Category: Health IT

New Rules Will Ease Patients’ Access To Electronic Medical Records, Senate Panel Says

By Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News and Erika Fry, Fortune in Botched Operation, Cost and Quality, electronic health records, Health Industry, Health IT, health records, Kaiser Health News, medical errors, patient safety
March 26, 2019

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), head of the influential HELP committee, wants to make it easier to share and store detailed medical histories.

Allscripts expands digital platform

By Becker's Hospital Review in Becker's Hospital Review, Channels, EHRs, Featured
March 25, 2019

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Carefully consider every aspect of the integration of AI into health care

By Ton La, Jr. in Health IT, Hospital-Based Medicine, KevinMD, Tech
March 23, 2019

AI, artificial intelligence, is all the rage right now in medical news media. And this has many practicing physicians, even medical students, concerned. Will AI make diagnose heavy specialties such as dermatology and radiology obsolete? Can AI give ris…

Knowing how artificial intelligence works empowers clinicians to be at the forefront of using it

By Kathryn Peper, MD in Health IT, KevinMD, Tech
March 22, 2019

Physicians and other health care professionals are uniquely suited to understand artificial intelligence. They’ve studied or routinely use mathematics, data analysis, and algorithms. They comprehend pattern recognition, decision trees, rules-base…