Researchers: Health IT Creates Its Own 'Reality'
Electronic records create a third "reality" in healthcare--one beyond the patient's physical reality and the clinician's understanding of the issues and treatment--and yet another way to...
View ArticleOpenFDA Backstory: Breaking The Paperwork Backlog
The startup Captricity uses a combination of crowdsourcing and OCR to digitize mountains of paper records, particularly for government agencies and healthcare.Read more in the full article.read more
View ArticleOn EHR Data Integrity: A Patient's Perspective
Now that portions of patient EHRs and visit summaries are available via portals and meaningful use requirements, not only will the organizations’ internal users be complaining about system flaws, poor...
View ArticleNavy To VA: We Printed Out Health Records And Mailed Them
Decades after the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs Department developed separate electronic health records for military personnel and veterans, here’s how the Navy transfers potentially millions of pages...
View ArticleMarin General Hospital Nurses Warn That New Computer System Is Causing...
Of course, the ever-present euphemism for life-threatening EHR malfunctions and defects, i.e., "glitches" are the cause...Read more in the full article.read more
View ArticleIs Your Hybrid EHR-Paper Workflow Putting Patients At Risk?
Even the most die-hard EHR advocate knows that paper isn’t disappearing completely from the office any time soon. With plenty of providers still entirely entrenched in pen and prescription pad, there...
View ArticleIbáñez Talks about Open Health and VistA at All Things Open Conference
Luis Ibáñez...was up next to talk to us about Open Source in Healthcare. Luis’s story was so interesting – I hope I caught all the numbers he shared – but the moral of the story is that hospitals could...
View ArticleGuatemala Adopts iHRIS To Manage Health Workforce
Guatemala is the newest country to adopt the open source iHRIS software for tracking, managing, and planning the health workforce. At least 14 other countries are actively using the software.Read more...
View ArticleFour Years Later: The Impact Of The HITECH Act On EHR Implementations
Since 2009, Software Advice has gathered data on tens of thousands of practices looking to purchase medical software. We’ve tapped into that data to determine [the following]:Read more in the full...
View ArticleElectronic Record Keeping A Change That Has Some Doctors Cringing
For more than 40 years, paper records have worked just fine for Dr. Bob Proffitt and his patients...Read more in the full article.read more
View ArticleDocs Favor Paper Over Portals, Study Shows
Patient portals will become a big part of the requirements doctors must fulfill for Stage 2 meaningful use in the HER incentive program. And that means, doctors have a long way to go to get there,...
View ArticleDigital Health Records’ Risks Emerge As Deaths Blamed On Systems
When Scot Silverstein’s 84-year-old mother, Betty, starting mixing up her words, he worried she was having a stroke. So he rushed her to Abington Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania...Read more in the...
View ArticleDepartment Of Veterans Affairs: "They Are Rearranging The Deck Chairs On A...
Veterans Wait for Benefits as Claims Pile UpRead more in the full article.read more
View ArticleComputer Woes Hit Banner Hospital System
Banner Health grappled with a widespread computer outage Wednesday as hospitals and doctors resorted to backup paper systems to provide care for patients.Read more in the full article.read more
View ArticleCA Hospital Adds CPOE To VistA Implementation
It’s still rare these days to see a private hospital roll out open source EMR VistA, despite VistA’s excellent reputation. But one such hospital has not only implemented VistA, it’s added CPOE to its...
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