Nov 04: Deaths at VA hosptial blamed on poor EHR use
Three recent deaths at the Memphis VA Medical Center emergency department could probably have been prevented with better communication, documentation […]
Nov 04: GAO Reports Jump In Medicare EHR Payments
Medicare electronic health records (EHR) incentive payments to hospitals and health care professionals topped $6.3 billion for 2012 – more
Nov 04: Cerner Looks Like a Winner
Cerner (ticker: CERN) is well positioned to benefit from increased information-technology (IT) spending by health-care providers in both the U.S.
Nov 04: A Word from Dr. Pfenninger Dealing with insurances, the government in medicine
I was recently involved in an email exchange involving one of our elected representatives about the governmental stresses being borne
Nov 04: OBH launches Electronic Medical Health Records
ILWACO — Over the next two months, Ocean Beach Hospital and Medical Clinics. Both
Nov 04: Launching Oncology IT System With Old + New Tech a Bad Idea
Successfully implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) system requires, among other things, starting from scratch with a clean system, without
EMR Lecture American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons 2013
Electronic Medical Records Lecture American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons 2013
Nov 02: HealthCare.gov: Relying on floppy disks and giant cell phones to fix?
We couldn’t resist this one: The latest cover of New Yorker magazine probably articulates what many are thinking when it
Nov 02: 5 things you don’t know about Obamacare
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The central provision of Obamacare — the new health-insurance marketplaces — is scheduled to debut in less
Nov 02: This is how Yahoo employees go to the dentist
This dentist uses laughing gas and regular unleaded — performing root canals out of the back of a van or
Nov 02: 10 things plastic surgeons won’t tell you
1. “I trained a whole weekend to learn this procedure.” Dentists, gynecologists, barely trained spa technicians — it seems like