon Community Program, Videocast:Â Wed, May 22,…
WEDI Seeks Participants for New 2013 Workgroups
Selects Co-Chairs New 2013 WEDI Report Workgroups The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health and Human…
Universal EHR? No. Universal Data Access? Yes.
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor A recent blog posting calls for a “universal EMR” for the entire healthcare system. The author provides an example…
Deloitte Survey Shows Physicians Using EHRs in Stage 1 Meaningful Use Satisfied
Stage 1 Meaningful Use of EHR Â Brings Savings in e-Prescribing, Better Patient Communication The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions is the health services research division…