Category: Health IT

Which IT trend is most promising? 29% of provider execs say telemedicine

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MIT professor says healthcare needs international partnerships to improve telemedicine

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EHR vendors stock report: Week of Aug. 13-17

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I didn’t become a physician to do data entry

The trouble began when I needed to open the electronic health record (EHR) system for the tenth time that day. EHRs have significantly changed the way we practice medicine. They have completely eliminated the need for storage and transport of paper charts, reduced prescription errors secondary to illegible handwritings of physicians and provided an excellent […]

Cerner to take over IT department at Texas hospital

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ONC Forum Addresses Transforming Patient Care through Interoperability

The recent ONC Interoperability Forum brought people together from ONC, its federal partners, the healthcare industry and the technology sector to learn about recent efforts to advance interoperability nationwide and identify concrete actions in respon…

Physicians must reclaim the medical record

A guest column by the American College of Physicians, exclusive to KevinMD.com. I recently saw a new patient who came to our practice following a lengthy hospitalization. He is in his 80s with a fairly complex medical history typical of many in this age range. Yet, after carefully sifting through my first introduction to this […]

SwedishAmerican hospital in Illinois goes live on Epic after 3 years of prepwork

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All of US News’ top 20 hospitals use Epic

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What types of PHI are office-based physicians sharing? CDC report finds out

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