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October 23rd, 2007—Baton Rouge—La. coalition promoting e-health records. A coalition of health officials, national experts and health-care industry professionals will launch a new Web site, EHRtoday.org, on Friday to help educate consumers about the importance and benefits of electronic health records. The group is making the announcement at the Louisiana Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual meeting…..Full Story Here
October 14th, 2007—DELHI Delhi Hospital informatics nurse Brent Harris demonstrated Monday in front of state legislators automatic medicine chart retrievals with the use of a COW. COW is short for computer on wheels. Some rural hospitals connected by computer
October 5th, 2007—Microsoft launched a free, ad-supported online health portal called HealthVault yesterday that allows people to upload their medical records to the Web and share the information with doctors.Your Health Data
October 4th, 2007—Quality officials, government and insurance representatives and healthcare practitioners gathered in Washington for the National Quality Forum’s annual membership meeting and policy conference to encourage the industry to increase its quality, efficiency and safety reporting through the use of solid information technology. Using IT to Enhance Quality
Investments in clinical information systems, such as electronic prescribing and computerized physician order entry systems, will likely affect a hospital’s long-term competitiveness, according to a report by the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Health Data Management reports…iHealthBeat
Report: Health IT Could Boost Competitiveness of Hospitals
September 21, 2007
Natchez Regional Medical Center, a 179-bed hospital here, will implement a subscription-based electronic health record and forms automation system…Natchez Hospital Goes Digital
For the past year, Roy Peacock has been having an e-mail relationship with his doctor.
First it was just a casual hello to get acquainted. Then, after a couple of visits to his doctor’s office, Peacock, a minister at Preston Baptist Church in Preston, began receiving e-mails about his blood-test results, encouragement as he waited for other results and changes to his blood pressure medication as his diet and exercise habits lowered his numbers…The Doctor Will Email You Now
When urologist John C. Lin of Gilbert, AZ, was shopping for an EHR last year, he wanted a product that had the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT)’s stamp of approval. Because certification costs a lot and “takes a commitment,” he says, it implies that a software company will be around for a while….Why EHR Certification Matters
There has been no HHS action to solidify and streamline federal health information technology (IT) policies to provide solid patient privacy protections five months after the Government Accountability Office recommended these actions, GAO officials told a House subcommittee last week…GAO Tells Lawmakers Patient Privacy Proposals Not Being Implemented