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 […]
As VARs and health care companies look for answers, there’s no shortage of consternation over the real meaning of “meaningful use.” Now, an updated version of the definition has been released, providing a more detailed, simpler map for providers to follow. Stage One of “Meaningful Use” Electronic Health Records (EHR) guidelines finally arrived from the U.S. Department […]
Intelligent use of electronic health records—even those collected from multiple health systems—can alert providers to harmful medical practices. That’s how Kaiser Permanente’s analysis of 459,000 pediatric health records revealed that young children who received the combo MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella, varicella) vaccine experienced twice the rate of febrile seizures as did children who received two separate shots—one for […]