What was anticipated as being a booming year for health IT relative to electronic medical records has somewhat hit a stall, at least for now due to economic conditions. We probably won’t know more until the new administration takes office and can go from there. Right now there are many hospitals...
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on 01-06-2009
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Hospitals, Heatlhcare, Desperate Hospitals
The article states this is the 6th year in a row that funding has declined for the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The grants and funds available at the NIH are more difficult to secure as well. The NIH has set up it’s own Foundation as well, looking for donations. Last week...
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on 12-14-2008
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Most Peer reviews are still done on paper and this hospital is testing the software to gather all related information to begin generating peer reviews of doctors with software. Electronic Medical records used in conjunction with the process would be a big plus if not a necessity. Peer reviews are...
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on 12-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Hospital, Medical Records, EHR, Business Intelligence, software, Heatlhcare, pilot program, Peer Reviews
One of the messages coming from the meeting is that they believe they can learn from the mistake made in the US, and there were representatives from the US at the meeting. Karl Brown believes it might be easier to achieve interoperability in developing countries than in the U.S. or Europe. “You...
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on 11-24-2008
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They have established a coding vocabulary for genetic test results called CBO, or Clinical Bioinformatics Ontology . Genetic test results are associated with the concepts from the CBO, whereas a traditional observation like a pulse or blood pressure might be associated with a SNOMED (Systematized...
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on 11-15-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Genomics, Medical Records, EHR, Cerner, vocabulary, codes
Good article from Dr. Halamka at Beth Israel Medical Center/Harvard in Boston, talking about the positives and money saved by using speech recognition. One other item to mention here from my side of the coin, it makes creating blog entries a lot easier too, and yet I use it! There are more...
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on 11-07-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, healthcare IT, Harvard Medical School, Nuance, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Speech Recognition, EScription, BIDMC, John Halamka
This is a great abstract discussing electronic medical records. Dr. Tim Sturgill, an emergency room physician put this together, as the emergency room MD would be at the top of the list to want credible patient records, as some patients may only be seen once at the facility, especially if traveling...
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on 11-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, personal heatlh records, health cloud