Tag Archives: Medicine

Community Hospitals Adopting IT Faster Than Ever

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

By Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News OREM, UT – The community hospital that still relies exclusively on a paper medical record is rapidly moving toward extinction, according to a new report from research firm, as meaningful use drives a jump … Continue reading →

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ONC Summit: Consumers Want Providers to Speed EHR Deployment

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

By Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News WASHINGTON – Electronic health records will become the norm, sooner than later, experts said at a summit hosted Friday by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). The bottom line, said … Continue reading →

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Improving the Physician–Nurse Dynamic

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

By Jennifer Larson, contributor August 26, 2011 - Can doctors and nurses learn to get along well enough to collaborate? Can they truly be partners in providing excellent patient care? Many health care experts now say “Yes.” But that hasn’t always … Continue reading →

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The Health IT Standards Committee Endorses EHR Vocabulary

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

By Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT The Health IT Standards Committee has endorsed a single set of vocabulary standards and a single guide for putting them in place for each area of quality reporting measures, an accomplishment that some individuals … Continue reading →

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HIE’s Save Payers Big Bucks

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

By Ken Terry,  Fierce Health IT News A study of emergency-department visits conducted by Humana in the Milwaukee area shows that payers can save money if EDs have access to community health information exchanges (HIEs). When ED clinicians queried patients‘ … Continue reading →

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