We live in the world of Big Data. Everything we do, is recorded. Even when we think we are not connected to the internet. Companies spend millions trying to...
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the canadian press FREDERICTON – The New Brunswick Medical Society says more than a third of the 950 doctors eligible for the province’s new...
When a patient arrives in the intensive care unit, ideally clinicians would be able to see the most up-to-date record of her health and care. But because...
Imagine if patients’ medical records could follow them wherever they went. A New Yorker experiencing a health emergency while visiting family in California...
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...
Nationwide mandate requires doctors to share health records electronically ORLANDO, Fla. – The traditional pad and pencil are disappearing from...
Monday marked the five-year anniversary of the enactment of the HITECH Act, which allocated $25 billion to increasing the use of electronic health records...
David Hayes sat 3 feet away as Dr. Steven Bailey swiveled on a stool to look him in the eyes, then spun back to stare at a computer screen. Bailey’s...
There are major problems with the current way clinicians document patient encounters. It takes too long, it’s a pain in the behind and everyone wants to get it...
Flow sheet helps clinicians track what they did for a patient on previous and current visits, but they’re much more than a means of patient management. They...
WASHINGTON – More and more medical records are being moved online and electronic health records have plenty of benefits – but there’s a risk...
The Department of U.S. Health and Human Services has mandated that all medical and health facilities shift from paper-based health records to electronic ones...
Portability is the latest trend in technology these days and it is important that clinicians are also adaptive to a change something like this when it comes to...
A recent study lead by Jeffrey R. Botkin, MD, MPH, sought to understand patients perceptions of the use of information from EHR and clinical tissues for...
A new standard for global e-health has been achieved that allows for end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity in personal connected health devices, which are...
The “glitchy” launch of HealthCare.gov is an obvious front-page story. But when it comes to health and information technology, we face much bigger challenges...













