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?
May 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
