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Guest blog - Attention doctors and vendors: Selling patient data without informed consent is now a federal crime
Date: May 12, 2010
Another misguided, uninformed EHR vendor will discount the price of EHR software for doctors willing to sell patient data! According to CEO Jonathan Bush, "Athena might be able to halve the amount that physicians pay to use its EHR."
Read » Does the EHR incentive program favor licensed software companies?
Date: May 11, 2010 Jonathan Bush, CEO of Athenahealth, said that the federal stimulus funds for EHR adoption give an unfair advantage for the traditional software license companies. He has a point... sort of.
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Physician survey: EHRs a bright spot in uncertain times
Date: Mar 29, 2010 A recent survey conducted by health IT vendor athenahealth and Sermo, an online physician community, painted a pretty grim picture of how physicians are feeling about the future of medicine. The survey involving 1,000 physicians point to discontent from the quality of healthcare delivery to the burden of payer administration and reimbursement.
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Early ARRA vendor winners
Date: Jan 12, 2010 ARRA has been good to Allscripts, as evidenced by the results of its second quarter financials. The company expects to see even better numbers in the coming quarters as adoption and acceleration of health IT grows. Analysts agree that the incentives are driving adoption.
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KLAS survey shows confidence among healthcare providers in meeting meaningful use criteria, but there’s a lot of work to be done
Date: Jan 07, 2010 Amid the rash of studies the last few months about the inability of EHRs to deliver the goods comes a welcomed report by KLAS. Eighty-five percent of healthcare providers who responded to KLAS' survey believe their ambulatory EMRs will help them meet for the 2011 deadlines per the meaningful use criteria that were proposed in July.
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Keep it coming: IBM Global Financing partners with health IT vendors
Date: Dec 23, 2009 IBM Global Financing, the lending and leasing business segment of IBM, announced financing partnerships with four health IT vendors to speed the adoption of EMRs. It's a step in the right direction.
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The Sunny von Bülow bill
Date: Dec 17, 2009 Jonathan Bush, chairman and CEO of Athenahealth, was interviewed in the Wall Street Journal last weekend and spoke his colorful mind about the state of the healthcare industry and the political forces that are trying to reshape it.
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Guaranteed HITECH Act bonus payment: Sign me up
Date: Sep 16, 2009 For providers who have hesitated implementing an EHR because of confusion, distrust or discontent, you may be patting yourself on the back. You knew there was a reason to wait. athenahealth announced a guaranteed HITECH Act bonus payment under the 2011 program year if you use its athenaClinicals EHR system.
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