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Written by Alice LaPlante
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Wednesday, 19 September 2007 07:30 |
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Which portable device is right? Only you can say for sure.
Over the past 24 months, physicians' offices have begun investing heavily in automated point-of-care (POC) systems that boost the quality of patient care at the same time that they improve doctor productivity. Although primarily designed to operate on stationary desktop PCs and workstations, these applications increasingly include modules that support portable handheld devices like personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones as well as tablet computers—no surprise, given the rising popularity of these relatively new categories of hardware among healthcare professionals.
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Written by Scott Koegler
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Monday, 22 September 2008 06:39 |
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Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems have demonstrated their ability to improve the quality of patient care and safety. Healthcare institutions, both small and large, that have implemented an EHR system have also experienced the financial benefits that come along with it. Additionally, recent developments, including President Bush's public support for a National Health Information Infrastructure, are supporting a shift by medical groups towards the widespread use of information technology to improve care and reduce costs. It’s no wonder that more and more organizations are looking to Electronic Health Records to automate and streamline the clinician's workflow.
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Written by Alice LaPlante
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 03:17 |
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Dr. Paul M. Wolf vividly remembers the day the woman came into the emergency room of the hospital where he was serving his residency. She had a severe rash that was getting progressively worse in front of his eyes. “Clearly, we didn’t have time to mess around,” says Wolf, an internist who has a solo practice in Austin. He thought there was a chance that it was Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS), an extremely serious and frequently fatal illness in which cell death causes separation of the epidermis from the dermis.
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Written by Alice LaPlante
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 05:59 |
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Consult different authorities and you’ll get varying estimates of the rate of adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), ranging from 60 percent down to less than five percent. Although a large part of this is due to the discrepancy between implementations of in-patient (acute) and out-patient (ambulatory) systems, a bigger reason is that EMRs themselves encompass such a broad range of varying functionality.
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Written by Pam Baker
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 03:44 |
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The medical business isn’t what it used to be. The pressures on doctors are steadily bearing down, all but crushing the independent practice out of existence and stifling the aspirations of larger firms. “Physicians have a fairly depressing view of medicine,” says Dr. Thomas Handler, a physician himself who is now an analyst at Gartner Research. ”Sixty-percent in a recent poll said that if they could turn back the clock, they wouldn’t be a doctor at all. Thankfully, technology has the potential to relieve some of that pressure and depression.”
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