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Healthcare industry is moving at a fast pace via Healthcare Information Technology (HIT). Everybody knows that electronic healthcare records (EHRs) are the most advanced practice of innovation in the healthcare industry. The meaningful use of EHRs (MU) is not limited to a certain sector of healthcare, which is capable of heavy investment. In fact, it is widely accepted by physicians of every scale and expertise.

How To Prevent Diabetes Type 2? You have just discovered that you are prediabetic. You can take meaningful steps to reduce your risk of diabetes. You can actually prevent diabetes simply by changing what you eat and how you invest in your physical health. The ball, my friend, is still in your court.

Around 8.3 percent population in the US has diabetes. Type II is the most prevalent form of diabetes. It is common among the young and the obese. Diabetes Mellitus or simply diabetes is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by an increase in your blood sugar. This results from an inadequate amount of insulin in the body or the cells' inability to respond to insulin.

HITECH - (Health Information Technology for Economics and Clinical Health) Act of 2009 is the bill that was passed to encourage the healthcare industry to adopt EHR technology. Moreover, it also motivates to use other related technologies for building an advanced and user-friendly US-healthcare system.

Practices receive payments for rendered services after weeks, and sometimes it takes months for them to get paid. It is not a deal between patients and doctors, but there is a third player involved - payer (the one who pays). The word P3 stands for Patients, Providers, and Payers, the three main players and 'Care' joins them in a meaningful way turning it into P3Care.