It happened again today: an elderly lady with critical aortic stenosis with all its cool findings: late peaking harsh, palpable murmur, Gallavardin phenomenon, LV heave – the works! And what did the electronic medical record from the intern picking up the patient say?“CV – Irreg rate and rhythm, no murmurs, clicks or rubs.”No doubt this [...]

Healthcare “big data” company Explorys has added Akron General as the 10th health system in its network and is looking to double that number in 2012.Explorys has developed a network that contains troves of clinical and financial data from health systems and allows health providers to analyze that data in real time. The idea is [...]

Physician offices in Ohio and Mississippi became the first in the U.S. to exchange health information using a new set of secure messaging standards.Officials hailed the milestone as another step toward a day when Americans’ health records will be easily accessible to physicians anywhere in the nation, Information Week reported.Doctors in Lima, Ohio and Biloxi, [...]

Current medical news from today, including HHS pushes back date for early EMR adopters to meet stage 2 meaningful use criteria, a health crisis in the UK, and which biotech stocks not to bet on.

Health data management company Explorys has received a 60 percent, seven-year tax credit from the state of Ohio.In exchange for the credit, Cleveland-based Explorys is expected to create 165 jobs and retain 35 positions, according to the Ohio Department of Development. Explorys’ employment expansion is expected to create $13.3 million in additional payroll.CEO Steve McHale [...]

Last week, Don Berwick completed his 17 month tenure as administrator of Medicare and Medicaid. The nation should be grateful that such a visionary was at the helm. The nation should be frustrated that he was never confirmed.In his parting interview with the press, he noted that 20 percent to 30 percent of health [...]

At the mobile health technology conference mHealthcon held at Rutgers University on Dec. 1, one panel shared some interesting insights about their businesses and what entrepreneurs and adapters of mobile health technology could learn from them.Patients are consumers first. The users of your product may be patients, but they evaluate new product choices the same [...]

Health information technology company Updox has received a $500,000 loan from the state of Ohio to develop a mobile version of its software aimed at independent physician practices.Updox sells document management software to physicians and medical practices. The software is a web-based patient portal, e-mail and secure messaging system that features patient record [...]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is investing $15 million and partnering with Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) in a program intended to make electronic health records more widely available to physicians in the state.That investment will help physicians leap over the biggest hurdle for EHR technology adoption: cost. Over the next five years, the money will [...]

It was kind of funny reading this recent article from the New York Times that focuses on a relatively small health data breach from Stanford Hospital’s emergency room:A medical privacy breach involving Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., led to the public posting of data for 20,000 emergency room patients, including names [...]