Dr. Jen Brull is a family medicine physician in solo practice in Plainville,Kansas. This is her ninth year of private practice in a rural area. She was the first provider in Kansas to successfully attest and receive incentive payments through the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program, and is a “MUVer”—a member of the Meaningful Use Vanguard, a group of local leaders and advisors in the...
A review in the March issue of Health Affairs focusing on the effects of health information technology (health IT). The study found predominantly positive effects on key aspects of care including quality and efficiency. In addition, providers outside of large integrated care networks, the original innovators in health IT, are beginning to implement, evaluate, and achieve benefits from similar systems.
Electronic prescribing is an important component of health information exchange that can save lives, lower costs, and improve care. Evidence of the benefits of health information exchange such as e-prescribing is mounting.
A Massachusetts practice provides lessons gained from four year of experience with an EHR system collecting data elements needed to calculate and report meaningful use clinical quality measures (CQMs) ... Read More
A health center in Oregon serving up to 45,000 patients a year puts an EHR Implementation plan in action to capture patient and clinical information for quality measurement and reporting ... Read More
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