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6 Reasons to Switch your EHR in 2019

Why 2019 may be the year for small to mid-sized medical practices to switch their EHR for the better. If your EHR has ever caused you so much frustration that you can picture yourself reenacting the infamous scene from the movie “Office…
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Will Amazon be the catalyst for telemedicine taking off?

An exclusive interview with almost 25 year telemedicine pioneer (yes, telemedicine has really been around that long) C. Rich Abbruscato with insight into what no one else is admitting. EHRGuide:    Can you briefly tell me about your background? Rich:  …
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Why Isn’t Telemedicine Achieving Cost Reductions?

Any discussion about cost savings to the health care sector should logically start by identifying the high cost areas. Then examine possibilities to reduce those costs. In the US, the first part is easy. It is estimated that 80% of health care…
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An Overview of the Most Notable EHR Awards in 2018

The year 2018 will be one for the record books in the EHR industry. We put together a master list of the most notable EHR Awards for some of the top EHR companies. You won't be surprised to see the larger, well-known EHRs like Epic, Cerner…
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Allscripts “satisfied” with Q1 & Practice Fusion now charging

Based on Allscript's recent Q1 earnings call, President Rick Poulton is "satisfied" with the Q1 results. While he was nudged on his choice of wording during the Q&A portion of the call, he didn't budge. With a slew of deals that were discussed…
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What is the skinny on Practice Fusion charging?

It had been reported by CNBC that Practice Fusion would have an announcement in March regarding their business model. This same report stated that current customers that have used Practice Fusion as a free EHR solution, will now be charged $100…
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Why is it so Hard to Integrate Telemedicine into EHRs? Part 3

Part 3:  A 20/80 Approach to a Telemedicine-to-EHR Interface In Part 2 of this series, we gave some examples that showed the impact of having no standards and having complex standards in choice driven markets.  If a reasonable standard is…
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Why is it so Hard to Integrate Telemedicine into EHRs? Part 2

Part 2: What not to do. In Part 1 of this series, we reviewed EHR systems and protocols of greatest concern to a telemedicine system seeking to pass clinical information to the EHR. That revealed the confounding situation where the least rigorous…