Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) news from FierceHealthcare
NewsICD-10 switch could cost hospitals up to $20M
Transitioning over to ICD-10 could cost large hospitals between $2-5 million and up to $20 million for large systems, according to James Swanson, director of client services at Virtusa, an IT Read more...
Expect to see more iPads used at point-of-care
The use of iPads in healthcare settings is likely to surge in the coming year, according to a survey of nearly 950 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) members. Nearly 70 Read more...
Mary Pat Whaley - 10 Healthcare Bloggers We're Thankful For
Who: Mary Pat Whaley Blog: Manage My Practice About the blogger: Whaley is practice administrator for Halifax Regional Medical Center, a hospital in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., where she manages primary Read more...
Children's hospital creates chronic disease registry
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will use a $12 million grant to create a disease registry to track chronically ill patients. The searchable database will provide information on Read more...
Why you shouldn't store and process medical records online
For the first half of 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights has reported 119 instances of medical record breaches which have put at risk some 5 million Read more...
It might be a while before the iPad lives up to all the hype
It's been a little over six months since Apple's iPad debuted to much fanfare. Not long after its debut, speculation about what the gadget could do for healthcare was rampant. In February, Dr. Ben Read more...
Personalized advertising a new wave in healthcare marketing?
Don't look now, but targeted marketing, similar to techniques used by websites such as Amazon.com, is making its way into the healthcare sector. In other words, based on your recent purchase of Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Knowledge Networks says half of docs now use EMRs
Hard to believe, but 52 percent of specialists and 50 percent of primary-care physicians claim to be using EMRs, up from 42 percent and 38 percent, respectively, two years earlier, a new survey Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Canadian doc embraces flexible EMR after shunning template-based system in U.S.
Is the design of the American health system to blame for low EMR adoption? That seems to be the implication in a Technology for Doctors story headlined, "How I learned to stop worrying and love my Read more...
Feds propose stronger patient privacy rights
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a new federal healthcare information privacy rule yesterday that would expand patients' rights to access their information and restrict Read more...
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