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
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...
I watched part of the video, not all as it is several hours long and you might want to watch for yourself. The site requires Real Player to view the video. Dr Halamka makes a great presentation and everyone called him “the jet”, thus the title above. In speaking he addresses many topics...
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on 12-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, EHR, CIO, Health IT, e-prescribing, Medicaid, integration, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, CCHIT, personal health record, PHR Pilot program, PHRs
This article offers some very good insight here and I’ll add my 2 cents worth as well. We all know that documentation, no matter what kinds it is, paper or electronic is mandatory to good healthcare, but technology creates it own set of new issues too, so it’s not a matter of get electronic records...
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on 11-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, patient care, EHR, Common User Interface, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates, data input
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
With both consumer and commercial medical devices, Bluetooth has become a preferred connection. I remember back to the early days of Bluetooth and we all used to sit around and wonder in the Windows Mobile group where Bluetooth was going to somehow fit it. The cell phone was the obvious answer...
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on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, personal health record, Healthcre, Bluetooth
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
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Interoperability, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates, ehealth, healthcare standards, Desmond Tutu