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Penn Study Shows How Electronic Medical Records Can Be Used to Test Drug Efficacy

Implications for circumventing studies too costly or unethical for clinical trial PHILADELPHIA – For years controversy has surrounded whether electronic medical records (EMR) would lead to increased patient safety, cut medical errors, and reduce healthcare costs. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered a way to get another bonus from the implementation of electronic medical records: testing the efficacy of treatments for disease. In the [...]

 

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High-tech healthcare benefits patients, study finds

Electronic medical records are the wave of the future, and Chicago area hospitals are already on board. Hospitals with more advanced record-keeping technology have fewer complications, lower mortality rates, and lower costs, according to a study released last week by Johns Hopkins University. The study looked at more than 40 hospitals with digital record systems and more than 160,000 patients in a six-month period. “It’s the right thing to do [...]

 

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HIMSS Explains Three Reasons to Support Pres. Obama’s Call to Computerize All Health Records Within Five Years

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), representing more than 20,000 individual members – of which 73% work in provider settings – and 350 corporate members, today announced its support for the health information technology (IT) provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan of 2009 proposed by Congress. HIMSS believes the inclusion of funding for health IT is essential if we are to meet President Obama’s goal of [...]

 

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Wireless Microphones for Dragon Naturally Speaking

In a recent comment by Tom Hamilton, he gave a nice review of a wireless microphone that can be used with Dragon Naturally Speaking Medical. I figured I’d been covering enough EMR politics and implementation lately that it was about time to mingle a little bit of technical content in the middle. I’ve been told a number of times that if you want to use Dragon Naturally Speaking medical, then [...]

 

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5 Reasons Your EHR Implementation Will Succeed

I recently read a really interesting and informative article called “Five Reasons Why EHR Implementations Fail.” My only problem with this post is that it focuses too much on the negative. Too many doctors (and all clinical staff) are looking for reasons to have their EHR fail and not enough of them are looking at the reasons why an EHR implementation will succeed. Therefore, here’s my 5 reasons why your [...]

 

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Study suggests EMRs can be used to test drug efficacy

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that electronic medical records can be used to test drug efficacy. Richard Tannen, MD, a professor of medicine at the university, was the lead researcher in the study to find out if patient data, as captured by EMR databases, could be used to obtain vital information as effectively as randomized clinical trials when evaluating drug therapies. “Our findings show [...]

 

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EMR & EHR Industry Contract

Considering the tremendous amount of political talk about EMR and EHR systems, you’d think that the number of EMR companies would continue to grow.  It makes sense that entrepreneurs would chase after the $$’s that they see being invested in EMR, EHR and health care IT.  However, I personally believe that the number of EMR companies will decrease in the next year rather than increase. The number one reason that [...]

 

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Why is Important to Learn About Web 2.0 and Medicine ?

I have been learning about the Web 2.0 for more than a year. Since February I have been writing about it in this blog. The purpose is to share with others what I know, to get more and more people involved with it. Not all my colleagues I have talked to about it really understand the concept or why it is so important to learn about it though. That is [...]

 

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Online Health care Services by Doctor

Starting on Thursday, residents of Hawaii will be able to pay a flat fee for a 10-minute online visit with a doctor. (Credit: American Well) For people in Hawaii, going to see the doctor just got as easy as booting up their PC. The state is the first to offer online physician visits statewide, under a program that kicks off Thursday. Residents can chat with a doctor over a standard [...]

 

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The New Intelligence & Healthcare

The volume, variety and velocity of data in healthcare is a very good example of where our world needs “new intelligence.” Such a new infrastructure would help us better manage and process medical records to lower the cost and increase the quality of healthcare, put more research and genetic data to work and shift from a system that treats disease to one that prevents and manages it. Check out this [...]