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Most U.S. Doctors Believe Patients Should Update Electronic Health Record, but Not Have Full Access to It

Today, at the HIMSS 2013 conference, Accenture released initial U.S. findings from an eight-country physician survey measuring the global use of health information technology. The results provide insight into where doctors stand in the ongoing [+]

Mediswipe launches first ever Digital Patient Health Records Smart Card

MediSwipe Inc. (www.MediSwipe.com) (OTCQB: MWIP), a patient security solutions and financial products company for the health care industry, today announced that it has provided over $500,000 in elective medical consumer financing for the month of December [+]

How electronic is your medical facility?

The "most wired" assessment is a great way to obtain an assessment of where you are on your mission of building towards an electronic medial center and meaningful use.  I have completed the Most Wired assessment [+]

E-health’s Role in Transforming Clinical Practice in a Nutshell

The rate at which health care practice is being initiated and carried out is getting more up to date than ever before.  In recent years it has become known as E-health and this started at [+]

Health Information Technology Roundtable Discussion

Leaders in the health information technology field gathered on Sept. 16 to discuss the state of health information technology in Arkansas, especially how the government is working, through incentives and other means, to facilitate conversion [+]

Medical Records as a Service. Will health care facilities really go for it?

Dr. Robert Wah, chair of the American Medical Association Board of Trustees and chief medical officer at CSC discusses healthcare as-a-service. For more information, visit www.envisiongovit.com. I really like the concept of medical records as a [+]

A Physician’s View of the Change from Paper to EMR

The following article was written by a guest Physician writer. Even though the source is known, the physician has asked to submit anonymously.   Physicians like any other professionals, have to deal with record-keeping and other related [+]

Electronic Health Records, Why do you care?

If you are reading my blog, you probably don't need to be convinced in the benefits of EHRs and EMRs.  That being said, it is always nice to have another tool in the bin to [+]

Will the FDA be monitoring your EHR?

The FDA seems like an odd group to be monitoring and managing EHRs, but there is precedence in them taking on medical technology.  Concerns about patient safety related to electronic health records may be [+]

Intuit Health: A Sleeping Giant with Big Potential

The good folks over at SoftwareAdvice.com sent me a new article they wrote on the possibilities of Intuit Health.  Intuit is best known for the Quickbooks series of applications.  However, they are diving into health [+]

5 Open Source EMRs Worth Reviewing

There is a continuing demand for electronic medical records (EMR) everywhere today and this is mainly due to the advancements made in the field of health care. One of the highly acknowledged   means in the [+]

Community College Discusses EHR Training Program

Kelly Patterson, a representative from Hinds Community College in Raymond, MS discusses the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (ONC) Community College Consortia Program. Patterson talks about how the program will train [+]

7 Clinic Safety Technologies that you should know

The integrity of the clinical technology ensures a consistency in their systems and processes. Clinical data management serves to be the most important basic routine. So, there should be flexibility and focus [+]

MEDecision VP of Product Marketing shares impressions of HIMSS11

Jeffrey Springer, vice president of product marketing, MEDecision shares impressions on the 'sea change' he is seeing at HIMSS11.   [+]

Health IT Trends from #HIMSS11

In the era of EHRs and meaningful use, physicians' practices have a growing number of IT needs. In this video, IT consultant Marion K. Jenkins discuses more about the challenges practices face and [+]

1.7 Million Personal Health Records Stolen

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ~1.7 million personal health records were stolen in December The confidential personal health data of about 1.7 million New York City patients, hospital staffers and others were stolen [+]

A physicians perspective of moving to the EMR

This Essential webinar provides key insights from your peers who've made the transition to electronic health records (EHR) ??Maximize the benefits of EHR implementation, and minimize disruption to your practice. Join us for this [+]

Does your EMR have security built in for VIPs?

Security is a high priority feature for today's EMR. One of the most public breaches for a VIP was the breach of George Clooney's medical record during a personal emergency.  Your EMR should be detailed audit [+]

Rapid EHR Market Evolution may be Leaving Some Vendors Behind

Don Fornes from SoftwareAdvice.com believes that EHR / EMR vendors may have some serious troubles in the future.  I tend to agree.  I find it unlikely that a field full of 400+ vendors is going [+]

Going Electronic: Some Simple Steps for Paper Chart Conversion

American EHR Partners has some good guidelines for folks starting to move away from paper. The costs of EHR software and hardware are currently front of mind due to the Medicare and Medicaid incentive funding [+]

EHR Tales from the Trenches: Pitfalls and Pointers from Physicians Who’ve Lived to Tell the Tale

Check out this webinar! HealthTechnica's own Shawn Riley is moderating. Who should attend: • Physicians in small and medium sized practices • IT staff and IT consultants for small and medium sized practices EHR topics to [+]

“Partnering for Cures” to Advance Personalized Medicine

Ken Buetow, Ph.D., Director at the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at National Cancer Institute talks about the information challenges faced by researchers, providers and patients, and looks at the potential for technology [+]

Care360 iPad EMR deserves a look!

View a video demo of Care360 on the iPad Care360, the leading web-based electronic health record (EHR), accessible on desktops, laptops and the iPhone™, now comes with a native app for the iPad. The app, [+]

The Values, And Pitfalls, of Health Information Exchanges

A Health information exchange (HIE) is defined as the transmission of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a community. HIE is an integral part of the health information technology (HIT) and [+]

Guide to Negotiating an EHR Software License Agreement

Houston Neal of SoftwareAdvice.com fired me an email and let me know about an article he wrote on EHR Licensing. His article is a perfect tie in for 101 Tips to make your EMR [+]
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