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25 Quotes That Show Just How Fed Up Physicians Are With EHRs

By Max Green for Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review More than half of the physicians who bill Medicare in the U.S. are currently being penalized 1 percent of their 2015 payments as a result of the meaningful use program, according to Steven J. Stack, MD, president of the American Medical Association. “Imagine, in a world…

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From Meaningful Use to Meaningful Outcomes

By Marc Probst, CIO and Vice President, Intermountain Healthcare for (HCI) Healthcare Informatics The federal government recently announced that its mandate for health information technology will move in a different direction. The change represents a vital opportunity that could lead to dramatic improvements in health care delivery. Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Centers…

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2016 Election Candidates’ Stances on Health Care

By Matt O’Connor for (H&HN) Hospitals & Health Networks Here are the 8 presidential election candidates’ stances on health care, taken directly from their websites. Jeb Bush: Website ObamaCare is a government takeover of more than one-sixth of the American economy, and it epitomizes why Americans are so fed up with Washington. To win on repeal, conservatives…

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Dolbey Sweeps KLAS Research Speech Recognition Categories

CINCINNATI, OH – For the fourth consecutive year (2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015/2016), Dolbey was named Best in KLAS for Speech Recognition. Dolbey earned this year’s 2015/2016 Best in KLAS award for its patented Fusion SpeechEMR® front-end speech software. Dolbey’s back-end speech product, Fusion Speech®, also earned the 2015/2016 KLAS Category Leader award for the…

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Hacking Accounted for 98 Percent of Healthcare Data Breaches in 2015, Report Says

By Heather Landi for Healthcare Informatics While lost and theft of employee devices accounted for the majority (68 percent) of healthcare data breaches in 2014, last year was a different story, with 98 percent of breaches due to hacking and IT-related incidents, according to a Bitglass Healthcare Breach Report. The report cites a series of…

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The Best of the Best: HCI’s Top 10 Health IT Stories of 2015

By the Editors of HCI for Healthcare Informatics Not surprisingly, it was another big year in the world of health IT, mixed with positive developments and unsettling trends. Last week, HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland looked at the seven significant things we learned this year, and social media manager Megan Combs parsed through the analytics and found…

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Healthcare HIT Enters ‘Post-EHR Era’

By John Commins for HealthLeaders Media A drop in the percentage of IT budgets that is directed toward electronic health records systems signals a shift in focus. Now it’s on broader business problems and on operational efficiencies, research suggests. Hospital health information technology budgets are still growing, but the focus has shifted from meaningful use benchmarks…

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The End of Meaningful Use: 6 Health IT Leaders React

By Akanksha Jayanthi and Max Green for Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review January 15, 2016 While CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt’s announcement of the end of meaningful use was met with a collective sigh of relief from the healthcare industry, questions, concerns and expectations regarding the future remain. Though frustrating, many IT leaders do…

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A Mobile Device Triggered a HIPAA Breach In Your Office… Now What?

By Jennifer B. Cohen, Esq. for Physicians News Digest In today’s health care environment, even the smallest practices have integrated the use of mobile devices into their daily practices; recordkeeping using laptops, tablets, and even cell phones has become a norm, rather than an exception. This is no surprise, given the portability and convenience of using…

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