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Environmental Intelligence Releases January 2014 EI Connections Newsletter

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Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its January 2014 EI Connections Newsletter.  Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: January 2014 EI Connections Newsletter Want to automatically receive our monthly newsletter?  Click on this link to … Continue reading

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ONC Looses Authorized EHR Certification Body

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The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology will stop offering ONC testing and certification services. Instead, CCHIT will work toward increased IT interoperability by counseling providers and developers on certified EHR requirements. Thanks in part to what it says is … Continue reading

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CDC Report Cites Physicians Not Prepared For Stage 2 MU

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The Stage 2 numbers for eligible docs are, some might say, a little bit scary. Most office-based physicians are not prepared for the October 2014 beginning attestation date. In fact, many aren’t even close. Only 13 percent say their electronic … Continue reading

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CMS EHR Incentive Payments Approach $20B

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Electronic health record incentive payments to eligible docs and hospitals continue to climb into the new year. The “inexorable progress” of the federal EHR incentive program continues, with payments to providers moving ever closer to $20 billion. As of the end … Continue reading

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Patients Now Paying Attention To Meaningful Use

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Meaningful use — it’s not just for healthcare providers anymore. Patients are paying attention to what meaningful use of electronic health data entails and why it’s important; they’re understanding, and now they want it. The federal government’s ambitious plan to … Continue reading

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Meaningful Use is Good for Business

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Remember the old days? Way back before 2009? Healthcare had some catching up to do. But no one quite knew just how to do it. So much of the industry was still paper based. Where technology was deployed, it was … Continue reading

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2014 Outlook On Health IT

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Hospital leaders and office-based physicians will face daunting Healthcare Information Technology stress tests in the coming year. One test is underway for some, who have to meet stepped-up Stage 2 meaningful-use criteria for electronic health-record systems. For hospitals that had … Continue reading

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2014 – The Year For HIE

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The growth of the cloud, the emergence of payers and the race to analytics now present several large challenges to health information exchange organizations, Chilmark Research argues in a “baker’s dozen” of 2014 forecasts. The Meaningful Use (MU) stage two … Continue reading

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Stage 3 MU Is Driving Health IT Interoperability

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The push for meaningful use Stage 3 has reached a point where a confluence of power structures are ready for more breakthroughs – hence, the impetus for collaboration among IHE USA, ONC and S&I Framework, officials from these groups say. … Continue reading

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Environmental Intelligence Releases December 2013 EI Connections Newsletter

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Happy New Year! Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its December 2013 EI Connections Newsletter.  Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: December 2013 EI Connections Newsletter Want to automatically receive our monthly newsletter?  Click on … Continue reading

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