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Carrots and Sticks: Electronic Health Records, Meaningful Use, and Your Practice

April 2, 2015

Six years ago Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. With those pieces of legislation came major changes to the way doctors and other healthcare workers would process the information that they work with every day. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) or

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ARRA, compliance, EHR, electronic health records, electronic medical records, EMR, HITECH, incentive, penalty, rule

Clinical Decision Support Systems and Malpractice Risk

February 4, 2015

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) comprise one of the fastest growing and most widely discussed areas of Health Information Technology (HIT) in existence today. CDSSs have been defined as “active knowledge resource that uses patient data to generate case-specific advice which support decision making about individual patients by health professionals, the patients themselves or others concerned

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ARRA, CDSS, health information, HITECH, systems, technology

The 6 Keys to IT Security

October 10, 2014

We here at eQuoteMD had the opportunity this week to attend a HIPAA Workshop in St. Louis, Missouri sponsored by the Keane Insurance Group, Keystone IT Consulting, and the Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard law firm. The focus of this workshop was IT Security, specifically as it applies to the healthcare industry in light of HIPAA and other regulatory laws. While

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: breach, data, electronic health records, hipaa, hipaa risks, HITECH, information technology, IT, legal, Security

Why Telemedicine? What is the Future of the Virtual Appointment?

August 18, 2014

With the recent push to achieve “meaningful use” of EHR, the advent of Accountable Care Organizations, increasing numbers of patients, and other effects of the Accountable Care Act telemedicine is becoming more common and more necessary than ever.  But what is telemedicine exactly?  The American Telemedicine Association defines it as follows: “The use of medical

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: aca, affordable care act, future, hipaa, HITECH, meaningful use, technology, telemedicine, virtual

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