Electronic Health Records wired for abuse
March 29th, 2008
“Oops! They did it to Britney again.” No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy...
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EHRs: Certification doesn’t mean much to most small practices
March 28th, 2008
Certifying EHRs is supposed to help doctors pick the best products. But small medical practices generally don’t put much stock in this stamp of...
National health records network to hook up with Google, Microsoft
March 27th, 2008
The federal office in charge of creating a national network of electronic health records plans to integrate the system with the health care databases...
Practice Fusion expands, shows signs of rapid growth
December 31st, 2007
Practice Fusion, a company that provides free online electronic health records to physicians, announced last week it will partner with Physician Services,...
Medical Companies Form Group To Protect Electronic Health Records
December 5th, 2007
A consortium of nine companies in the health-care industry are banding together to create a set of security practices to better protect the information...
HHS urges Congress to include IT adoption in physician payment fix bill
December 4th, 2007
Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urged Congress yesterday to include a requirement for doctors to use electronic health records as part...
Failure, de-installation of EHRs abound: study
October 30th, 2007
Failures of electronic medical-record systems are part of the lore of healthcare information technology.
Not surprisingly, a recently released survey of healthcare IT use conducted...
Improving Health Care: Why a Dose of IT May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered
October 1st, 2007
The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation-10/01/07-Information technology (IT) is a major driver of innovation and economic growth.1 Health IT promises to revolutionize health care...
Shhhhh! (10 Secrets the EHR Companies Don’t Want You to Know)
August 31st, 2007
Getting physicians to use an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is not an easy task. Getting them to fork over thousands of dollars for one...
Scrap the national IT plan … and do it right instead!
August 30th, 2007
In a recent editorial , Modern Healthcare argues that the current national health information technology (IT) efforts should be abandoned since they can’t succeed...