March 4th, 2010
The Veterans Affairs Department closed off access to the Defense Department’s huge electronic health record system on Monday because it found errors in some...
March 1st, 2010
Patient privacy dates back to ancient Greece, beginning with the physician and teacher Hippocrates, who is often called the father of...
March 1st, 2010
Patients don’t have enough information about electronic patient records and it is too hard for them to opt-out if they want to, the...
February 12th, 2010
What’s driving people craziest about the big national push to convert to EMRs? Maybe it’s the technology that some people don’t like. Maybe it’s...
January 28th, 2010
Electronic medical records that follow patients from doctor to doctor. Hospitals with instantaneous online access to lab results and health histories. Disease researchers with...
January 25th, 2010
A new study points to distrust in government and private industry when it comes to electronic health records.
December 7th, 2009
Private industry, not the federal government, will eventually drive health information technology initiatives, said David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology...
December 3rd, 2009
Personal health records have been around for awhile. Microsoft’s HealthVault, for instance, entered beta in 2007. Google jumped into the fray not...
December 3rd, 2009
In short, this sector is a long way from maturity. There are still huge problems to solve in the space.
Mixed feelings =...
December 2nd, 2009
Platforms provided by employers and insurers received an “F” rating from the report card.
…Katz said PPR could not grade the Partners/Programs on...
