Electronic medical records were designed to improve healthcare billing, not patient care, according to an HIT Consultant report.
Meaningful Use program requirements are looking to increase patient engagement, care coordination, clinical quality measures, safety, public health and population health. However, health practices and systems are coming up short on these goals.
Physicians should be tasked with taking care of clinical records, and healthcare information technology should tackle what it does best — billing and accounts receivable improvements, according to the report.
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Meaningful Use program requirements are looking to increase patient engagement, care coordination, clinical quality measures, safety, public health and population health. However, health practices and systems are coming up short on these goals.
Physicians should be tasked with taking care of clinical records, and healthcare information technology should tackle what it does best — billing and accounts receivable improvements, according to the report.
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