Advice for getting small physician practices to adopt EHRs
Date: Oct 06, 2010 Steven Waldren, MD, director of the Center for Health Information Technology for the American Academy of Family Physicians, has helped many small physician practices implement and adopt EHRs.
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How will Berwick impact health IT adoption?
Date: Jul 09, 2010 While Congress was in recess, President Obama appointed Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which has been without an administrator since 2006. Let's forget the usual politics for a moment and focus on the impact this appointment will make on health IT adoption.
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The Case for hospitals to connect with physician groups
Date: Jul 06, 2010 Steven Waldren, MD, director of the Center of Health Information Technology at the American Academy of Family Physicians, gave an interesting provider perspective about meaningful use, financial incentives and hospitals reaching out to physician groups in a recent Q&A.
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Latest survey: Physician use of EHRs growing
Date: Feb 23, 2010 A survey recently released by research firm SK&A, a Cegedim Company, shows an increase in physician adoption of EHRs, confirming earlier findings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
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The Reporting dilemma
Date: Jan 26, 2010 For the most part, the American Academy
Early ARRA vendor winners
Date: Jan 12, 2010 ARRA has been good to Allscripts, as evidenced by the results of its second quarter financials. The company expects to see even better numbers in the coming quarters as adoption and acceleration of health IT grows. Analysts agree that the incentives are driving adoption.
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H.R. 3014 helps the little guys
Date: Sep 03, 2009 Congress is returning to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, September 8, with healthcare reform staring them in the face. It's been a scorching summer in more ways than one, but there's one piece of legislation that should get a quick pass.
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