From the IT side of things, I can’t agree more with all the additional administrative functions that appear in today’s medical practice, as a few years ago when I was writing code and creating a medical records program, much of what I was doing was looking for ways to automate some of this, to free the...
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on 10-30-2008
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The Human audit trail has arrived or I should say will arrive in January. Will we someday all be walking around with a device like this clipped to our clothing? This looks like an item that could be integrated in to one of the online Personal Healthcare Records programs as a next step . ...
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on 10-12-2008
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This article does a good job in outlining the direction of the PHR, personal health record for those who have not caught up with the lingo yet. Do patients want it? As of now most probably don’t know what to do with it, agree. There are some cases though where this does not hold true, as...