Tag: Medical
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British Doctors Fear Repercussions Of Sharing EMR Data With Patients
Like their American counterparts, British doctors fear giving patients too much access to their electronic health records, according to a new survey. The survey was conducted by a non-profit group called the Medical Protection Society, which provides professional indemnity coverage to doctors, dentists and health professionals globally. Researchers there found that 75 percent of patients responding…
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Reducing preventable hospital readmissions may take longer, say researchers
Achieving widespread reductions in preventable hospital readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries may take longer than many health care professionals originally anticipated, according to researchers at Penn State, the Weill Cornell Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Report Highlights Difficulties of Reducing Readmission Rates Among Medicare Beneficiaries
According to a report from researchers at Penn State, the Weill Cornell Medical College, and the University of Pennsylvania, reducing preventable readmission rates among Medicare beneficiaries may take longer than expected due to the challenges of care coordination. One-in-five Medicare beneficiaries returns to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, costing a total of $18…
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EHR and HIT News for April 17th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes two partnership items, the first from Health Solutions Plus and Context4 Healthcare allowing shared customers to streamline processes and the second from Creative Computing Solutions , and Socrata who have announced a strategic partnership that they claim will help federal agencies leverage data to make informed mission and program…
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New study protocol will create EHR patient safety guides
Researchers have launched a project to develop new tools to reduce patient safety risks associated with electronic health records, according to a new article published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making . read more
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CDS can make best-practices guidelines more accessible
Electronic health records offer the opportunity to better integrate clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) at the point of care, but the technology and physician practice must evolve, according to a paper published at BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making . read more
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CCS Medical named winner in national Competitive Bidding Program of CMS
CCS Medical, a leading provider of home delivery medical equipment and supplies, announced today that it has been named a winner in the national Competitive Bidding Program of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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SuccessEHS and Welch Allyn Team Up to Integrate SuccessEHS 6.1 EHR with Welch Allyn Devices
SuccessEHS and Welch Allyn have announced the successful integration of four Welch Allyn devices with the SuccessEHS 6.1 EHR and Practice Management solution. The integration provides effortless data collection with data obtained by the integrated devices flowing directly into the patient’s electronic chart. “The introduction of this connectivity furthers our mission to help clients achieve…
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EHR and HIT News for April 10th
Today’s EHR and HIT News focuses on customer acquistion news with updates from Royal Solutions Group, eClinicalWorks and Perceptive Software. There is also an announcement of a group of cloud based services that can help achieve meaningful use from Evolve Exchange.
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Mount Sinai Announces Personalized Medicine Platform
The Mount Sinai Medical Center, the New York City-based 1,171 bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility, has announced it's creating a new data management and analysis platform that will be able to communicate with the organization’s electronic health record. The platform, Mount Sinai says, will be able to give doctors real-time therapeutic and diagnostic guidance…