Does everyone know your name? Well, they would if electronic health records were truly inter-connected on the super highway. Instead, we’re still seeing some potholes.
So where do we stand as the U.S. strives to be fully connected with EHRs by 2015? PhysiciansPractice.com examines how the nation is coping.
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The EHRs are coming, the EHRs are coming.
An estimated 44 percent of physicians are using electronic health records, says the National Center for Health Statistics. But, only 6.3 percent are using a fully functional system.
And that means more business to us. ClaimTek Systems’ MedOffice has EHR components that will gain clients for you as the [...]

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The Huffington Post presents arguments on whether the federal government is creating haves and have nots as it tries to create electronic health records nationwide by 2016.
Some industry leaders believe major urban centers are unfairly gaining greater share of resources while rural areas and small health care practices are being shafted. Thus, [...]

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Saying only one-tenth percent of hospitals and one fifth of doctors have electronic health records, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius plans to add another $162 million to the $2 billion allocated for EHRs.

Did we just hear the cash register ring like the bells of Notre Dame?

“We’re in [...]

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Don’t be paper thin, go digital
All we hear nowadays is electronic health records. EHRs are all the rage as the federal government tries to make everyone go digital by 2011.
But, don’t stop there. Your printer probably has a scanner and it can produce more money than if you created Benjamins straight from the printer.
The demand [...]

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The mean-sided part of us says 1 in 6 doesn’t think their electronic health record software will meet the 2011 deadline, according to a federal government-funded report of 1,400 health care providers.

Meanwhile, who knows how many of the positive ones really won’t be working. Quite a few we suspect, meaning the real number is [...]

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The Huffington Post tells a a toe of woe. One worth repeating because it cost a nine-physician Florida practice more than $400,000 to learn it.
Robert Cameron told the website his practice bought an electronic medical records system from Acermed, a California company. The EMR didn’t work well; in fact so badly the company was sued [...]

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All the media talks about is electronic health records. Turns out reality hasn’t matched the hype yet.
A study by the Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital and George Washington University shows less than 2 percent of hospitals are completely using electronic health records and less than 8 percent have even started.
Why? Medicare isn’t [...]

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