Tag: EMRs

22Jul, 2017

Healthcare’s Disruptive Transition – Part 3

By: Charity Darby | Tags: EHRs, EMRs, health plan executives, Labs, patients, PCP, PWeR

Recently, Quest Diagnostics (a laboratory services company) and Inovalon (a cloud-based storage company) sponsored a survey of 302 primary care physicians (PCP) and 150 health plan executives (HPE). We could say the findings surprised us however, we cannot. Some of the key points that we noticed were: Nearly 70% of the physicians surveyed noted that they were “willing to spend more time using technology if their EHRs could yield insight unique to their patients.” This key area has driven our search for more connected information. Today, EHRs can provide the caregiver a […]
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19May, 2017

EHRs: We Have Barely Scratched the Surface

By: Charity Darby | Tags: cloud-based, decision support, EHRs, Electronic Health Records, EMRs, health care technology, MACRA, patient care, patient centered, PWeR, SaaS, technology

For the last six years, the rush to install electronic healthcare records (EHR) in the entire United States healthcare industry, has been driven almost exclusively by the U.S. government’s proverbial “carrot and stick” approach. Originally, it offered $30 billion (USD) in incentives that one day in the not-too-distant future will be deemed wasted – this was the “carrot.” The “stick” was the mandated reductions or penalties in reimbursement if providers did not comply. Today that penalty is 3% of all government paid healthcare, increasing to 5% in 2019. We must […]
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Healthcare’s Disruptive Transition – Part 3

EHRs: We Have Barely Scratched the Surface