by Megan Hueter | Jan 7, 2018 | Electronic Health Records, Health IT, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Happy 2018 to everyone. This article is about my predictions in Health IT for 2018. This should be an interesting year for healthcare overall and we should see continued strong investments in Health IT. Information Technology provides the tools and processes for the...
by Jack Hueter | Dec 15, 2017 | Electronic Health Records, Health IT
My last article reviewed MACRA for 2017/2018. According to the article in HFMA by Julian Harris, there are some activities that can help build a successful MACRA program no matter where a physician organization is on its MACRA journey. Following are ideas on some...
by Jack Hueter | Nov 30, 2017 | Electronic Health Records, Events, Health IT
The Alliance for Health Policy** hosted a summit in Washington D.C. in early November to discuss the future of healthcare delivery and the role that the healthcare workforce will play in that delivery. The panel of experts discussed that healthcare is at a crossroads...
by Jack Hueter | Jul 27, 2017 | Acute EMRs, Athenahealth, Cerner, CMS, Electronic Health Records, Epic, Health IT, MEDITECH
EMR Adoption – Acute Care Hospitals My last article covered EMR adoption in the Ambulatory space. This is a review of EMR adoption in Acute Care Hospitals and the prominent vendors of EMRs in the hospital market. According to ONC Health Information Technology,...
by Jack Hueter | Jul 22, 2017 | CMS, Electronic Health Records, Health IT, Patient Data Access, Patient Engagement, Patient Portals, Patient Satisfaction
As we age and make more visits to doctors, many of my peers (and myself) have taken charge of gathering our health information. We have made it a standard practice to always request copies of test results- blood, colonoscopy, mammograms. However, when trying to access...
by Jack Hueter | Jul 21, 2017 | CMS, Electronic Health Records, Health IT, Patient Engagement, Patient Satisfaction, Physician Wait Times
A few weeks ago I posted an article about physician burnout. In that article, eighty percent of the physicians surveyed said they were overextended and didn’t have time to see additional patients. You may recall that 21% of their time is spent on non-clinical...
