August 24th, 2007
The RTI International recommendations got split reviews from Don Schoen, president and chief executive officer of MediNotes, a West Des Moines, Iowa, developer of...
August 24th, 2007
Nearly nine out of 10 survey respondents said that electronic health records offered by health insurers should have appropriate privacy and security features, according...
August 23rd, 2007
Reactions varied widely between technology vendors, privacy advocates and government and clinical IT leaders questioned about a federally sponsored study that calls for re-engineering...
August 17th, 2007
Last April when a network technician working for Bellevue, Wash.-based Web content-management company Verus failed to set up a firewall properly as part of...
August 14th, 2007
he Bush administration has signed off on 14 recommendations in a federally funded report by RTI International on how to use electronic health-record systems...
July 19th, 2007
Electronic health records — touted by policymakers as a way to improve the quality of health care — failed to boost care delivered in...
July 18th, 2007
A report detailing how the use of electronic health records does not necessarily lead to an increase in the quality of care may be...
July 11th, 2007
Electronic health systems are supposed to help improve health care. But apparently, if you’re involved with a big project to build an e-health records...
July 5th, 2007
The US government is pressing to convert the nation’s health care system to electronic health records, wiring all our personal health records (PHRs) together...
May 11th, 2007
The third shoe has dropped in giving hospitals federal blessing to subsidize the cost of providing electronic health records systems software and technical support...
