Will there be mass consolidation among EHRs?
The number of vendors of Electronic Health Records products seems unsustainable. Stimulated by federal Meaningful Use incentives, plus the irresistible tide of pressures and encouragement from all...
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An ACO “heat map”
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are gaining momentum. These efforts, part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (recently upheld by the Supreme Court), aim at building voluntary groups of doctors,...
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HIEs are not just for EHRs anymore
Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are hubs where different parts of the healthcare system can exchange information with each other. Doctors can communicate with other doctors, with hospitals, with...
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Do doctors resist health information exchange with patients?
Health technology tools are rapidly emerging, a swirling rising tide of products (web and mobile applications) addressing countless niche issues in the very complex healthcare ecosystem. Two...
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Healthcare collaboration and PHRs in 2013
With the beginning of 2013, health IT is facing a new set of challenges. Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors are gearing up for Stage 2 Meaningful Use certification, which includes more emphasis on...
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The riddle of adoption of consumer PHRs
The term Personal Health Record, or PHR, has taken on different meanings, depending on who is talking. Mostly, it refers to a patient portal, connected to a particular data source (such as a...
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Two-year EHR analysis now available
Newly released federal data has allowed analysis of the EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use) based on two years of data. First-year users, both from 2011 and 2012, as well as second-year users (who...
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Patient-generated health information is the future of healthcare
“Patient engagement” has certainly become a buzz-word in the realm of modern health IT. Medical practitioners as well as hospitals hope to encourage patients to interact with them using on-line tools,...
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Value based healthcare payments – what kind of IT is needed?
The trend toward value based payment for healthcare services is gaining momentum. For better or for worse, we have paid for health care in the U.S. on a fee-for-service basis – from the perspective of...
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What is the future of EHRs?
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have come a long way in moving U.S. healthcare onto an electronic platform in the past few years. As of 2013, the majority of practicing community physicians, as well...
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When do physicians behave like consumers?
We are seeing a flood of health IT tools come in to the market, some simple and some highly complex. The way that physicians approach the adoption of these tools has major implications for vendors....
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EHRs as platforms
Some very interesting trends are occurring in the health IT arena, which raise the question of what role Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems will have in the future. A few years ago, the focus for...
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