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Read More →By Nathan Gibbon community.advanceweb.com(Source) I attended an excellent Health Information Management program at the University of Pittsburgh. I was taught well, and I enjoyed my time there. In my classes we learned about the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR...
Read More →EMR developer Practice Fusion announced native iOS and Android versions of its web-based platform at the Health 2.0 conference held San Francisco this week. The app is currently in private beta and is expected to launch early next year. With the new apps providers will be able to view patient ...
Read More →The physiological statistics are important to judge health of a person, i.e. their body temperature, blood pressure, heart/breathing rate etc.! Patient monitoring equipment help to measure these vital signs, to let the doctor/care provider know overall health condition of the patient. Patient mo...
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An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is the digital version of paper-based medical record. It is owned by a single healthcare provider organization such as a hospital or physician and contains detailed information of the care provided at every encounter of the provider. EMR contains the data captur...
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The world healthcare IT market is expected to grow from $99.6 billion in 2010 to $162.2 billion in 2015, at a CAGR of 10.2% from 2010 to 2015. Need to cut healthcare costs, enhance clinical/administrative workflow of hospitals, and huge demand for faster, error-free, efficient healthcare delivery, ...
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Google Health By Dean Stephen Recently, Google announced that it will close Google Health to new consumers on January 1, 2012 and that the service will be retired a year later. Google Health was much different than Google as a search engine; it required that consumers use their site to upload their...
Read More →The Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization is recruiting north country residents to enroll in a health information technology certificate program as well as a bachelor’s degree in nursing program this fall. Mary E. Doohovskoy, the organization’s regional recruitment project manager, sai...
Read More →GE Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, announces the launch of its fully integrated Electronic Medical Record and practice management (PM) system for physician practices, Centricity* Practice Solution 10. Now with embedded reports that providers can use to track thei...
Read More →Telemedicine can be defined as interactive healthcare or transferring medical information using modern telecommunications. The use of communications and information technologies for the delivery of clinical care can be used by the pharmaceutical industry to improve therapeutic efficacy and compl...
Read More →EMR is a part of healthcare information technology that is used to make paperless computerized patient data in order to increase efficiency of hospital systems and reduce chances of errors in medical records. A substantial growth rate (more than 16%) of the U.S. healthcare IT spending and the go...
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Bulky patient charts holding countless pieces of information and handwritten physicians orders are becoming a thing of the past. Taking their place is the electronic medical record, which can transport patient information in real time with the click of a button. What are electronic medical records?...
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Since gadget-happy doctors got their hands on the iPad last year, many have turned it from a toy into a professional tool. Dr. Jeffrey Westcott, cardiology board chair at Swedish Medical Center, a four-hospital complex in Seattle, even sees it as a lifesaver. It can “help me avoid mistakes by ...
Read More →As the Obama administration pushes ahead with plans to increase the use of electronic medical records, two internal reports released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services revealed “significant concerns” about security gaps in the system. The Office of the Inspector Gener...
Read More →Patients are supposed to be the ultimate beneficiaries of the federal government’s electronic health records incentive programs. But there is another group that is benefiting from the EHR push — IT professionals. In fact, even as the unemployment rate went up throughout the past few years, local...
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