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6 Reasons to Switch your EHR in 2026

Why 2026 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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NextGen Becomes a Telehealth Business Overnight

With its recent acquisition of two companies, Medfusion and OTTO Health, NextGen Healthcare becomes a telehealth business almost overnight! NextGen looks to improve telemedicine adoption through easy integration. Many telemedicine platforms…
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EHR Corporate Responsibility

People today want to do business with and use products from companies that are stellar corporate citizens. This seems heightened in the healthcare space where the expectations are higher for those who already work towards helping patients. There…
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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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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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White Paper: Integrating Telemedicine into EHRs

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Why is it so Hard to Integrate Telemedicine into EHRs? Part 4

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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…
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Why is it so Hard to Integrate Telemedicine into EHRs? Part 1

Part 1:  Which EHR? From a telemedicine vendor’s viewpoint, the first challenge to integration is “which EHR”? There are more than 1,000 implementations of EHRs and not all of them follow recognized standards such as HL7 v2, HL7 v3, FHIR,…