Kenneth G. Adler, Arizona Daily Star
“These scenarios are commonplace. They stem from a system in which health-care providers don’t communicate well with each other and information is locked in paper records that are hard to read, access and share. This lack of exchange causes delays, errors, repeated and unnecessary tests, and adverse drug reactions.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“The over-arching challenge facing health care in the U.S. for 2010 is managing costs, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ forecast, titled appropriately, Squeezing the Juice Out of Healthcare.
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The Clickatell ZA Blog
‘Bulk SMS has reached new heights in application and is now being applied, not only for business purposes, but in the health arena too. In South Africa, ‘mHealth‘ ensures that health care reaches even the furthest and most remote reaches of the country.
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EMR, EMR Software, Electronicmedicalrecord's
“As medical practices nationwide focus on “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs), the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) reports encouraging findings from a survey of AMGA member medical groups.
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
“There is a push going on for push messaging, a likely first step in rolling out a proposed national health information network in time for healthcare organizations to use electronic health-record systems in a “meaningful manner” and qualify for federal EHR subsidy payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“In my previous post about the benefits of interoperable EMR software, Russ Reese left the following comment about the benefits of CPOE and whether CPOE will make it into the ARRA EMR stimulus requirements or not.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News - Priming the Pump
“While healthcare stakeholders are still awaiting the release of the HITECH “meaningful use” standards, a recent letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius points to the amount of work that still needs to be done in order to render “meaningful use” measurable.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“I’m not that smart and my ideas are not that unique.
This is why I enjoy writing the posts that are tagged “where we came from” on this blog.
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Mark Kuhn, Advance
“Keeping track of patient charts was once a struggle for the 300-provider Springfield Clinic. The 20-location practice headquartered in Springfield, Ill., required 160 medical record employees to manage its 888,000 paper records.
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Ideaworks
“A new web-based tool may better predict whether a person will suffer a second stroke within 90 days of a first episode, according to research published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Scientists developed a new tool known as the “Recurrence Risk Estimator at 90 days” or “RRE-90 score” to calculate a person’s risk of having another stroke within three months by looking at risk factors of stroke, such as history of mini-stroke, or transient ischemic attack (TIA).
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“An EHR that automates an error-prone process will, at best, produce errors at a faster rate. At worst, efforts to incorporate EHRs introduce more errors because they haven’t properly configured the EHR to accomodate existing workflows.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“The Dept. of Health and Human Services announced that an additional $235 million will be invested in advancing health information technology.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“Noordoost-Brabant Hospital Pharmacy (ZANOB) has become the first in the Netherlands to sign a contract with Alert for its new pharmacy system.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Washington can encourage physicians to buy electronic medical record systems, but it is the vendors and hospitals that affiliate with physicians that will ultimately determine if they go electronic, according to a new report from healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information.
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Shrinivas Kanade, EMR Specialists
“One of the main advantages of electronic medical records is that it helps in centralizing the data of your patient. Not long in the past, a receptionist working in a clinical practice could leave for the day, only after finding and arranging the records, that are committed to the papers of the patients on the next day’s appointments’ list. If she failed to do so, or if she failed to turn up on time due to some kind of emergency, then what would rule the medical practice.
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eHealthServer
“The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation announced that it is making source code for the IHTSDO Workbench, including tools to develop, maintain, and facilitate the use of SNOMED CT, freely available under an Apache2 open source agreement. IHTSDO will also make a number of seats on the collaborative web-based environment used to host the Workbench available free of charge to open source developers.
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Tevi Troy, The Washington Times
“President Obama’s health care agenda recently suffered a blow from an unsuspecting source – the leadership of the liberal Physicians for a National Health Program.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Stop us if you’ve seen this movie before: A CIO believes physicians will embrace EMRs as long as the technology doesn’t slow them down and cost them money.
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Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek Healthcare
“While electronic medical records promise massive opportunities for health benefits, the privacy and security risks are equally enormous.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, has placed on the open source market the source code for tools to develop, maintain and facilitate the use of SNOMED CT clinical terminology.
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