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Topic: electronic medical records

Personal Health Record Use by Adolescents

Personal Health Record Use by Adolescents

May 15, 2013 6:00 am by | 0 Comments


In response to many questions about PHR use by adolescents, I asked Fabienne Bourgeois, the expert at Children's Hospital Boston, to write this guest blog post -

As more and more practices and hospitals ... Read more
Web startup plays matchmaker for physicians and EMR vendors

Web startup plays matchmaker for physicians and EMR vendors

May 13, 2013 4:58 pm by | 0 Comments

For every two physician practices that have chosen and set up a basic EMR system, there are about three others that haven’t yet done so. Boston-based startup MedicalRecords.com sees that ... Read more
New Google Glass hack gives doctors the power of face recognition

New Google Glass hack gives doctors the power of face recognition

May 13, 2013 4:48 pm by | 0 Comments

While there’s a lot of talk about how Google Glass could one day be used in hospitals, hackers are creating that future today.A group of programmers has created an app ... Read more
How to use WebID to create single sign-on across healthcare systems

How to use WebID to create single sign-on across healthcare systems

April 29, 2013 8:25 am by | 0 Comments

The Simple Sign-on challenge sponsored by the ONC through the Health 2.0 challenge was an exciting opportunity for us to learn about a sophisticated technology protocol and then being able ... Read more
4 healthcare startups that could help people hurt in the Boston Marathon bombing

4 healthcare startups that could help people hurt in the Boston Marathon bombing

April 17, 2013 7:40 am by | 0 Comments

Many healthcare entrepreneurs start companies for the most altruistic reasons: to help. A family member who had Alzheimer’s motivated Elli Kaplan to found Neurotrack. Jared Heyman built CrowdMed after watching ... Read more
Boston Marathon case shows health IT gaps to be fixed in next phase of Massachusetts’ HIE

Boston Marathon case shows health IT gaps to be fixed in next phase of Massachusetts’ HIE

April 16, 2013 5:03 pm by | 6 Comments

The pair of explosions near the finish line at yesterday’s Boston Marathon sent more than 100 patients – several of them in serious or critical condition – to unexpecting area ... Read more
These three things must change before we can realize health IT’s full potential

These three things must change before we can realize health IT’s full potential

April 10, 2013 2:01 pm by | 1 Comments

As someone who has spent over 20 years focusing on the needs of healthcare organizations, I have experienced first hand their unique challenges with proper utilization of technology to improve ... Read more
EMR data has big applications in public health, but a few legal & tech barriers stand in the way

EMR data has big applications in public health, but a few legal & tech barriers stand in the way

April 9, 2013 3:45 pm by | 0 Comments

The Google Flu Trends project is a great example of not only the potential use for big data at a public health level, but also some of the challenges that ... Read more
We need a Public Health Graph to connect clinical, personal, social, and societal data

We need a Public Health Graph to connect clinical, personal, social, and societal data

April 4, 2013 10:09 am by | 6 Comments

“Give us our damn data!” It’s a common refrain from patients, who want access to their medical records. Many assume they are entitled to information so intensely personal, learning too ... Read more
How better-targeted technologies can fix the mess of emergency medical care

How better-targeted technologies can fix the mess of emergency medical care

April 3, 2013 12:43 pm by | 3 Comments

Elderly people and veterans are among the chronically neglected when it comes to American medicine. We know who these people are, so why do they still die alone in their ... Read more
Survey: Half of healthcare orgs aren’t sure they can detect all patient data privacy & security breaches

Survey: Half of healthcare orgs aren’t sure they can detect all patient data privacy & security breaches

March 19, 2013 10:25 am by | 0 Comments

As the use of mobile devices, file-sharing software and cloud services has been on the rise among healthcare providers, data breaches have been rising steadily along with them. A hefty ... Read more
Strategic Acquisitions for Allscripts

Strategic Acquisitions for Allscripts

March 8, 2013 11:06 am by | 0 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post on the current trends in the EHR industry. I mentioned that users of Allscripts products have increasingly been switching away ... Read more
Practice Fusion’s first major acquisition makes health ‘feel like less of a chore’

Practice Fusion’s first major acquisition makes health ‘feel like less of a chore’

February 26, 2013 11:12 pm by | 0 Comments

Practice Fusion, a company that provides free web-based health records to doctors, is now expanding to serve the general public too. The companyhas just acquired 100Plus, a mobile ... Read more

Hospitals seeing advantages of electronic records

Hospitals seeing advantages of electronic records

February 25, 2013 11:27 am by | 0 Comments

The days of wading through stacks of paperwork to log and chart medical records are fading as the health care industry finds its place in the digital world.On May 11, ... Read more
Health technology’s ‘essential critic’ warns of medical mistakes

Health technology’s ‘essential critic’ warns of medical mistakes

February 18, 2013 7:34 am by | 0 Comments

Computer mistakes like the one that produced incorrect prescriptions for thousands of Rhode Island patients are probably far more common and dangerous than the Obama administration wants you to believe, ... Read more