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

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,…