Seth Flam, Becker's Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management
“Many healthcare providers who are transitioning from paper charts to electronic health records need help understanding how to work with the paper charts they built over their many years in practice.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Chances are, if you’re managing a hospital’s EHR workflow, someone still needs paper, and it’s a hassle moving data from paper into the EHR. Maybe someone is using intake forms for inpatients, or signed consents for same-day surgery patients.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“During the change to an electronic medical record system, the focus for many practices is on how data will be collected, stored and analyzed going forward. But in most cases, there are many years’ worth of historical data in paper files that physicians will need post-EMR.
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Michelle Paster, Iron Mountain
“Nearly 54% of hospital executives cite physician adoption of EMRs to be their greatest challenge in meeting meaningful use.
Are we surprised? The hybrid environment is complex – and did I mention costly? Physicians are struggling to treat patients with records in both paper and electronic formats, in an environment where they availability and completeness of the record is constantly in question. Is the electronic record complete? If not, will I be able to locate the corresponding paper record quickly?
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Stephen H. Hanson, Physicians Practice
“Our hospital has an excellent emergency health record system with all the bells and whistles, and an ability to go completely paperless.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“Physicians like any other professionals, have to deal with record-keeping and other related responsibilities. This is highly important to ensure that patients’ records are kept intact and in a secured manner.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Two electronic health records pioneers that already have earned federal EHR incentive payments stress that a robust risk management program should be an essential component of any movement from paper to electronic records.
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Technology for Doctors Online
“Municipalities with doctor shortages may soon have a new issue. Half of Sarnia’s 150 doctors will retire if forced to convert to electronic health records, predicts the president of the Lambton County Medical Society. “If the government says you have to have a complete paperless office by 2015, I’ll say ‘Goodbye, thank you, this is my license – you take over,’” says Dr. Kunwar Singh.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“Anyone who’s been around the HIT block a few times knows that the conversion from paper to digital records is going to be much uglier than the public thinks. This new study from vendor Iron Mountain, however, offers some details that surprised even a cynic like myself.
The study, which surveyed 200 health information pros, asked them how they were doing with scanning paper medical records and how they expected to use the paper archives in the future.”
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR, 13 July 2011
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Nearly one-fourth of the 200 facilities that responded to a new survey conducted by document management and storage firm Iron Mountain said they are spending $100 million or more to scan paper documents. What’s more, 36 percent of those hospitals plan to hold onto their paper records after they’re digitized.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Wednesday marks the one year anniversary since CMS set the meaningful use criteria for electronic health records. And while that has helped drive adoption, a high percentage of hospitals report they expect to continue to treat patient using paper records for up to five more years.
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AMS
“Every hospital in central Ohio has signed up with a nonprofit group that will help doctors switch from paper to electronic health records.
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EMR Daily News
“One year after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) set criteria for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records, 70 percent of hospitals expect to claim federal subsidies for meeting stage one requirements.
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Susan Jaffe, iWatch News
“In Dr. Sandra Berglund’s well-stocked waiting room, there’s a box of children’s toys and picture books and, on either side of a magazine rack, framed photographs of sacred places: the stadiums of the Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians.
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Ron Sterling, KevinMD
“The transition from paper to EHR is a major policy decision that can have repercussions on patient service, your operations and even your medical professional liability (MPL).
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Craig Byer, Health IT Pulse
“A study conducted by the Medical Group Management Association suggests that a loss of productivity is the biggest concern among doctors who are switching from paper health records to electronic health records (EHRs). Some 4,588 practices representing approximately 120,000 physicians completed the online survey.
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Richard A. Marini, San Antonio
“While many industries were going digital over the past decade, the medical community, by and large, held steadfast to dead-tree paperwork.
Now, with a push from $27 billion in incentives in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, that’s beginning to change.
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Eric Van De Graaff, Cardiology Blog
“Our multispecialty clinic is in the process of converting our standard paper charts to computerized files by adopting an electronic medical record (EMR) system. To say the least, this conversion has been the source of many gray hairs and stomach ulcers for nearly all personnel involved and raises the hackles of our doctors more than almost any other topic.
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Laura Ungar, Courier-Journal
“Thousands of patient charts fill the shelves at Kaplan Barron Pediatric Group — “paper everywhere,” Dr. Emily Johnson says.
Electronic medical records could rein in the clutter, make charts more legible and better track care, she said, but the Bardstown Road practice isn’t quite ready to take that step into the digital age.
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Robin Lloyd, Scientific American
“In medicine, there’s the patient and there’s the chart. And the chart is paper.
That’s the stereotype. Actually, about 20 to 30 percent of all primary care physicians in the nation now use basic electronic health records, according to David Blumenthal, a Harvard Medical School professor who was the national coordinator for health information technology in the Obama Administration until a week ago.
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