Category: EHR
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MacPractice is the First OS X 10.9 Compatible Practice Management Software
MacPractice has announced that version 4.4.45+ 64-Bit MacPractice MD, MacPractice DC, MacPractice DDS and MacPractice 20/20 are compatible with OS X Mavericks and OS X Mountain Lion. MacPractice also announced recent iOS 7 compatible versions of Patient Check In, MacPractice Clipboard, and MacPractice iEHR for iPad with ePrescribe, and MacPractice Interface for iPhone. “A good…
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Can Cloud Computing Help Solve Healthcare’s Looming IT Crisis?
The title of this post comes from a whitepaper called “How Cloud Computing Can Help Solve Healthcare’s Looming IT Crisis” that was done by Intel together with CareCloud and terremark (A Verizon Company). My initial reaction when reading this whitepaper was “what looming healthcare IT crisis are they talking about?” The whitepaper makes the general…
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Next-Generation Voice Technology Brings The EMR To The Patient Care Conversation
Smart, hands-free, two-way, interactive voice solutions have arrived in the healthcare industry, and progressive CIOs are taking the power of voice to the next level – leveraging advances in natural-language voice communication to improve patient care and ascend the HIMSS EMRAM ladder. …read more
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Health System Sees 50% Improvement In Physical Therapy Documentation Time With EMR Voice Overlay
Butler Health System wanted to realize a productivity improvement in its physical therapy department, where assessments and progress visits involve detailed documentation. The Butler Memorial Hospital IV team currently uses an earlier version of voice-enabled technology from Honeywell, so the hospital knew the potential for productivity gains with voice-controlled EMR data entry. …read more
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No, installing an MU certified EHR does not mean you’ll be document-free or paperless
As I travel and speak with physician practices and hospital execs about health IT, I often hear questions about how practices can become paperless as they transition from manual to electronic processes. For those of you that have installed EHRs, you know that going digital does not mean that you’ll be paperless and you’ve probably…
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How Health IT Can Empower Caregivers: Alexis’s Story
November is National Caregivers Month, and the ONC salutes the over 90 million family caregivers in the United States for their often uncelebrated hard-work and tireless dedication to caring for loved-ones. Today, we celebrate one of those caregivers, Catherine Rose. Dr. Catherine Rose has been a caregiver for the past 7 ½ years to her…
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TURF: An EHR Usability Assessment Tool
The following is a guest post by Carl Bergman from EHR Selector. To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone talks about EHR usability, but no one does anything about it, at least until now. Led by Dr. Jiajie Zhang, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making (NCCD)…
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Skåne Healthcare Region is the first to integrate speech recognition into its EHR in Sweden
By Nuance Communications Inc. Allowing updated patient information to be made available to the entire organisation immediately Source: Skåne Healthcare Region is the first to integrate speech recognition into its EHR in Sweden