Electronic Medical Records

By  Richard Pizzi, Associate Editor  05/07/08  Healthcare IT News The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week announced a new pilot project that encourages traditional Medicare beneficiaries to use an online...

Reposted from Dark Daily.  Follow up on previous post here.  Because healthcare is about to embark on a major digitization of paper records, lots of new corporate players are positioning themselves to profit from this activity. The...

I posted a previous note about the value of all clinical information derived from health system records in EMRs or PHRs here. This is volume 2 on the same theme. Several years ago as an intern I was charged with caring for a patient who...

Docs Can Get Free EMRs—But They Come with Advertising! Reposted from Dark Daily posting One barrier to adoption of EMR (Electronic Medical Records) in physicians’ offices is the cost. Doctors in smaller groups have demonstrated their...

I had a conversation recently with colleagues from pediatric, cardiology and surgery that gave me some ideas about the pertinence of EMRs, EHRs and what the value of all the data is worth. From time to time, I have had to access medical records...

Posted by Jacob Goldstein Everybody’s been waiting to see what Google’s working on in health care. We may get a look soon: The Cleveland Clinic said yesterday it’s launching a pilot program with Internet-search giant Google. It sounds...