Recently there has been quite a bit in the news about eClinicalWorks and perhaps this might be due to the fact that they not only offer a complete electronic medical records program, but they also appear to have a large focus on interoperability as well. The related reading section below has a...
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on 01-06-2009
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Pediatrics, Personal Health Records, Washington DC, Interoperability, Practice Management, New York, eClinicalWorks, Software as as Service
One more good story about a hospital going electronic, but it does make one good point, the amount of information being transferred. We are all in the age of information overload and and importance of getting better credible records could not be more important, but think of the volume and how much...
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on 12-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Diagnosis, Algorithms, Treatment, information overlaod, filters
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
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, HHS, NIH, Server 2008, Vanderbilt University, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates, FNIH, Sepsit
The story here is the reliability so with not having to mess around with sending DVDs back and forth in the mail and answering other related questions, the need for support has dropped as technology is better. The Common User Interface from Microsoft for Medical Records is also powered by Silverlight...
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on 12-08-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, HHS, Vanderbilt University, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates, Netflix, Server 20908
When looking at the record in the VA files, a small blue box states “Remote Data Available”, and this brings in the DOD medical records. The information includes military inpatient discharge summaries, procedures performed, outpatient encounters, patient vital signs, lab test results, notes on...
Let’s put it another way, it can’t exist without IT. Again it all comes back to running algorithms to obtain desired results. As I have mentioned before, Algorithms is one of the hottest words right now in healthcare as we all make decisions from queried results. A while back I had the opportunity...
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on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Biotech, Pharmacogenomics, Helicos, Sequencing
We all read the many articles about Kaiser and how they have successfully connected their locations and patient records, well that certainly presents a challenge to those concerns who compete and also want to provide the same or similar type of recordkeeping and services. This group has chosen to make...
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on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Allscripts, Misys, IPA, CahRHIO, information interchange, RHIO