EHR Intelligence September 1, 2017
Kate Monica

Providers need to find health IT companies offering a high degree of usability and integrated solutions during the EHR selection.

While most providers understand the goals of the value-based care system, many still approach EHR selection through a volume-based lens.

According to a post by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, MD, health IT vendors are partially to blame. When advertising a system’s capabilities, health IT companies should begin framing their successes in relation to what their services help hospitals accomplish rather than how popular they are. This is what value-based care was designed to do—push the healthcare industry’s focus away from quantity and toward quality.

Time and again, organizations ranging from HIE networks (DirectTrust) to health IT...

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