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NewsGoogle Flu Trends a good warning system for EDs
Why wait for a slow, clunky government report to learn about illness trends in your area when, with the click of a mouse, you can do so in near real time? That's the gist of a report published this Read more...
HIE takes away the mystery of treating unconscious patients in the ED
The clinical scenario is familiar to many doctors, according to Dr. Paul Abramson, board member of the San Francisco Health Information Exchange: An elderly man, unconscious and seriously ill, Read more...
Criticisms of final 'meaningful use' rule start to emerge
The final rules on "meaningful use" of EMRs have been out for about a week and a half now. While the early responses were overwhelmingly positive, some criticisms have started to surface now that Read more...
HIMSS Virtual Conference: Business intelligence helps Connecticut hospital streamline ED
While many providers struggle to figure out what to do with massive storehouses of health data, some have found positive applications--with quantifiable results. An emergency department information Read more...
How Beth Israel audits medication reconciliation
At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, auditing medication reconciliation is a Joint Commission requirement, and also a pay-for-performance goal. In this article, John Halamka, MD, CIO at BIDMC, Read more...
Study: Hospital execs say IT can help poor patient flow
The following is your basic vendor-driven study, but the conclusions are still hard to dispute. A new survey backed by patient flow and tracking software vendor StatCom has concluded that 89 percent Read more...
Case study: KY hospital ED cuts patient wait times with EMR
King's Daughters Medical Center, a 385-bed regional hospital in Ashland, KY, has pulled off a trick many of its peers would envy. The not-for-profit cut its emergency department's length of stay from Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Senate pushes e-prescribing, too; Study says implanted medical history chips could save hundreds per ED patient; an
> Senate lawmakers say they're going to put their own provisions into place designed to encourage Medicare physicians to adopt e-prescribing. Read more...
CCHIT invites vendors to apply for EMR pilot
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has begun inviting electronic medical record vendors to apply for participation in the pilot test for its EMR certification Read more...
ALSO NOTED: British physicians boycott EMR database; FL hospital chain rolls out major IT project; and much more...
> Looks like there's a revolt brewing. According to one report, almost two-thirds of British family physicians will boycott the government's 50-million-patient EMR database. Read more...
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