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Category Archives: gloStream News
GOP Bill No Reason to Postpone EMR Implementation
Republican bill that imperils funding for meaningful use incentives has a long way to go before it becomes law—if it ever does. President Obama may have celebrated an emerging health care IT system in his State of the Union address, but at the same time, Republican lawmakers were producing a bill that imperils funding for [...]
The Benefits of a Paperless Practice
Doctors can track patient location from admission to discharge, access and share daily schedules and calendars, order labs, refill prescriptions, and more. An April 2010 New York Times article, Doctors and Patients, Lost in Paperwork, says that an average physician spends as much time doing paperwork as he or she does with the patient. “Paperwork, [...]
Posted in gloStream News Tagged 2011Feb02, CCHIT, gloEMR, Microsoft technology, paperless practice Comments closed
gloEMR Features Meet Tomorrow’s EMR Demands
gloEHR offers five key features of tomorrow’s EMR: interoperability, scalability, easy maintenance, a user-friendly interface, and the potential for mobile computing. As more and more EMRs come onto the market, it’s becoming more difficult to choose one that will remain usable well into the future. According to one IT consulting firm, health care providers should [...]
Other Physicians Are Getting EHRs Ready—Are You?
The rate of electronic health record (EHR) adoption among U.S. physicians is set to double from 2009 to 2012. Don’t get left behind – choose an IT company that can help you do it right. According to new analysis from 2010Oct02 firm Frost & Sullivan, the U.S. ambulatory EHR market, which was valued at $1.3 [...]
Posted in gloStream News Tagged 2010Oct02, electronic health record, gloStream, IT company Comments closed
ONC Almost Ready to Announce EHR Certification Bodies
It looks as if we’ll soon know the names of the authorized testing and certification bodies (ATCBs) for electronic health records (EHRs). ATCBs will be the only authorities that can certify EHR products for meaningful use (and thus allow health care providers to earn American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA, incentives). According to the [...]
Also posted in Healthcare, Healthcare News Tagged 2010Oct01, ATCBs, Certified Health IT Product List, CHPL, EHRs, Health Information Technology, ONC Comments closed
Docs Will Start Receiving Incentive Payments in May 2011
Physicians can sign up for the EHR incentive program in January 2011. To begin receiving payments, they must have demonstrated meaningful use of certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for 90 days—which means the first incentive payments will likely go out in May 2011. Now that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released [...]
Making Sense of the Economic Stimulus and EMR Incentives
Join Todd Krieger, gloStream’s Marketing and Communications Team Leader, for a discussion about the economic stimulus and the EMR incentives included in the law. Todd will cover the specific requirements for EMR use, the payment schedule for Medicare and Medicaid providers, and the requirements necessary for doctors to receive their stimulus funding. Questions and answers [...]
gloStream’s gloEMR Version 5.0 Receives 08 CCHIT Certification
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI – The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology today announced that gloStream’s product gloEMR version 5.0 is a CCHIT Certified 08 Ambulatory EHR additionally certified for Cardiovascular Medicine and Child Health and meets the Certification Commission’s electronic health record (EHR) criteria for office-based use. Ambulatory EHRs are designed for physician offices and [...]
EMRs Benefit Even Small Providers, Says Survey