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Comment on Meaningful Use
March 10, 2010 10:06 AM by Lisa Algeo
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finally released the long-awaited proposed definition of meaningful use as it applies to electronic health records (EHRs), it opened up a 60-day public comment period. In the spirit of "full" disclosure, Read More...
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Military Builds EHR for White House
March 9, 2010 8:12 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Jobs I'd never want: First Doc, aka the President's primary care physician. Think about how Ford's physician must have cringed whenever he took a spill on the stairs, or the constant concern of how all that stress could be affecting Clinton's thumper. Read More...
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EHRs Featured in Olympics Ad
February 16, 2010 10:44 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
I tend to watch the Super Bowl for the ads, so it's no surprise that while tuning in to the 2010 Olympics this weekend, a clever commercial caught my eye. GE Healthcare ran this ad about electronic health records (EHRs), showing how the technology connects Read More...
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Update: Fans, Critics Launch Opinions on iPad
January 29, 2010 9:18 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Less than 48 hours after Apple announced the iPad and before anyone's gotten a real hand on the thing, there are clearly defined yeas and nays. As expected, some doctors and chief information officers are cheerleading the product for its portability. Read More...
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Medical Records: Help or Hindrance in Haiti?
January 19, 2010 9:40 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Hundreds of thousands are injured, communications are scant and trauma centers are makeshift, at best. So how are medical records maintained? They're not, according to reports surfacing from Haiti. Eyewitness accounts tell of overrun hospitals resorting Read More...
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PHRs Go Overseas
October 29, 2009 9:26 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
If you've been following Jay's blog, " XY Files in and MT World ," recently, you know there have been some frightening reports of medical records being sold overseas. It's enough to make you hunker down in the States and demand your records stay local. Read More...
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Retail Clinic Check-up
June 25, 2009 3:30 PM by Lynn Jusinski
I'm what you might call "doctor phobic." I haven't had a check up since 2001, and that was required to get into college. After high school, I moved to the Philadelphia suburbs from quiet nook upstate in a rural area lovingly referred to as the "Polish Read More...
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Doctors Face Patient Scrutiny
June 24, 2009 1:42 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
For the past few weeks, I've had Michael Jackson's "Somebody's Watching Me" stuck in my head. I blame Geico for making it the theme song for its ubiquitous ad campaign. (Seriously, that bug-eyed bundle of money is everywhere .) But today, the ditty popped Read More...
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