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			<title>Hello, It’s Telemedicine Calling.</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 14:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vlada Barlow]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[As I sit in my home office with the security icon blinking on the screen of my company-issued laptop, it dawns on me how much nearly every profession relies on remote communication. From banking, to education, and even to matchmaking, people use technology to communicate with others near and far, often making life changing decisions [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<title>T-Minus 169 days…the Clock is Ticking for New York Providers</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Soble-Lernor and Peter Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mandatory Electronic Prescribing Effective March 27, 2015 This is the headline that jumps off of the page on the New York Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement’s (BNE) website, and March 27 is the drop-dead date, no ifs ands or buts. March 27 is only 169 days away, and all physicians, with few exceptions, must go paperless [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<title>Elements of a Patient-centered Encounter: Enhancing Patient Engagement and Accountability</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Barhams]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Medication Adherence]]></category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Increasingly provider compensation and penalties are associated with the quality of care they deliver to their patients and whether those patients heed their advice. Although there is not a quick fix formula to ensure a patient complies with provider guidance, strategies exist to enhance patient engagement and accountability. Strong patient-provider relationships are associated with better [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<title>VIDEO: AHRQ Highlights Pioneer Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances Study</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, we embarked on a journey that no other health IT company had taken to date: we participated in a study that dramatically shifted the e-prescribing landscape by adding controlled substances as a capability. I am happy to share that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released a video about the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<title>The Value of an Identity Exchange in Healthcare</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Rosenfeld]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Health IT]]></category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Recently, a colleague and I were talking about how times have changed. My colleague is a physician, recently retired from private practice, though he continues to see patients part time in a teaching environment. He is a key individual who has been and continues to be instrumental in the development of several healthcare IT standards [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<title>Improving Provider Behavior to Enhance Prescription Quality</title>
			<link>http://blog.drfirst.com/drfirst/improving-provider-behavior-to-enhance-prescription-quality/</link>
			<comments>http://blog.drfirst.com/drfirst/improving-provider-behavior-to-enhance-prescription-quality/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 16:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Soble-Lernor]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[In this next installment of my blog series on increasing quality in the e-prescribing marketplace I want to focus on the question of provider behavior. As I mentioned in my introduction to this series, there is a tendency to place nearly all of the blame for e-prescribing quality issues squarely on the shoulders of providers, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<title>Communications Strategies that Foster Patient Accountability</title>
			<link>http://blog.drfirst.com/medication-adherence/communications-strategies-that-foster-patient-accountability/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Barhams]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Health literacy, defined as the “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions”,* is a growing concern within the U.S. as more Americans are diagnosed with multiple chronic diseases…chronic diseases that often require complicated self-care. When you factor in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<title>The real key to security in healthcare in an online world</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Rosenfeld]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[In my last blog, I discussed the nature of identity and the reasons why identity management and the establishment of trust are very difficult and complex issues in healthcare and other industries. Identity is only half the problem. The other half, and unfortunately the one to which many incomplete solutions have been posed, is the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<title>Who is your physician and how do you know? Solving questions of identity in healthcare.</title>
			<link>http://blog.drfirst.com/healthit/who-is-your-physician-and-how-do-you-know-solving-questions-of-identity-in-healthcare/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Rosenfeld]]></dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Health IT]]></category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Most of us take the concept of &#8220;identity&#8221; for granted. We know and recognize ourselves, our co-workers, family and friends and do not usually give a second thought to this phenomenon in our daily lives. We base these assumptions of identity on our memory and day-to-day interactions. More importantly, we trust these identities implicitly and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<title>I-STOP in New York is Finally Taking Off</title>
			<link>http://blog.drfirst.com/epcs/istop-in-new-york-is-finally-taking-off/</link>
			<comments>http://blog.drfirst.com/epcs/istop-in-new-york-is-finally-taking-off/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Soble-Lernor]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the very short amount of time since the New York State Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement (BNE) finalized its guidelines for providers and pharmacies to implement the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing (I-STOP) there has been a widespread movement from the New York healthcare community to begin using the new technology. As of this writing, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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