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Written by Pam Baker
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Monday, 09 March 2009 15:56 |
 Even the most stalwart traditionalists in the physician realm recognize that the paper file’s days are numbered. The shelves and shelves of manila folders, each arrayed with color-coded tabs and name adhesives, are disappearing from their timeless position behind the receptionist where they lumbered to the ceiling like silent guardians of the exam rooms.
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Written by Pam Baker
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 18:00 |
 Clinical information systems have become more connected to remote services while privacy regulations continue to be a cause for concern. “Protecting confidential data online is of increasing importance to organizations across a broad range of sectors. With HIPAA and other patient privacy measures in place, healthcare organizations are under increasing scrutiny to safeguard private health information,” said Sanjay Mehta, senior vice president for Breach Security. |
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Written by Pam Baker
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Saturday, 06 December 2008 08:50 |
 2008 accelerated “doctor-squeeze” – a relatively recent phenomenon that financially and emotionally pressures doctors between government and insurance mandates, and patient expectations. Costly technology purchases could no longer be postponed by doctors in 2008, even while an ugly recession eroded patients’ ability to pay. And, insurance restrictions on care delivery further zapped physician morale.
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Written by Pam Baker
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 05:05 |
 Perhaps no other field has been as grossly over-burdened by technology as the physician practice. “A big challenge for non-institutional providers is funding; they are struggling to fund their own IT investments like e-prescribing, and EMR systems and are getting more pressure from Washington all the time to invest in these technologies,” says Carl Doty, principal analyst at Forrester Research.
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Written by Jeff Merron
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 18:00 |
 When MedTech Journal last looked into billing systems, a little more than a year ago, practitioners had several major concerns -- most notably, the impending (or, in some offices, recent) transition from paper-based to electronic medical records (EMR), and a steady slide in reimbursements which, noted Coker Group COO Keith Solinsky, had "been steadily declining over the last three to five years." Obviously, not much can (or has) changed since October 2007, and related trends in billing have continued as well.
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