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May 17, 2014

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AMA says Meaningful Use requirements and penalties for EHRs discourage physicians

The American Medical Association is calling for major reforms to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Meaningful Use incentive program for EHRs. » Full article

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EHR interoperability should be ONC's priority, vendors say

EHR vendors and other healthcare IT stakeholders contested and criticized new certification rulesproposed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for 2015 in a Health IT Policy Committee hearing.
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How health information exchanges work to increase interoperability

Experts say that fewer than 40% of physician’s offices have the ability to share that information with other providers via a health information exchange (HIE), and many physicians don’t know what HIEs provide. » Full article

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