Image by christhedunn via Flickr The Obama administration is nudging the medical industry into making a fundamental shift to a paperless system. The goal is to greatly reduce health care costs. Providers are dumping their paper files and enlisting computers to keep track of their patients’ medical histories. The administration is offering $19 billion to [...]
Tucson Medical Center goes high-tech to improve patient safety.
May 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia It’s estimated hospital medical mistakes kill 100,000 people a year in the United States. Many hospitals, including Tucson Medical Center are going high-tech to improve patient safety. TMC is in the process of completing a state-of-the-art electronic medical records system, or EMR. A hospital spokesman says when it’s completed in June [...]
Technology Advances Benefit Physicians and Patients at Summit Medical Group
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Electronic Health Records (EHR) are quickly becoming the trend among hospitals and medical practices. EHR include key patient information including: progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports. EHR have many benefits mostly centered on the elimination of the paper chart. Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights [...]
Treating the sickest part of Americas Economy
May 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia A MIDDLE-AGED man felt chest pains. As an executive at IBM, an information-technology firm, he had excellent health insurance, so he went straight to a specialist. His cardiologist put him through a bunch of tests, including a computerized tomography scan. A radiologist noticed something odd in his neck, so he went to [...]
Is EMR the magic bullet to fix the health care system?
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Image via Wikipedia Do you get frustrated when you go to the specialist and your records aren’t there? Do lab tests get repeated because the originals can’t be found? Do you wonder why your insurance information needs to be gathered again at each stop? If so, your experience is not unique. It really isn’t your [...]
Health Providers moving slowly to EMR
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Image via Wikipedia In New Jersey, and around the country, most doctors still rely on paper records for everything from writing prescriptions to keeping track of their patients’ allergies. Only about 1.5 percent of U.S. hospitals have switched to an electronic records systems, and less than 8 percent have even a basic system, according to [...]
Will EHR Adoption need to be decentralized?
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Image via Wikipedia The following is an analysis of a previous article questioning the premise that EHR is the correct prescription for healthcare automation. The healthcare industry overspends on administration, relative to other industries. Automation through IT systems is clearly one of the solutions, but a centralized or uniform health records platform is increasingly not [...]
Sunguard Availability and Phoenix Health partner to deliver EMR and infrastructure managment to community hospitals
May 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
SunGard Availability Services has partnered with Phoenix Health Systems, a national provider of healthcare IT outsourcing, consulting and revenue cycle management solutions, to help hospitals improve information availability for electronic medical records (EMR) and other technologies essential to quality of care. Together, SunGard and Phoenix will help community hospitals by developing and executing cost-effective business [...]
IT Executive Panel Discussion on EMR in Wisconsin
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At the Digital Healthcare Conference 2009 in Madison, several healthcare executives from University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics along with venture capital investor John Byrnes of Mason Wells answered questions and discussed the role that technology will play in improving the quality of health care delivery. Panelists included John Byrnes, Executive Managing Director, Mason Wells, [...]
EMR trends from a Chiropractic perspective
May 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
Image by taberandrew via Flickr I have been spending a lot of time in Washington, D.C., meeting with government officials at White House Forums and on college campuses, doing interviews, and speaking with members of health care panels; the trends in the industry are becoming readily apparent. Patient-centered care, supported by technology, is all the [...]
