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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"HITECH Act"”.
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Business model and strategy analysis for radiologists to use electronic health records (EHR)
… President Obama signed into law a measure, the HITECH Act (part of the stimulus package), that incentivizes healthcare providers to use electronic health records (EHR) in care delivery to improve quality, efficiency, safety, and reduce cost. The meaningful use (MU) program's Stage 1 requirements …
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Applying systems thinking to healthcare data cybersecurity
Since the HITECH Act of 2009, adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in US healthcare organizations has increased significantly. Along with the rapid increase in usage of EHR, cybercrimes are on the rise as well. Two recent cybercrime cases from early 2015, the Anthem and Premera …
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The Unintended Consequences of the Adoption of Electronic Medical Record Systems on Healthcare Costs
… is that there could be an increase in “upcoding” activities by hospitals. Upcoding deals with patients being diagnosed in such a manner as to increase the reimbursement of hospitals by inappropriately increasing the patient’s case mix. Using the roll-out of an auditing program as a natural …
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What Work? Quasi-Experiments in Cybersecurity Policy Interventions
… Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Section 5 enforcements against Wyndham Hotels, and the New York Department of Financial Services (NY DFS) cybersecurity regulations. I assessed each regulatory intervention as a quasi-experiment, …
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Causal Pattern Mining in Highly Heterogeneous and Temporal EHRs Data
… reducing the associated costs. The HITECH Act, proposes to spend close to \$30 billion dollars on creating a nationwide repository of electronic Health Records (EHRs). Such a repository would consist of patient attributes such as demographics, laboratories test results, vital …
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Errors and adverse consequences as a result of information technology use in healthcare : an integrated review of the literature
… an integral component of healthcare today. The HITECH Act (2009) and Meaningful Use objectives stand to bring wide-sweeping adoption and implementations of HIT in small, medium and large sized healthcare organizations across the country. Though recent literature has provided evidence for the …
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An Integrative Review of the Literature on Technology Transformation in Healthcare
… the likelihood that reform policies will in fact transform. This study evaluates evidence of technology transformation in healthcare through an integrative review of the healthcare and business literature, guided by the theory of punctuated equilibrium (TPE). TPE describes the process of …