POSTS TAGGED AS EMR

Business Intelligence for Hospitals

While hospitals still struggle with implementing electronic medical records, there’s also a need for analytics that can mine the [MORE]

Digital Identities

Getting approval signatures on clinical trial documents is something like a series of speed bumps on a super highway, [MORE]

Mobile Platforms Forecast

It’s not a matter of knowing the need, but rather how to act on the need that is the [MORE]

The Army’s Mobile EMR

Most arguments over data entry into electronic medical records pale by comparison to doing that work under combat conditions. [MORE]

Electronic Identification, Free for Physicians

At the Medical Automation Conference earlier this month, Dr. Peter Tippett, Healthcare Director for Verizon, reiterated Verizon’s announcement of [MORE]

mPHR, the “Killer App”

According to a Deloitte report, a personal health record embedded in a cell phone or similar mobile device (”mPHR”) [MORE]

“Blue Botton” Participation

In Leroy Hood’s “4P” vision, medicine of the future will be predictive, preventative, personalized and participatory.  Participatory means informed [MORE]

Kaiser Is Wired

After ten years and $4 billion, Kaiser Permanente has completed installations of an electronic health record system in its vast [MORE]

Electronic Informed Consent

Old fashioned clinical researchers prefer to rely on paper informed consent forms, just as old fashioned hospitals would rather [MORE]

SIIM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, June 3-6, 2010

At the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine’s annual meeting, the program will feature a “bootcamp” for physicians, sessions on [MORE]

Epic on the iPhone

Haiku is a simple and lovely Japanese non-rhyming verse genre, which may be why electronic health record maker, Epic [MORE]

Apple’s Tablet for Healthcare

Bloggers are an interesting lot who sometimes hit the nail on the head.  This piece contents that Apple’s [MORE]

GE’s eHealth

General Electric has created a new business unit-eHealth-aimed at helping physicians and patients enter their electronic medical records for both [MORE]

WiFi Healthcare Devices

The technology marketing research firm, Allied Business Intelligence, Inc. (Oyster Bay, NY) projects that the global market for WiFi enabled [MORE]

National Telemedicine Initiatives

In a broad review of telemedicine applications, researchers Rashid Bashshur (Univ. of Michigan) and Gary Shannon (Univ. of Kentucky) have [MORE]

No Interest Loans for EMRs

General Electric has created a $100m fund to offer physicians no interest loans if they adopt GE’s Centricity EMR.  So, [MORE]

DOD/VA Electronic Health Record

On April 9, the Obama administration announced its plan for linking Defense Department and Veterans’ Affairs medical records into one [MORE]

Ups and Downs in Storefront Clinics

Telemedicine is still looking for its economic footing.  CVS Caremark is temporarily closing ninety of its 550 MinuteClinics now that [MORE]

US Spending on Healthcare

In the three-quarters of a trillion dollar economic stimulus President-elect Obama is proposing, about $100 billion is slated for healthcare-roughly [MORE]

McKesson’s Strategy for Personalized Medicine

Digital HealthCare has an interesting interview about personalized medicine it conducted with Andrew Mellin, McKesson’s VP for Predictive Care Solutions.  [MORE]