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Addressing the American Medical Association a few months after taking office in 2009, President Obama said that the U.S. healthcare system “rewards the quantity of care rather than the quality of care.”

That statement, made by the president as he took the first steps toward healthcare reform, is still true of many U.S. insurance plans and healthcare organizations. Though the issue of physician compensation sometimes takes a backseat to more immediate reforms, it remains a pertinent concern in medical establishments across the country.

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We couldn’t possibly wrap up a series on analytics without mentioning the hottest topic in healthcare IT, could we?

EHRs allow practices to track patients by better chronicling the physician-patient experience, which makes for enhanced reporting, improved outcomes and a more structured view of each patient’s clinical profile.

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According to research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 80 percent of Internet users (making up 59 percent of U.S. adults), look online for health information.

Sure, the ubiquity of Internet access in modern society has changed the way Americans seek out information, in general. But in the case of healthcare, the widespread online availability of medical information is both helpful and troubling.

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When I was in college, neuroethics was becoming ‘a thing,’ and I thought the idea of interdisciplinary fields like those took the best of medical science and the humanities to alter the way we view the world.

But that’s just it – the way we view the world. With the advent of healthcare IT graduate university programs, we could be witnessing a revolution in the way we use the world.

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