Electronic Medical Records

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• Conspiracy theory Friday (FDA & CCHIT related)

  
  The Health Care Blog — Authority: 574
  By Matthew Holt Two fun things—First, Mark Leavitt says he’s quitting CCHIT in March. He says that he’ll be 60 then and wants to go do other stuff. Of course the cynics among you will say that he’s had enough...
  2 days ago

• Electronic Health Records Part II

  
  Why We Worry — Authority: 129
  Some notes from the writer, Andy Oram, of this O’Reilly Radar pos t when he attended the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium : According to the president of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, Micky Tripathi, 80% of US medical practices consist of just one or two physicians, and small practices handle 90% ...
  3 days ago

• Truth Behind Free EMR Software

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 129
  Google records more than a 1000 searches every month of people interested in free EMR software. Despite the common notion that “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” physicians continuously seek ways to acquire the EMR software without spending a single penny.There are three flavors of “free EMR” in the ...
  3 days ago

• Tablet PCs and EMR

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 129
  Tablet PCs represents one of the latest and the best technology in the field of EMRs and these have been successful in keeping up their promise of providing a perfect electronic solution for maintaining the patient charts.  There are two main types of PC tablets: convertible style and slate style.One major difference ...
  3 days ago

• Regina Hollidays mural for Fred

  
  The Health Care Blog — Authority: 574
  By Matthew Holt Regina’s story has been on THCB before—Fred’s Life & Death at 73 cents a page. But you may not have seen the mural. (From NPR)
  3 days ago

• What you Need to Know Before Investing in Web-Based EMR

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 129
  With the recession currently plaguing the lives of most Americans, spending money to implement Electronic Medical Records solution into practice may seem a bad idea. However, a great number of physicians have successfully implemented the “right-fit” EMR in their clinics to discover the increased efficiency of ...
  4 days ago

• EHR System Could Help Reduce Hip Fractures says Kaiser

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 129
  HealthConnect, Kaiser Permanente’s electronic health record system in California, is in the process of formulating a new osteoporosis prevention program that could significantly drop cases of hip fractures in the nation by 25 percent.Coined the world’s largest civilian EHR database, HealthConnect will assist the ...
  4 days ago

• EMR vs EHR – Are You Confused As Well?

  
  InterOpNurse — Authority: 99
  By InterOpNurse guest contributor: RevenueXL Inc.  What is the difference between an EMR and EHR? Aren’t they essentially the same? It is easy to notice the confusion created by the inconsistent messages being bandied about by different industry players.  Nextgen mentions both EMR and EHR in its home page ...
  5 days ago

• Office Ally Adds More Connectivity for Physicians and Patients – EHR and PHR Web Based Services

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  If you read this blog often enough, under Physician’s Resources there’s a permanent link to the Office Ally website to reach their site.  In addition to offering FREE clearinghouse services, Office Ally also has a web based PHR and EHR medical record services.  What is nice about the PHR is that it allows ...
  5 days ago

• US Lags in Health IT for Primary Care

  
  Healthcare Technology News — Authority: 403
  46% of U.S. primary care physicians report using electronic medical records (EMRs) significantly trailing other leading countries. EMRs are "nearly universal" in the Netherlands (99%), New Zealand (97%), the U.K. (96%), Australia (95%), Italy (94%), Norway (97%), and Sweden (94%). The Commonwealth Fund report on A ...
  5 days ago

• U.S. continues to trail other countries in physician IT adoption

  
  News — Authority: 126
  The Commonwealth Funds annual survey of international health policy is out, and, to nobodys surprise, primary-care physicians in the U.S. and Canada continue to trail their counterparts in Europe and the South Pacific in terms of health IT adoption. The survey, published as a Health Affairs web exclusive, finds that ...
  6 days ago

• New HIPAA Privacy and Security Enforcement Laws Favor Smart Card Use in Healthcare.

  
  WorldHealthCareBlog.org — Authority: 106
  Smart cards have been touted for years as a secure and efficient way to convey identification information, health plan benefits information, electronic health records, and more. However, adoption has been slow as providers dragged their feet in buying the necessary readers while the industry has worked to develop ...
  1 week ago

• If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 116
  This is written to 435 people in the two Houses of Congress called our Representatives. “Represent” means to speak for or act in the best interest of. If you truly do that, you must vote against the HR (numbers change along with content and without notice) claiming to be healthcare reform. Here are five reasons. ...
  1 week ago

• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-06

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 119
  [Post from Infoglide ] The Other Half of Entity Resolution “In a recent post, Jonathan McDonald quotes one definition of entity resolution: ‘According to Gartner, entity resolution is ‘the capability to resolve multiple labels for individuals, products or other noun classes of data into a single resolved ...
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• Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 116
  Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named healthcare. Below are examples medical care followed in italics by analogous Congressional ‘treatment’ of healthcare. You go to your primary doctor complaining of pain in your ...
  1 week ago

• Adventures in Primary Care

  
  DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog — Authority: 538
  In the years since my diagnosis, I’ve often wondered why I needed a primary care physician.  Since my health is all about controlling blood sugars and staving off D-complications these days, I literally have only seen our family doctor two or three times in the past six years.  And then recently, we got a letter ...
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• Case studies show how heath IT fits in today

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 432
  Writing for content, document and knowledge management publication KMWorld, David Raths evaluates applications of health information technology , or HIT, in a set of case studies which he wraps up into a handy overview of the utility and potential of HIT and electronic medical records. Raths breaks HIT up into ...
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• Medical programmers are just as bad as the doctors.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 116
  Programmers of medical information technologies (IT) seemed to have learned from the Renaissance Guild Masters. In at least one way, they are just as bad as doctors. For centuries, doctors have been accused of maintaining their power by keeping their arcane knowledge close to the vest and not sharing. To some extent, ...
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• Designing the Office Computer Network

  
  Medical Practice Trends.com — Authority: 99
  Regardless of whether or not you use an EMR system, you may already have computerized billing and scheduling. And if you have multiple computers at your practice, most likely these computers operate on some sort of network. Even if you are not the ‘technical’ person in your practice, you should understand the ...
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• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-02

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 119
  By the Infoglide Team Come by and see us at TDWI World in Orlando Nov. 3 & 4, Booth 405 The Emculturated World: Unmanage Master Data Management “ MDM breaks down in the moment it becomes divorced from a practical, immediate attempt to capture just what is needed today. The moment it attempts to ...
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