At a Federal Trade Commission event on Thursday, National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo said $24 billion already has been doled out through the...
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. — A new $100 million electronic medical records system is intended to improve health care, efficiency and provide patients easy access to...
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The EHR marketplace is full of innovative systems and services aimed at helping healthcare organizations and providers deal with a variety of initiatives. From...
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A patient’s medical records used to be more or less a closed book. The large, sometimes inches-thick file sitting on the counter in the examination room, which...
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Imagine if patients’ medical records could follow them wherever they went. A New Yorker experiencing a health emergency while visiting family in California...
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The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is an annual nationally representative survey...
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The healthcare reformer David Blumenthal explains why the medical system can’t move into the digital age. The health-care system is one of the most technology...
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The electronic health record is at the heart of efforts to improve clinical documentation. One effort strives to get disparate EHR software programs—and the...
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Less than a decade ago, nine out of 10 U.S. doctors updated their patients’ records by hand and stored them in color-coded files. Today, nearly half of all...
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Health information technology is most useful at the point of care so why do so many emergency medical services (EMS) professionals lack access to patient...
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I went down to Orlando, Florida a few weeks ago, joining about 35,000 of my closest friends to learn about the latest developments in healthcare related...
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In 2010, the federal government approved a hotly contested law aimed to increase the number of Americans with health insurance and decrease the cost of...
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By Michael Iorfino, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. March 16–For decades, health care providers relied on paper charts filled with handwritten notes and...
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WHAT IS AN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD? An electronic health record (EHR) is a computerized collection of a patient’s health records. It includes information such...
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I’ve seen integration success stories in the medical records field. And we’ve all seen hybrid cloud integration stories. But this is the first time I’ve seen a...
