By Alex Byrd abyrd@news-journal.com HENDERSON — Rusk County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a $34,000 transition from paper medical records...
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In some countries such as the US, the medical practitioner still has ownership of the paper medical record, but this does not automatically mean that this will...
Many patients and their family caregivers do not take the time to prepare an advance directive, which often results in costly, unwanted, or inappropriate...
The image associated to this blog post shows two typical (very simplified) structures of an eHealth environment with the same number of clinical systems. With...
by Steven Reinberg, Healthday Reporter Government programs to defray costs help physicians install these electronic systems, report says. (HealthDay)—Almost 80...
By Barbara Hollingsworth (CNSNews.com) – The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance” system that will give bureaucrats...
Mother-son House tandem files bill seeking to encode personal health info. Survival in a health or medical emergency depends much on the speed of provision...
How does a Stage 7 hospital improve on its adoption of EHR technology? For Tampa General Hospital (TGH), the answer was mobility in the support of clinical...
More than nine out of 10 federally qualified health centers reported having electronic health records systems in 2013 compared with 30% in 2009. The adoption...
When spine surgeon Dr. Lloyd Hey couldn’t find commercial EHR software that met his needs, he hired a full-time programmer to build a custom EHR system...
Providers in Ohio are working together to provide health information exchange (HIE) capabilities that now cover the vast majority of the state’s patient lives...
Regulatory requirements have gone from high priority to the only priority for healthcare IT. Healthcare has always been a highly regulated industry, but in the...
A review of the rollout of Australia’s personally-controlled e-health record (PCEHR) system has recommended that the system sign up patients by default...
JOHN SOBCZAK Dennis Ramus, M.D., uses a tablet to enter patient information as part of the electronic health records system at Bay Area Family Physicians in...
According to a physical therapist and international marketing expert Nitin Chhoda, the HITECH Act provides incentives to health providers especially physical...













