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...
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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...
8:00 AM, just got out of the shower, my phone rings. Our family doctor calling : “Morning Lucien, just when I started my computer it pointed me out to...
“Web-based electronic medical records system is transforming the world of physical therapists as professionals around the world implement this solution and...
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have used natural language processing technology in an electronic medical records system to identify...
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers and co-authors from four other U.S. institutions from the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE)...
For generations, doctors in England have been saying they want patients to be more involved in managing their health. Doctors know that an engaged fruitful...
There’s been a growing adoption of electronic medical records in the past several years and today more than 44 percent of hospitals use electronic over...