Digital Medical Records Get Five Year Deadline
Posted by AMS Date: 6 SEP 10:07 am Share
Next year, docs’ offices, hospitals can get federal money to help with cost.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday rolled out an ambitious five-year plan for moving doctors and hospitals to computerized medical records, promising greater safety for patients and lower costs.
Starting next year, doctors’ offices and hospitals can get federal money to help...
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Pros And Cons To Converting To Electronic Medical Records
Posted by AMS Date: 30 AUG 8:23 pm Share
The Department of Health and Human Services recently released rules for creating electronic health records. These rules came days after HHS issued regulations to safeguard the privacy of medical records.
This digital revolution could dramatically improve medical care. The RAND Corporation estimates America could save $77 billion a year with health information technology (HIT).
But policymakers...
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How EMR Records Can Be Helpful
Posted by AMS Date: 24 AUG 6:38 am Share
Electronic Medical Records (EMR for short) can improve your healthcare facility in a variety of ways. Anything that your organization can do to provide better healthcare to patients is essential, and with EMR you can provide more efficient healthcare, as well as reduce errors and increase the effectiveness of doctor collaboration efforts.
Of the many...
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Tweeting Their Way For New Patients – Social Media
Posted by AMS Date: 17 AUG 7:32 am Share
Hospitals are turning to social networking in an effort to market themselves to new patients who seem to be looking more to social media to choose the kinds of products and services they use.
Earlier this year, a Baltimore television station incorrectly reported that Greater Baltimore Medical Center had been invaded by an armed robber....
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Health-care overhaul: Doctors must go digital
Posted by AMS Date: 10 AUG 1:25 pm Share
Hundreds of thousands of paper sheets bulge from the weathered charts in the medical office of Dr. Tahsina Atiquzzaman.
Patient histories, stress tests and results from colonoscopies are piled in filing cabinets, wall shelves and storage closets in her Kissimmee private practice, where she sees more than 5,000 patients each year.
But the internal-medicine practitioner —...
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