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	<title>Electronic Medical  Records,  Doctors Medical Software,  Medical Billing,  Stimulus Funding, American Medical Software</title>
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		<title>Another Client Joins the AMS Community</title>
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American Medical Software is pleased to announce the addition of Sinclair Surgical and Breast Clinic from Davenport, FL to the AMS client community.
Sinclair Surgical had been looking for medical software for quite some time before contacting AMS and deciding to schedule a web demonstration with our sales staff. Our fully trained sales staff offers the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americanmedical.com/2012/02/another-client-joins-the-ams-community-23/</link>
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		<title>Study: Electronic Health Records Can Improve Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Electronic health records are helping physicians provide better care for patients with various health conditions. The results discussed below are from a study regarding the effect of electronic health records and the outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Use of electronic health records shows promise for improving care and outcomes in patients with type 2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americanmedical.com/2012/01/study-electronic-health-records-can-improve-care/</link>
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		<title>Another Client Joins the AMS Community</title>
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American Medical Software is pleased to announce the addition of Alissa Abentroth, MD from Helena, MT to the AMS client community.
Dr. Abentroth, like many other AMS clients, was referred to our software through the AMS Referral program. This program rewards individuals with 10% of the purchase cost (up to $1000) should a physician or practice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americanmedical.com/2012/01/another-client-joins-the-ams-community-22/</link>
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		<title>Meaningful Use to Reach New Heights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – “In 2012, meaningful use will soar,&#8221; National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari asserted at the Jan. 10 meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee.
“Meaningful use will continue to be the cornerstone of our activities,” he told committee members. “We can expect to see the numbers continue to rise,” he said of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americanmedical.com/2012/01/mostashari-meaningful-use-to-reach-new-heights/</link>
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		<title>Another Client Joins the AMS Community</title>
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American Medical Software is pleased to announce the addition of Sarasota Children’s Clinic from Sarasota, FL to the AMS client community.
Sarasota Children’s Clinic contacted AMS and scheduled a personalized, online web demonstration of the AMS software. They were impressed with the ability to verify eligibility from within the Medical Management System and were also impressed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americanmedical.com/2012/01/another-client-joins-the-ams-community-21/</link>
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		<title>Electronic Health Records Improve Nursing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10 (UPI) &#8212; U.S. nurses working with electronic health records consistently reported improvements in nursing care and better health outcomes, researchers say.
Lead author Ann Kutney-Lee and co-author Deena Kelly, both of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, said the study involved more than 16,000 nurses working at 316 hospitals in four states.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americanmedical.com/2012/01/electronic-health-records-improve-nursing/</link>
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		<title>Takoma Hospital Implements Electronic Medical Records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GREENEVILLE, Tenn. &#8212; We live in a world surrounded by technology, where we can access most everything from a computer or smartphone, but the medical field is still catching up.  One local hospital is leading the way in Tennessee by implementing electronic medical records.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just not feasible to keep it all on paper anymore,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americanmedical.com/2012/01/takoma-hospital-implements-electronic-medical-records/</link>
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		<title>EMR Adoption Climbing and Expected to be Strong over the next Five Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The deadline for the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has many scrambling to adopt EMR systems before that deadline in order to qualify for the funding.  Incentive funding via HITECH to hospitals and physicians to adopt Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) will stop in 2014.  A pot of $19 billion of incentives is currently acting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americanmedical.com/2012/01/emr-adoption-climbing-and-expected-to-be-strong-over-the-next-five-years/</link>
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		<title>Stage 2 of Meaningful Use Moved to 2014</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health and Human Services has moved the start date for Stage 2 of the electronic health records meaningful use program from 2013 to 2014.
The initial HHS announcement did not make clear which providers were eligible to wait until 2014. The department clarified its position to Health Data Management.
Federal officials this summer had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americanmedical.com/2011/12/stage-2-of-meaningful-use-moved-to-2014/</link>
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		<title>Patients Want More Access to, Control of Medical Records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 19, 2011 — Patients are more enthusiastic about reading what their physicians are writing about them than physicians are about allowing patients to access their electronic health records, according to a study published in the December 20 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. In addition, American military veterans are highly enthusiastic about sharing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americanmedical.com/2011/12/patients-want-more-access-to-control-of-medical-records/</link>
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