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Electronic Medical Records Boot Camp
2025-06-30 - 2025-07-01    
10:30 am - 5:30 pm
The Electronic Medical Records Boot Camp is a two-day intensive boot camp of seminars and hands-on analytical sessions to provide an overview of electronic health [...]
AI in Healthcare Forum
2025-07-10 - 2025-07-11    
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Jeff Thomas, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, shares how the migration not only saved the organization millions of dollars but also led to [...]
28th World Congress on  Nursing, Pharmacology and Healthcare
2025-07-21 - 2025-07-22    
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
To Collaborate Scientific Professionals around the World Conference Date:  July 21-22, 2025
5th World Congress on  Cardiovascular Medicine Pharmacology
2025-07-24 - 2025-07-25    
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
About Conference The 5th World Congress on Cardiovascular Medicine Pharmacology, scheduled for July 24-25, 2025 in Paris, France, invites experts, researchers, and clinicians to explore [...]
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AI in Healthcare Forum
10 Jul 25
New York
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Mostashari: We have to take a look at EHR benefit Information Deliberately

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Implementing technology should be a cost of doing business for healthcare providers, as it is in other professions, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari. In a frank interview with AAFP News Now, Mostashari also stated that he expected physician dissatisfaction with electronic health records to rise as implementation goes beyond the early adaptors, and said that physicians won’t necessarily see a return on investment if they’re involved in fee-for-service medicine, since much of the benefit of EHRs is focused on quality, safety and engagement, which aren’t reflected in reimbursement.

Mostashari also said that physicians won’t see productivity gains if all they’re doing is replicating their existing paper processes, noting that ONC “needs to look at the data carefully.” Some of the attention to EHRs are skewed or “counterintuitive” in that while more than 80 percent of studies show that the technology improves patient care, he said. Interview