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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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What's the Use? January 7, 2010 12:01 PM by Cheryl McEvoy: If you've already pored through the NPRM on "meaningful use" and the IFR on electronic health record (EHR) implementation standards, then bravo. That's a whopping 692 pages in total--a major undertaking for anyone coming back from the holiday weekend. 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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