Archive for May, 2008
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CBO assesses return on investment of HIT
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“The return on investment of health care information technology isn’t uniformly positive, according to a recent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office titled, Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology.
The underlying rationale for the report, which was requested by the Senate Budget Committee, is to sort out the federal government’s role in […]
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Healthcare IT Adoption by Clinicians: It’s a two-way street
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“On a recent post titled “Improving Preventive Care Compliance” I nudged my clinical colleagues to be more proactive in reminding patients about needed preventive services. I made comparisons to service notifications that are typical in other industries and the relative paucity of this practice in clinical medicine. I also provided an example of how technology […]
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The Efficient MD -Eavesdrop on Doctors and Medical Students on Twitter
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“One MD discusses using Twitter….several others are beginning to use the platform and I have signed up but have not added the Medical Quack yet…perhaps soon…John Mack in the pharma area has moved on to Twitter as well, but as of this morning the network was experiencing some issues…Twitter stated it was due to the […]
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The Telehealth Promise-Better Health Care and Cost Savings for the 21st Century
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“The growing cost of medical care and gaps in coverage are creating enormous pressure on both providers and public policymakers to identify new strategies for delivering cost-effective and quality care to all citizens. Many health care experts believe that part of the answer lies with telehealth applications made possible by the increasing power of information […]
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Access To Electronic Medical Records Significantly Increases Efficiency Of Emergency Care
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“A new study led by Paul Sierzenski, MD, RDMS, of Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE, discusses the benefits gained from providing health care workers with immediate access to patient medical records during a mass casualty incident.”
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ScienceDaily, 31 May 2008
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SEEDIE, the Society for Exorbitantly Expensive and Difficult to Implement EHR’s, and commercialized VistA, the possible Linux of Health IT
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“While I have nothing to do with the following sites, they contain in a dark-humor sort of way a lot of truths about the current state of the commercial EMR vendor marketplace:
SEEDIE, the Society for Exorbitantly Expensive and Difficult to Implement EHR’s.”
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S Silverstein, Health Care Renewal, 30 May 2008
