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• The Answer to a Healthcare Decision Maker’s Prayer: Accessible Health Information Technology That Reduces the Cost of Care and Improves Patient Health From SuiteMed

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  “The SuiteMed Electronic Health Record System (PMS/EHR) effectively addresses the need to better manage healthcare costs, the quality of patient care and the increasing difficulty of Physicians meeting the rapidly growing paperwork requirements of an expanding medical delivery system.SuiteMed significantly enhances ...
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• Patients, Doctors Embrace the Web

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  “A man walks into a hospital urology department for a consultation on prostate cancer screening. The man, an executive type, makes it clear that he will only meet with the department chairman. After 30 minutes, he emerges from the chairman’s office; it is clear that the meeting has not gone well. It turns out that ...
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• What to do with homegrown IT solutions

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  “Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG), comprising 200 primary care physicians and 500 specialists in private practices in the San Diego area, and Graybill Medical Group, based in Escondido and one of the largest primary care practices in California, are going to develop a patient management and electronic health ...
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• Paperless hospital in Scotland signals ‘new era in patient care’

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  “Stobill hospital, a new hospital opened by the NHS Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, is being touted as one of the “most modern and well-equipped” hospitals in Scotland.The Stobhill hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Scotland and is expected to treat around 400,000 patients each year.”ArticleMolly ...
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• Health IT: Comparing Cloud Computing and Desktop Applications

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  “I’m debating a cloud-computing expert about the use of the cloud for health IT. The debate focuses on issues of cost, security, complexity.”ArticleSteve Beller, Trusted.MD, 9 November 2009
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• Incentives for EHR Adoption: Pay Now or Pay Later

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 123
  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has announced that starting January 2010, healthcare providers will have the option to use electronic health record systems to report Medicare quality and electronic prescribing measures to CMS in some of its pay-for-performance programs. The revisions are designed “to ...
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• The Future of Medical Technology

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  In the future, a visit to your family physician, or any specialist, will begin with a quick scan of the computer screen, where a few keystrokes will tell the doctor everything he or she needs to know about you - all the way from how much you weighed at birth, to X-rays of that bone you broke when you flipped your ...
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• Spotlight on the “Health Tech Today” Video Launch

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  Video Clip from MicrosoftBy Staff ReportersHealth Tech Today is a new monthly, on-line video series at the intersection of health and information technology.  The show premiers November 10th 2009, but you can view a video trailer of their first show on the link below, right nowHealthBogHealthBlog includes ...
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• If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  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. ...
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• U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries In Primary Care

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  “In many countries, primary care clinicians serve as the foundation for health care and the “gatekeepers” for more specialized referrals. A new international survey of primary care physicians in eleven countries finds that American doctors are significantly behind many of their counterparts elsewhere in ...
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• A survey of primary care physicians in eleven countries, 2009: perspectives on care, costs, and experiences

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  This 2009 survey of primary care doctors in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States finds wide differences in practice systems, incentives, perceptions of access to care, use of health information technology (IT), and programs ...
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• Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  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 ...
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• Personal Health Records at Your Fingertips

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 123
  “Hold on please, my personal health record is calling…” We could see this coming:  AllOne Health(SM) and Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group, Inc. has partnered to allow consumers to simply and securely view and manage health information on the Web, via portable USB storage devices and through their mobile ...
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• Conscience clauses not just about abortion anymore

  
  Jeremiah Films Announcements — Authority: 145
  Medical technology has surged forward in recent years, leading to many life-saving and life-giving procedures. At the same time, legal and ethical remedies havent kept pace, and officials at the state and federal level are still working out how to address the sometimes competing needs and values of doctors and ...
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• EHR Gains Support from Technology Companies

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 123
  Technology firms have stepped forward to join the campaign to boost electronic health record systems. The AAFP’s Partners for Patients initiative unexpectedly received declarations of support from more than 20 companies stating how they also recognize the need to improve health care delivery in the United States. In ...
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• Is Someone at Jefferson Regional Medical Center Lying About EHR ...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  This curious story appeared about apparent clinician health IT safety concerns at Jefferson Regional Medical Center near Pittsburgh: Switch to electronic records alarms Jefferson Regional physicians By Walter F. Roche Jr. PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, October 30, 2009 read more
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• Study: U.S. Primary Care Docs Lag Behind in Health IT

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  “Findings from a Commonwealth Fund (New York) survey of primary care physicians in 11 countries reveals that the United States lags far behind in key measures of access, quality, and use of health IT.According to the study, while other countries are making efforts to bolster primary care systems by investing in IT ...
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• Tackling Privacy and Security Concerns of EHRs: New Consortium to Develop Common Standards for Electronic Sharing of Physician-Dictated Patient Notes

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 123
  In regards to widespread EHR adoption, one of the top concerns among physicians and patients is maintaining privacy and security of sensitive medical information. Interoperable health information is another worry, as federal standards for an EHR require that it have the capacity to share health data between ...
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• Blogpost: The U.S. Democratic Healthcare Reform Bill Proposal

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  “At the ICMCC News Page we try to stay out of politics as much as possible. We try to give a good overview of new developments in Health Information Technology, covering both news and scientific articles. Interesting debates are mentioned, we try to give overviews of outcomes of conferences.And we try to make our ...
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• Survey: electronic health records not getting full use

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 145
  “A survey of physicians in Southwest Michigan affirms what Larry Hamilton and many others already knew — that the medical profession is slow to embrace information technology, and even those doctors who do are not fully using it.Nothing new, certainly. But the data does provide Hamilton a little better ...
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