Union warns EHRs should be secure
July 3rd, 2008
Failure to adequately secure electronic medical records could result in a court hearing or even criminal charges, warns the Medical and Dental Defence Union...
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ACLU Urges Congress to Ensure Privacy of Electronic Health Records
June 25th, 2008
Americans worried medical secrets in new databases will be misused Washington, DC Today, lawmakers will be making decisions about the future of patients’ medical...
Reps. Barton, Dingell To Introduce Legislation That Aims To Spur Nationwide Adoption of Electronic Health Records
June 24th, 2008
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) and ranking member Joe Barton (R-Texas) on Tuesday plan to introduce a bill that would...
Our Pen-and-Paper Doctors
June 24th, 2008
With electronic health records seen widely as a way to make medical care better and possibly cheaper, it is disturbing how slowly they are...
EHR sent this physician back to efficiency of handwritten records
June 23rd, 2008
Regarding “EHRs must be made irresistible, but for now are clearly inadequate” (Letters, May 26): I am one of those doctors mentioned by letter...
Patient Privacy at Issue in Vermont’s Bid for Electronic Health Records
June 18th, 2008
When you go to a new doctor, you probably don’t pay much attention to the document you are required to read and sign that...
4 percent of U.S. doctors use EHRs, new study finds
June 18th, 2008
A milestone study of the adoption of health information technology has produced findings that one of the study’s authors calls troubling and the other...
Northrop Grumman Showcases Drug Development IT Systems Interoperability And Connectivity At DIA Annual Meeting
June 13th, 2008
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will highlight its experience enabling drug development for federal and commercial programs at the 43rd Drug Information Association (DIA)...
CCHIT Not Good Enough for Privacy, Says Founder of EHR Privacy Certification
June 12th, 2008
A stamp of approval from the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) is not enough to guarantee that electronic health records can provide...
EHRs must be made irresistible, but for now are clearly inadequate
May 26th, 2008
Regarding “Selling the bitter EMR pill” (AMNews, April 7): The article, in essence, asks how do we convince the recalcitrant physician to swallow the...