Doctors spending over $32,000 on health information technology

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Doctors spending over ,000 on health information technology
Medical groups need to spend a lot of money to outfit, maintain and manage health information technology in their practices—more than $ 32,500 per year in for every single full-time doctor in the practice, according to a recent study. Furthermore, that …
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A needs assessment of health information technology for improving care coordination in three leading patient-centered medical homes
Objective We investigated ways that patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) are currently using health information technology (IT) for care coordination and what types of health IT are needed to improve care coordination. Materials and Methods A multi …
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Op-Ed: Breaking Through Healthcare’s Aversion to Change

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Op-Ed: Breaking Through Healthcare’s Aversion to Change
Even technology that has been adopted, such as electronic health records (EHRs), contribute to a fragmented healthcare system that makes sharing information cumbersome and inefficient. Take for example the wildly successful EPIC EHR. Currently, 190 million …
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Electronic Health Records May Help Customize Medical Treatments
Chances are your doctor has stopped taking notes with pen and paper and moved to computer records. That is supposed to help coordinate your care. Increasingly, researchers are also exploring these computerized records for medical studies and gleaning facts …
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Electronic Health Records & Your Data: Where Does It All Go?
Technology allows doctors to view their patient’s data at the touch of a screen. Viewing records through an electronic health record (such as a radiology information system,) they are able to swiftly access past medical history and vital imaging that could …
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VGCC adds online associate of science degree

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VGCC adds online associate of science degree
VOLT courses are for adult learners who need an online-only educational experience. VGCC already offers another college transfer degree, the associate in arts, in VOLT, along with degrees in business administration, criminal justice, medical office …
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Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department Punjab 2016 Apply Online
Here at this job page you will get the job offer from Jobs in Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department Punjab 2016 Apply Online is looking to appoint the applicants for the various vacancies which includes Executive Director Implementation and …
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Kaplan Continuing Education Fills Demand for Online Training and Certificate in Advance Medical Coding
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL–(Marketwire – February 14, 2011) – Kaplan Continuing Education (KCE), a leader in continuing education online, has developed an online training certificate for advanced medical coding. In today’s medical profession it is becoming an …
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Latest Content Management Systems News

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I Want To Build A Website. Do I Need a Content Management System (CMS)?
Since everyone has blogs and profile pages these days, you may want to create a website of your very own. Do you need a content management system (CMS) to make life easier, or is the old system of updating a file manually and uploading it to your server …
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How to Choose a Website Content Management System
Before you pick a content management system for your website, consider the scope and type of projects the CMS is supposed to manage. Contrary to what you may have read, or what’s been “scientifically calculated” to the hundredth decimal point or plotted on …
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Latest Learning Management Systems News

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Global Enterprise Learning Management Systems (LMS) Market, Forecast to 2022
Enterprise learning management systems (LMS) serve as an excellent means to deliver multimedia and interactive course content to today’s generation of digitally connected employees. The global LMS market crossed $ 1.63 billion in revenue in 2016 and is …
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Open edX: The open source learning management system for corporations and non-profits
This month marks the third birthday of edX, the online learning platform developed jointly by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In that short time, usage of the edx.org site has exploded. Over 4 million students have taken …
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The Best LMS (Learning Management Systems) for 2016
E-learning has become a big business. A Docebo report anticipates that e-learning will grow to a $ 50 billion industry this year, thanks to double-digit growth in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Although massive open online courses (MOOCs …
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Benefits of the Cloud LMS – Is it the future of Learning Management Systems?
Learning is crucial for corporations, who need to acquire newer skills and knowledge on a continuous basis. This has generated tremendous interest and adoption of Learning Management Systems (LMSs) among corporations over the last decade or so. However …
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Lifestyle: Coconut improves sex life

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Lifestyle: Coconut improves sex life
According to Wikipedia, given proper care and growing conditions … coconut water contains many minerals that are helpful for male sexual health and overall health. It detailed: “As a matter of fact, it’s not just for men, particularly older men …
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Wikipedia’s medical content: A new era of collaboration
Examples of this include Wikipedia Zero which has brought access to health content without data charges to 600 million cellphone customers and Offline Medical Wikipedia which has seen more than 50,000 downloads in the last few months. Older offline …
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Healthcare fixes

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Healthcare fixes
Sometimes a large and complicated problem, like healthcare insurance, can be solved by breaking the problem into parts. Insurance participants fall into four groups: Those on Medicare, those on Medicaid, those with pre-exisiting conditions who can’t get …
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Hillary Clinton hits Trump on gender diversity, lauds health care resistance efforts
Giving the keynote address at the Professional Business Women of California Conference in San Francisco, Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, addressed gender inequality, including a moment earlier in the day in which White House Press …
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When It Comes to Collaboration, Technology Is Overrated

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When It Comes to Collaboration, Technology Is Overrated
Organizations tend to believe in collaboration as a means to make employees more productive and improve the way the institutions work. However, most businesses and vendors selling collaboration tools go about it the wrong way, according to David Coleman …
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Form 8-K EMISPHERE TECHNOLOGIES For: Mar 29
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below): ☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 …
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LRMC selects Allscripts as health information technology partner

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LRMC selects Allscripts as health information technology partner
Lakeway Regional Medical Center (LRMC), a new physician/patient-focused acute care hospital in suburban Austin, has selected Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) as its health information technology partner to create a world-class care delivery infrastructure.
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Trump deflects blame for health care fiasco, staying his course toward disaster
Greatest technology known … putting unlimited access to information into the hands of all, these technologies beat the pipeline because hell, even the pipeline builders need computers to, well, build the pipeline. 2. Medical Advances: From the X-ray …
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Health Information Technology: What’s in a Name?
Healthcare workers who apply health information tools and systems generally do so in a clinical setting. As such, they need to have a basic understanding of both health science and computer science… both medical terminology and computer terminology.
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Online continuing medical education (CME) for GPs: does it work? A systematic review

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Online continuing medical education (CME) for GPs: does it work? A systematic review
Numerous studies have assessed the effectiveness of online continuing medical education (CME) designed to improve healthcare professionals’ care of patients. The effects of online educational interventions targeted at general practitioners (GP), however …
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Schwertner Asks Medical Schools to Consider Graduate Medical Education
Over the last decade, as more new medical schools have come online and the number of medical school graduates … % of doctors who complete their medical school and graduate medical education in Texas opt to practice in the state permanently.
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Mint Medical Education Launches its First Online ObGyn CME Ultrasound Training Course
Mint Medical Education Launches its First Online ObGyn CME Ultrasound Training Course — SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — 2013 Mint Medical Education Launches its First Online ObGyn CME Ultrasound Training Course Company Merging Best Practices …
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