May 4, 2009 – Today, Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson released an outline of principles for health care reform, entitled, “Governing from the Middle: A Wise Path for Health Care Reform.” “I believe meaningful health care reform is within reach and Congress must find a middle ground to improve care by lowering cost and expanding access,” [...]
Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson releases outline of principles for health care reform.
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Electronic Prescriptions Soar at Walgreens
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Image via Wikipedia Walgreen Company announced that it set a record in March for the number of prescriptions it received electronically. The nations largest drugstore chain said it filled 3.1 million prescriptions electronically, a 211% increase compared with March 2008. In all, the electronic prescriptions accounted for about 15% of all prescriptions filled at Walgreens [...]
EMR adoption higher in states with fewer privacy rules- American Medical News
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Image via Wikipedia State laws in place to protect patients’ confidentiality may be causing some hospitals to be more skittish about adopting electronic medical records systems, a factor that could impede the push for the industry to go paperless, a study says. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Virginia recently [...]
CHIME Statement on Meaningful Use of Health IT
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), on behalf of our more than 1350 healthcare chief information officers across the U.S., is pleased to submit this statement for the record sharing our views on “meaningful use of health information technology.” CHIME serves as a voice of the healthcare IT executive within the U.S., informing and influencing public policy [...]
File Under ‘Hodgepodge’ – Newsweek May 2, 2009
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If you’re like most Americans, you like to take responsibility for your own health, even the aspects of it that you find boring, incomprehensible or just icky. You keep detailed records of every doctor’s visit and medication, just like you do for every tax deduction, maybe even in the same shoebox. To read the entire [...]
