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
May 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
