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Marcus Welby, M.D., May Be Healthcare Reform Solution
Marcus Welby may be making a comeback – not to your television screen – but to your doctor’s office. Partisans on both sides of the healthcare reform issue in Congress agree that general practitioners...
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Physicians Offered Incentives to Switch to Electronic Record Keeping
In 2011, physicians will be eligible for extra payments from federal health insurance programs if they implement electronic medical record systems. The extra money is courtesy of President Obama’s...
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Stimulus Bill Releases $1 Billion for Electronic Healthcare Records
The Obama administration has released approximately $1 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus bill. The money is a downpayment on funding access to health information...
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Finding the Right Line Between Healthcare Privacy and Accessibility
One of healthcare’s biggest challenges is balancing the sharing of health information with the need to assure patient privacy. Although privacy has been assured since the implementation of the 1996...
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CMS Issues Revised Guidelines for Electronic Medical Records Adoption
The federal government has issued revised standards for the “meaningful use” of electronic medical records that will financially reward physicians and hospitals who adopt the new technology. According...
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D-Day For Obamacare Means Big Changes For Healthcare
MOBs are getting ready to take center stage as healthcare moves into more of a localized, outpatient setting. By John Driscoll, President, Alter+Care The first of this year was to be Obamacare’s D-Day....
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