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Healthcare IT
Incorporating EHRs offers the promise of better data. With that data, our possibilities are endless. We can spot patterns for an individual, diagnosing and treating conditions sooner, and we can trend population health to help hospitals meet the changing healthcare needs of their area. That is our goal, but we...
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Healthcare IT
Technology is a powerful tool. If used properly, it holds the promise of creating efficiencies and delivering exciting and new capabilities for your organization. We all know that technology exists to serve us and to meet the objectives of our organization, but in many cases, this isn’t reality. It is...
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Healthcare IT
Leading Atlanta-based IT outsourcer responds to growth and enables exclusive customer focus.  ATLANTA, GA (August 26, 2016) – Leading Atlanta IT Service Desk Outsourcing Solutions provider and Healthcare Systems Integrator, Canvas IT, today announced its definitive intent to divide Canvas IT into two independent companies to better focus on customer...
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Healthcare IT
To implement Epic as a hospital’s EHR provider on time and on budget, CIOs should strongly consider hiring a subject matter expert to tackle the integral role of interface manager. Though it’s possible to train existing staff on Epic interoperability, a project of this scope and complexity requires an in-depth...
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Healthcare IT
Integrated EHRs eliminate the need for faxing, mailing and delivering patient records, improve efficiencies and create better outcomes—but only when clinical staff are provided with the full benefits of those systems through fully optimized integration. While integrated EHRs benefit patients across the board, they can be especially beneficial in chronic...
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Healthcare IT
Across the country, electronic health records have been failing to deliver anticipated ROI following initial implementation. This has left many physicians and hospitals struggling to achieve system-wide adoption of EHR platforms, as staffers blame the system for perceived drawbacks and failures. Is the EHR itself responsible for less-than-ideal outcomes, or...
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Healthcare IT
Amid all of the hype surrounding electronic health records in the last few years, it is important to take a moment to remember that EHRs are tools for doing a job, not solutions designed to give a hospital market advantage. They were developed as a means to collect patient information...
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Healthcare IT
Many years ago Epic Systems created a world class Electronic Health Record (EHR) system that made the patient record the center of the health record management universe. 300+ installs (and growing rapidly) later, providers seem to be embracing this idea, with ease of implementation being the main selling point. After...
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Healthcare IT
One of the most critical milestones in an Epic implementation is integrated testing of interfaces, driven by Epic itself. If all modules are not properly interfaced, Epic will not allow the hospital to go live – and these setbacks can cost hospitals hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars....
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Healthcare IT
Does Epic, one of the leading EHR providers for US hospitals have crucial interoperability issues? At first, hospitals executives may feel that they have chosen the wrong solution – that the problem lies not with Epic itself, but rather with the approach they have used to deploy Epic to meet...
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