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This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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Utilizing an EHR to Optimize Pay-for-Performance Participation: A Primary Care Medical Group's Exper

Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PMGraybill Medical Group configured its EHR to improve quality and therefore support successful participation in P4P initiatives. In the first two years of reporting, Graybill earned nearly $463,000 in bonus reimbursements.

Integrating Quality Measures into EHRs: Available Tools and Lessons Learned

Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PMThis session describes how the American Medical Association's Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement has developed standardized methods for integrating quality measures into EHRs and best practices for implementation of quality measures.

The Healthstory Project: Harmony with Clinical Narrative/Structured Data in the EHR

Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PMConventional wisdom dictates that documents are bad and discrete data is good. But the Healthstory project offers a bridge between free-flowing narrative clinical documentation and semantically interoperable data.

EHRCenterpiece for Practice Growth and Profitability

Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThis session will discuss how to implement a fully functional electronic health record in a solo practice and raise profits by 25 percent annually through efficiency and laddering of technologies.

Lessons Learned from Developing a Premier Global EHR

Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThe Department of Defense's Defense Health Information Management System provides one of the largestand most comprehensiveelectronic health records in the world. Subsequently, the DHIMS has experienced several challenges and learned many lessons during the implementation process.

EHR/CPOE Implementation: Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail

Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThe planning process is a key element in the success of any implementation. Ensuring success, building a strong team, preparing for launch, designing deployment strategies and other important considerations will be addressed.

Getting to Stage 6: Lessons Learned from an Urban Medical Center

Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLearn how the Detroit Medical Center addressed the challenges faced getting to HIMSS Analytics' EMR Adoption Model Stage 6 from the CIO's perspective while gaining insights about the implementation process.

Integrating Medical Images and the EHRthe Time Is Now

Wednesday, March 3, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMThe U.S. Health Information Technology initiative is beginning planning for an interoperable nationwide health information system. The importance and inclusion of medical images needs to be considered from the onset.

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Cardiovascular Business
Q&A: MedAxiom CEO explores key trends in cardiologist, cardiovascular surgeon compensation

Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.

Cardiovascular Business
Payment cuts and beyond: Key takeaways for cardiologists from the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

AI in Healthcare
A modest proposal to rally AI regulators around a simple game plan

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”