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Due to the interactive and real-time nature of an EHR, clinicians have a number of powerful tools at their fingertips that can be used to provide clinical guidance to patients and encourage healthy changes in behavior. With the advent of patient portals, personal health records, and mobile apps, there are now a number of additional…
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Productivity can be defined as “the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services” (Dictionary.com). In a medical office, productivity refers to the number of patients seen and managed during the course of a defined period of work. The implementation of an EHR results in an…
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A number of enhancements to the EHR Ratings are now available. AmericanEHR Partners uses a five point rating scale to report EHR satisfaction ratings across 12 categories including Satisfaction, Overall Usability, Support Experience, and nine others. Until now, it has not been possible to compare an EHR product rating to a benchmark measure. With the…
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Templates are an EHR functionality that can either enhance or inhibit clinical documentation. If templates work right, they are a terrific benefit to users of EHR systems; however, templates must be easy to create, modify, and customize. Some users are very happy and others very dissatisfied with their EHR’s ability to manage templates. Over the…
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A data set released January 13, 2012, by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology provides some insightful information on the CMS Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program in terms of Electronic Health Record systems that were used for attestation in 2011. The data can be analyzed by state, provider type, provider…
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The HIMSS12 Annual Conference and Exhibition will take place February 20–24, 2012, in Las Vegas. To register for HIMSS12, please click on this link: HIMSS12 Registration Housing is open and reservations can be made by clicking on this link: Hotel Reservations or by calling (877) 517-3038. Visit AmericanEHR Partners at Booth #13
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