By Melissa Salm – Once hospital staff members and physicians became accustomed to EHR technology, they and their patients reaped the many benefits offered by switching from paper to digital health records.
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By Rich Rutherford – Aligning incentive and quality programs with existing Accountable Care Organization (ACO) agreements is essential to improving patient outcomes and confidently negotiating private payer risk-based contracts. I started installing EHRs in 1999 with expected benefits of prescription legibility and reduced chart pulls.
The Ebola cases in the United States, despite their limited numbers, have generated considerable discussion and anxiety. The discussion has included health IT because of the initial assertion that the Dallas hospital’s electronic health record led to the first US Ebola case being sent home
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Real-Time Data Must Simultaneously be Pushed and Pulled in the Right Ways By Brian Ahier, Director of standards and government affairs, and Ashish Shah, Chief…