Yes, EMRs can actually work for physicians
If we give physicians more control over their workflows and genuine solutions to the growing deluge of clinical data, we’ll also be giving them more reasons to fully engage with EMR technology.
If we give physicians more control over their workflows and genuine solutions to the growing deluge of clinical data, we’ll also be giving them more reasons to fully engage with EMR technology.
The tech giant would provide engineering support to the VA and develop certain software tools that enable veterans to transfer their medical records to iPhones, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
A new study from researchers at UCSF analyzes whether the majority of text in an EHR progress note is manually entered, copied or imported by clinicians.
Ozark, Missouri-based HealthMEDX serves retirement communities, assisted-living and independent-living facilities, skilled nursing centers and home care providers.
In an in-person interview with MedCity News, Jonathan Bush discusses what he would want from electronic health records companies if he were a hospital CIO and his vision of the future of EHRs.
One of the toughest tasks in any medical care environment is protecting patient data while ensuring clinicians access to that data in performing their job.
As ER doctors and nurses grapple with the transition to digitalized record systems, they seem to happen more frequently.
With the help of the Epic Systems EMR at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha discovered that children had far higher lead levels in their blood a year after Flint switched its water supply than a similar group did a year before the change.
It wasn't the story itself or anything about healthfinch that was controversial, though. It was more about the idea of electronic medical records in the first place.
As the year began, healthfinch announced that it had closed a $7.5 million Series A round of venture capital, led by Adams Street Partners.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
And no, Watson, will not replace clinicians.
Their numbers will reach 100,000 by 2020,
NorthShore built structured clinical decision support toolkits into the Epic EMR to capture discrete data for 10 specific neurological disorders. The next step is to build a neurology research network among like-minded health systems.
Monday, athenahealth, with the help of Dr. Zubin Damania's rapping alter-ego, ZDoggMD, launched "Let Doctors Be Doctors," which is part platform for doctors to demand better EHRs and, let's face it, part athenahealth marketing campaign.
Also, the Mylan-Perrigo hostile takeover is underway, Medtronic gets an FDA approval and new population health innovations are popping up throughout the country.