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
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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...
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
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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
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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Another updated video on the interface, again it would be nice to have the same visuals at every hospital and perhaps doctor’s offices with the existing programs still running in the background, only the user interface would need to change. This video takes a little extra time to walk through the...
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on 11-19-2008
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One more hospital provided integrated services for physicians on staff and 40 with practice management software from the hospital. Edward Health Service Corporation Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Practice Management CHICAGO and NAPERVILLE, Ill., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ ...