Image via Wikipedia A new Web site provides a forum for health care professionals to discuss the “meaningful use” of electronic health records. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, hospitals and doctors can earn financial incentives if they meet yet-to-be-defined requirements for meaningful use of EHRs. The new site is a collaborative venture of [...]
MeaningfulUse.Org – attempting to understand the “Yet to be Defined”
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Canada’s First ePrescribing Program Launches in Ontario
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ePrescribing is the process of generating, authorizing and transmitting prescriptions from doctors and other prescribers to pharmacists and other dispensers. It eliminates hand-written prescriptions by physicians and facilitates the electronic delivery of prescriptions to pharmacies. Two sites have been selected for the ePrescribing Demonstration Project: The Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie and Georgian [...]
Health care IT experts urge no delays in EHR adoption – Don’t wait for “meaningful use” definitions
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Image via Wikipedia Health care IT experts are urging health care providers not to delay electronic health record adoption until the federal government has defined “meaningful use” of EHRs, Healthcare IT News reports. The economic stimulus package includes about $20 billion for direct funding and incentives for health care providers who implement EHRs and demonstrate [...]
What impact will EMR have on medical education?
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Image by Baranka via Flickr ScienceDaily (May 11, 2009) — Many countries worldwide are digitizing patients’ medical records. In the US, for example, the recent economic stimulus package signed into law by President Obama includes $US17 billion in incentives for health providers to switch to electronic health records (EHRs) and $US2 billion for the development [...]
