WASHINGTON, March 10 (UPI) — More than 41,000 doctors and 2,000 U.S. hospitals, with $3 billion in federal funding, have adopted health information technology, officials said. Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator for health information technology within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said […]
RiverView Health has partnered with Sanford Health to provide its patients with an integrated, state-of-the-art Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. The community-owned health system in northwestern Minnesota has entered into an associate agreement with Sanford Health, effective February 22, 2011. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Sanford to provide our patients […]
I’m looking forward to 2011, which among other steps in a healthy direction will deliver incentives for doctors and other medical care providers to adopt electronic health records (EHR). The push for better health IT (HIT) is long overdue. A few months ago I had the opportunity to hear Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for HIT in […]
What’s the large deal about your patient’s medical records? A patient medical record is one of the most essential documents which you have in a medical center or clinic. That is a huge file of patient charts that you simply have to retain for future use. Today, there is newer technology which will assist medical […]
Much of what we do several years ago is now deeply penetrated by the use of computer. Indeed a lot of things we used to accomplish manually regained a new face with the advent of the computer technology. There is just so much that you can do now with the computer and the internet. Major […]
American Medical Software Selects Intuit Health Patient Portal Solutions for Physician Practices Thousands of Small Group Practices Nationwide Can Interact with Patients Online Using a Self-Service Communication Platform Wednesday, 27 Oct 2010 | 8:30 AM EST EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. & CARY, N.C., Oct 27, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — American Medical Software (AMS) has selected Intuit Inc’s (Nasdaq:INTU) […]
October 25, 2010 (New Orleans, California) — Medical practices that have implemented an electronic health record (EHR) system report better financial performance than those that have not, according to a new report by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). Results were announced here at the MGMA 2010 Annual Conference. The findings come from the newly released Electronic […]
In a world transformed by digital data, doctors appear unscathed — collecting tons of paper charts and scrawling their prescriptions in a chicken scratch that only nurses and pharmacists can fathom. Physicians have been slow to convert to electronic record-keeping, even though health care experts say that digital patient records bring greater efficiencies and productivity […]