EMR Adoption Climbing and Expected to be Strong over the next Five Years
Posted by AMS Date: 3 JAN 7:55 am Share
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)...
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Stage 2 of Meaningful Use Moved to 2014
Posted by AMS Date: 27 DEC 10:49 am Share
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...
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Patients Want More Access to, Control of Medical Records
Posted by AMS Date: 20 DEC 7:58 am Share
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...
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Another Client Joins the AMS Community
Posted by AMS Date: 16 DEC 8:00 am Share
American Medical Software is pleased to announce the addition of Audubon Pediatrics from Houma, LA to the AMS client community.
Audubon Pediatrics was extremely thorough in their search for medical software. After gathering information on several electronic medical records systems on the...
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EHR Use Cut Health Care Costs, BCBS Says
Posted by AMS Date: 14 DEC 8:23 am Share
PROVIDENCE – The use of electronic health records in a three-year pilot program lowered health care costs by an average of between 17 and 33 percent, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island announced Monday.
In addition, EHR use was found...
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