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Small and medium-sized healthcare facilities today often look to reduce operating costs wherever possible.  Many organizations may feel that they can reduce costs by managing their IT on-site.  In order to determine whether or not this would be a good decision for your organization, it is important to weigh the costs of paying an outside IT provider with the costs of what would happen to your organization if your network suffered a crash.  There are a few factors to consider when trying to make this determination.

Things change frequently in the world of healthcare, and it looks like the new 2015 EHR Meaningful Use guidelines are no exception to this axiom.  On February 21, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released details of the proposed voluntary 2015 version of EHR regulations.  This new approach represents a change to the way that the ONC will regulate the meaningful use of electronic health records.