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		<title>ePrescribing and PQRI: Are You Leaving Money on the Table?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the time approaches when potential financial incentives for the widespread use of electronic medical records (EMR) finally kick in, there is increasing excitement and anxiety among medical practices. Unfortunately, there is also a lot of confusion.
What is the difference between the financial incentives from the Stimulus Bill and bonuses from ePrescribing or those from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/2010/03/15/erx-and-pqri-incentives/</link>
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		<title>Are EMRs Bad For Your Health?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an article on the Huffington Post, the FDA is quoted as saying that errors attributed to the use of electronic medical record systems were responsible for dozens of injuries and six patient deaths. This, say critics of EMR, flies in the face of the assumption that adoption of EMR/EHR will improve patient safety and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/2010/03/03/emrs-bad-for-health/</link>
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		<title>Bonus Resource: EMR Software Checklist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who are at the stage of EMR implementation where it is time to decide on the EMR software system, we have a new resource which I think you will find very useful.

Medical Practice Trends has partnered with the folks at SoftwareAdvice.com to give you an EMR Software Checklist. They have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/2010/02/11/emr-software-checklist/</link>
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		<title>Results of our Survey: Are You Using EMR?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With just over 100 responses to our EMR survey (and counting), I decided to go ahead and post the results thus far. Reader responses are listed in decreasing order, from most votes to least.
Question #1 &#8211; Our practice is currently using:

EMR on a limited basis &#8211; 30%
EMR to a significant degree &#8211; 26%
ePrescribing only &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/2010/01/26/emr-survey-results/</link>
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		<title>Medical Practice Trends Podcast 6: ePrescribing, PQRI, and ARRA Incentives</title>
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EMR Update 6 &#8211; eRx and PQRI: Are Your Leaving Money on the Table?
This Issue:

How can your practice qualify for &#8216;Stimulus Bill&#8217; financial incentives?
ePrescribing(eRx) &#38; PQRI &#8211; what bonuses can you expect for each?
How do you make a claim?
Find out about PQRI Toolset, a tool that can help you claim bonus payments

(Note: MPT has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/2010/01/12/eprescribing-pqri-incentives/</link>
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		<title>Study: Current EMRs not good for care coordination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the goals of meaningful use and all the related federal spending of health IT is for EMRs to improve care coordination. But the current reimbursement system that&#8217;s heavy on fee-for-service encourages software developers and users alike to focus on documentation of billable events rather than coordination of care, a new study finds.
Read more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/2010/01/07/emr-care-coordination/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Meaningful Use&#8221; will keep healthcare providers busy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we get closer to 2011, the health IT initiatives are heating up. Here&#8217;s a timely article on this subject:
Last week, one day shy of its Dec. 31 2009 deadline, the Dept. of Health and Human Services issued its long-awaited near-final rules defining the &#8220;meaningful use&#8221; requirements doctors and hospitals must meet to cash in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/2010/01/05/meaningful-use-providers-busy/</link>
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		<title>CMS Releases Proposed Meaningful Use Criteria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today a proposed outline for Meaningful Use criteria, in accordance with EMR implementation provisions under the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. These specify some of the guidelines by which physicians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/2009/12/30/cms-meaningful-use-criteria/</link>
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		<title>Take Our Survey: Are You Using EMR?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EMR Implementation &#8211; How do you stack up against your colleagues?
We&#8217;ll post the results in a week or so.
Click the Next button after you answer each question
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		<link>http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/2009/12/22/are-you-using-emr/</link>
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		<title>Computer Network Benefits, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Previously, I described some of the benefits gained from having an office computer network, even if you haven&#8217;t yet implemented an electronic medical records system. At our practice, even as we prepared for EMR, we began to see unexpected benefits. At that time, the thought that a computer network could help improve overall efficiency in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/2009/12/15/more-network-benefits/</link>
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