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How Electronic Medical Records Can Be Used To Test Drug Efficacy

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 first study of its kind, Richard Tannen, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the [...]

 

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Electronic Health Records: How to Spend the Money Wisely

So it looks as if the nation’s taxpayers are going to spend about $20 billion to accelerate the use of computerized medical records. In his press conference Monday night, President Obama went out of his way to explain why that money belonged in the economic stimulus package. It is, he said, a job-creating investment in both the present and the future that will improve the quality of care and save [...]

 

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New criteria facilitates EHR adoption in small, ambulatory physician practices

SCHAUMBURG., The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT)), the federally recognized body for testing and certifying electronic health records (EHRs), has announced it will develop dermatology-specific functionality criteria beginning in 2009. The CCHIT’s decision was in part a response to an application from the American Academy of Dermatology with support from the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, American Telemedicine Association, the Medical Dermatology Society, and the Society for Investigative [...]

 

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Using Emr Software in the Information Age

The medical information age. With the recent explosion in information and technology over the past twenty years come vast changes throughout every industry worldwide. The medical industry itself has not been exempt from the transition from paper forms of data, to computerized electronic forms. The revolution of converting huge amounts of records, x-rays, names and prescriptions is very time consuming but nevertheless, it must be done. The same thing is [...]

 

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How Doctors Will Use Their Stimulus Money

Energy has been getting a huge amount of play in President Obama’s stimulus package. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t look at another massive piece of the plan, namely, the modernization of the American healthcare system. It’s getting $189 billion of the total $787 billion. So, what does that mean, and where’s the money going to go? One element of modernization is to turn paper records into ones and [...]