One more hospital is subsidizing the cost of ambulatory records to integrate with the hospital system. No mention of how much of the cost will be carried by the hospital. In the related reading section below, read about how the records reach physicians, the move is through working with the...
A qualified system is not faxing! Many offices who are set up with an EMR or EHR are already covered and are either set up and ready to go or have the capabilities. For those who are not, there’s a permanent link on this page to NEPSI, the free e-prescribing initiative where you can sign...
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on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-prescribing
Investors and analysts using The Healthcare Exchange will be able to ask questions of physicians, such as their opinions about a new treatment or device. Sermo has been a community website restricted to physicians to compare and collaborate within their peers and now with the new service investors...
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on 10-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Investors, Physicians, Prescriptions, clinical trials, Sermo, Bloomberg, MCconnect, opinions
The conference is being held later this year, and April certainly can bear a little bit better weather for Chicago than February. “ Keep your schedule on track for HIMSS09 in Chicago from April 4-8, 2009. The 2009 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition comes just 5 weeks later than last year's...
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on 10-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, Physicians, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, Medical Errors, HIMMS, Informed Patient, Quaid Foundation, Patient Rights, Dennis Quaid
Other hospital systems are working to catch up. Just in the news recently was the pilot exchange of information between the VA and Kaiser. Also the PHR, personal health records, from HealthVault will be due to come on line soon, so patients will be able to transfer the information to their...
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on 10-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, PHR, HL7, VA, Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, Patients, KP Health Connect, pilot program
124 Countries are represented on the site. I did a brief check to see where the surgeons are located and found some from California, USC and University of California for a couple members. You do need to sign up as a member to view any of the videos or contribute. You could almost consider...
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on 10-17-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Video, healthcare, Social Networks, Physicians, Procedures, Surgery Broadcast, Power Point
Good points made here, but they left out one thing, technology and it’s improper use can kill you too. I would almost guess we could go as high as around 50% to find many of the errors stemmed right here. I love technology and what it does, but there are those who don’t and those that resist...
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on 10-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, Physicians, Common User Interface, Hospitals, Server 2008, Never-Never, Sepsis, Vanderbilt University, Errors, Human Audit Trail, Patient deaths