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Health Care Reform: Ready or Not, Here it Comes
May 22, 2009 10:48 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Nancy Nager, RN, BSN, MSN, president of Specialized Billing Services, Inc. Medical billing is about to get a lot more complicated. If your medical practice hasn't kept pace with new billing requirements, or if you're bogged down by Read More...
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Flexible Accreditation: The Politically Acceptable Key to Accountability — and Interoperability
May 4, 2009 11:09 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Lee Barrett, executive director of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards-development and accreditation organization. Information technology has been mature enough to transform Read More...
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E-prescribers Pass 100,000 Milestone
April 24, 2009 1:46 PM by Frank Irving
Surecripts, operator of the nation's largest electronic prescribing network, reported on April 22 that more than 100,000 prescribers are now routing prescriptions electronically in the United States. Surescripts made the announcement in conjunction with Read More...
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Keeping Digital Medical Records Secure
April 17, 2009 4:27 PM by Frank Irving
By now, just about everyone in the industry knows that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)'s provisions include more than $20 billion in funding for technology investments by health care organizations. However, some of the deeper implications Read More...
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Will the Weight of EMRs Break IT?
April 9, 2009 4:53 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Alex Adamopoulos, executive vice president and COO of Exigen Services Pulling together as a nation to overhaul an aging, often paper-based medical records system is long overdue. We can all agree it will create jobs, pump money into Read More...
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For EHR Implementation, the Time to Act is Now
March 26, 2009 2:37 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Thomas L. Pettibone, founder and managing partner of Transition Partners. President Obama's economic recovery package allows for billions of dollars for health care IT investment. As the recovery package begins to be distributed, Read More...
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EHR Rework Ahead
March 25, 2009 11:27 AM by Frank Irving
A large majority of readers -- 65 percent -- who answered ADVANCE 's online opinion poll during the past month said they need to rework their existing EHR plans in light of the HIT provisions of the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Read More...
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Change Can’t Happen with Technology Alone
March 3, 2009 11:39 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Michael L. Cowan, MD, chief medical officer at BearingPoint and former surgeon general of the U.S. Navy It's official. The economic recovery package has been signed and $19 billion is marked for health information technology. But, Read More...
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Consumers Need All of the Facts in the Privacy Debate
February 26, 2009 1:06 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by David St. Clair, founder and CEO, MEDecision The economic stimulus package that President Obama has signed contains upwards of $20 billion to create electronic health records for most Americans within five years. The president has Read More...
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Putting Information at the Center of Smarter Health Care
February 19, 2009 1:49 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Wayne Janzen, Executive Information Agenda Consultant for Global Government and Health Care, IBM Health care organizations have made significant investments in IT over the years to improve both patient care and business processes. Read More...
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Thinking Beyond EHRs
February 9, 2009 12:22 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Ned Moore, CEO and co-founder, Portico Systems, Inc. With the passage of the Obama economic stimulus package by the House of Representatives, now in Senate review, there has been a lot of discussion about what the $20 billion slated Read More...
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A Ball on the Mall
January 26, 2009 3:55 PM by Bob Mitchell
Guest commentary from Mark W. Stevens, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative and Advocacy Co-Chair of the Delaware Valley chapter of HIMSS A Dad Takes His Daughter to D.C. to Witness History On Tuesday, January 20 th at 3:45 a.m., Read More...
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Wireless Carriers Brace for Inauguration Day
January 20, 2009 10:18 AM by Frank Irving
With crowd estimates topping 2 million in and around Washington's National Mall for today's inauguration of Barack Obama, major wireless carriers expect some congestion on their networks. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) has Read More...
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Invited, but Unexpected
December 18, 2008 8:36 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Cheryl McEvoy, editorial assistant for ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals . Obama's transition team has extended an open invitation to all Americans to participate in community discussions about health care reform over Read More...
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States Tripled Number of HIT Bills Enacted in 2007-08
December 17, 2008 1:21 PM by Frank Irving
According to a report released last week by the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), lawmakers around the country introduced more than 370 bills relating to health information technology (HIT) during an 18-month period between Read More...
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