The Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology has outlined five steps for physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers to transition to an electronic health record platform if they have not started already.
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Ultrasound guided injections can position pain practices with several clinical and business advantages, says Neil Chatterjee, MD, a pain physician with Virginia Spine Institute in Reston, Virginia. "An ultrasound is a strategic addition to many practices, as it can improve…
David Blumenthal, MD, former head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, recently wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that the success of the HITECH Act and other health IT initiatives seem "inevitable, in…
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