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• Watch Out For These 3 Help Desk Red Flags

  4/3/2018

  Clinically focused EHR technical support is an often-overlooked necessity for health systems in the evolving value-based care landscape. IT help desks are crucial to value-based care revenue models simply because they help providers be more productive, reduce costly errors and can improve the patient experience. In fact, 85 percent of clinicians’ patient care delivery is impeded by subpar tech support, while 89 percent of physicians and 77 percent of nurses feel more loyal to an organization when advanced tech support delivers a high-quality end-user experience.

• Health Plans See Opportunity In Outcomes-Based Contracts, Finds New Survey

  10/19/2017

  Escalating drug costs are compelling many states, including New York, to develop and implement policy solutions to stem its rise. In fact, earlier this year, New York became the first state to place a cap on drug spending growth in its Medicaid program. By Caroline Pearson, Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy, Avalere Health

• EHR Failure: What's A Practice To Do?

  11/15/2017

  Physician dissatisfaction with EHRs has been well-documented in recent years, as has the growth of the EHR replacement market. In Kalorama Information’s report, The State of the EMR Market in 2017, the authors estimate that approximately 15 percent of physicians are seeking EHR replacement systems in order to mitigate frustrations with awkward and non-intuitive interfaces and functionality gaps.

• Dedicated Recording Devices More Efficient For Dictation And Clinical Workflows

  10/24/2016

  Four out of five physicians use smartphones for patient care-related activities. Considering the ubiquity of smartphones in our culture, that finding is not very surprising. What is concerning is physicians who dictate may be using a voice recording application on their smartphone to capture patient care notes, content for letters, and other sensitive data to be later transcribed.

• AHIMA 2009 Video Booth Visits

  10/27/2009

  Ken Congdon, chief editor at Health IT Outcomes, shares conversations with vendors while at AHIMA 2009.
• Why HIT Is Important For Fighting The Opioid Crisis

  4/26/2019

  The opioid crisis is a widespread problem in the United States and elsewhere. However, HIT is helping us make strides toward conquering it.