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Practice Fusion · February 2, 2012
Analyzing race and ethnicity's role in allergies across the U.S.
You may be asking yourself “Why me?” as your allergies start acting up this spring. It might surprise you to know your race and ethnicity is part of the answer.
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Contributing Writer · January 24, 2012
Should there be national patient identifiers?
One of the challenges in connecting the dots in patient identifiers is linking together all the fragments of health data about a given patient that is scattered widely across many different settings of care – is trying to match patient identities. The practice-internal ID number...
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Contributing Writer · January 17, 2012
Closing the Loop in Health Care Coordination
“Closing the loop” is a term that describes a well-functioning coordinated healthcare delivery system. It implies that clinical information flows easily during a medical referral – the referring clinician is able to let the recipient clinician know the pertinent information about the patient being referred,...
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Contributing Writer · January 12, 2012
EHR Data Will Help Advance Comparative Effectiveness Research
Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) has been an ongoing effort to identify best-practices for health care, based on clinical evidence. The AHRQ defines comparative effectiveness as research “designed to inform health-care decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness, benefits, and harms of different treatment options.”
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Contributing Writer · January 10, 2012
HIPAA Privacy and Security is an Ongoing Task
Many clinicians who have now completed their 2011 EHR Incentive Program attestation may now, feeling a sigh of relief, believe that keeping track of privacy and security is done – that it was a one-time effort needed in order to comply with one of the...
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