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For these patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, EHR, medical device integration and patient engagement are seemingly one and the same. (RT @EHRIntel: How can #EHRs engage patients by integrating medical devices?

Providers have a lot of choices when it comes to EHR/EMR adoption. A cloud based EHR.EMR system could be the right choice for your practice.

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the EMR Effect: Transforming Healthcare #onc #healthit #ehr #emr (فوائد استخدام الملف الطبي الإلكتروني | #انفوقراف
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You can find a lot of organizations doing research on health IT adoption. Here are results from 3 organizations gathering information to make sense of it.

RT @EMRDailyNews: Healthcare Innovation Council Calls Out CMS’ EHR Meaningful Use Program http://t.co/QmdNKumCY1

Changing or delaying Stage 3 of meaningful use would only harm patients, says the Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH) and the Campaign for Better Care (CBC) in response to a recent white paper released by a group of six Republican senators.

 

As cities become more conscious of their environmental and social impact, smart growth has become a ubiquitous umbrella term for a slew of principles to which designers and planners are encouraged to adhere. NewUrbanism.org has distributed 10 points that serve as guides to development that are similar to both AIA’s Local Leaders: Healthier Communities through Design and New York City’s Active Design Guidelines: Promoting Physical Activity and Health in Design.  Planners all appear to be on the same page in regards to the nature of future development.  But as Brittany Leigh Foster of Renew Lehigh Valley points out, these points tend to be vague; they tell us “what” but they do not tell us “how”.  10 Rules for Smarter Smart Growth by Bill Adams of UrbDeZine San Diego enumerates how to achieve the various design goals and principles that these various guides encourage.

 

 

“These days, a lot of projects are crashing through the gates of community plans and dashing existing neighborhood character under the banners of smart growth or transit oriented development. Typically, such projects are simply high density or near transit corridors, or sometimes they include gratuitous green space and walking paths.  However, they fail in many of the finer points of smart growth, new urbanism, or transit oriented development.” – Bill Adams

 

This introduction makes a most poignant point about how runaway development is possible under the guise of “smart growth” by using specific principles while ignoring important factors that contribute to community development.  Adams begins by discouraging the use of the term NIMBY.  ”Every criticism or opposition to a high density project is now labeled as NIMBYism, with little further discussion of community concerns.”  This behavior dismisses community concerns and fails to create compromise between developers and affected communities.  Adams also notes that community involvement in the planning process of future development is crucial to accounting for community needs and respecting the kind of development that has gone in to building existing neighborhoods.

 

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Via Chuck Sherwood, Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc

Yesterday, CMS and ONC posted a joint fact sheet breaking down progress made to date in health IT adoption by providers since the passing of the HITECH Act.

ONC Original Data Briefs
ONC has created several original data briefs providing information about EHR adoption, progress towards meaningful use, and current trends in health information technology and public health.

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