EHR Experts

This week, the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates adopted new policies regarding health IT security breaches, government subsidies for electronic health records and open-source EHR systems, Modern Healthcare reports (Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare, 6/17).
The group announced the new guidelines during its annual meeting in Chicago (HealthDay News/Modern Medicine, 6/16).
Security Breaches
The new AMA policy offers guidance [...]

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By Don A. Solberg, MD, Kathryn L Houck and Jim Roberts

Successful electronic health record (EHR) adoption not only improves quality of care by making patient information easily accessible, it also provides valuable clinical decision support. In addition, organizations benefit from streamlined operations — enabling physicians to spend less time on charting and documentation, and [...]

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