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Smoking cessation drug not linked to an increased risk of self harm or depression
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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There is no strong evidence that the popular smoking cessation drug varenicline increases the risk of self harm or depression compared to other cessation products, according to new research published on BMJ.com today.
Online tool for tracking family health history gets upgrade
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Consumers now have a new tool to organize and share their family health histories. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday released an updated version of its "My Family Health Portrait."
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Nation's only citywide electronic health information exchange: Improving health and lowering costs
Oct 15, 2008 |
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Across the nation concerns about health-care quality and costs are growing. For the first time, both candidates aspiring to the nation's highest office are looking to greater reliance on electronic medical records as critical ...
State privacy rules reduce electronic medical sharing by 24 percent
Jul 13, 2009 |
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States that have passed privacy laws restricting the ability of hospitals to disclose patient information have seen the sharing of electronic medical records suffer by more than 24%, according to the Management Insights feature ...
New study looks at re-identification risks
Oct 14, 2009 |
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A recent study led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, found that the information in hospital prescription records can quite easily re-identify ...
Ownership of electronic health information must be addressed, article says
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Clarifying legal rights of patient control over electronic health records could be the key to making the best use of the huge amount of electronic medical information that the "Stimulus" funding will create in the next few ...
Health information exchange conquers new frontier: Emergency medical services
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Emergency medical responders typically know very little about the patients they treat at mass disasters, accident scenes, or other sites where an ambulance is dispatched for rapid response. That's true everyplace ...
Can pen and paper help make electronic medical records better?
Jul 20, 2009 |
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The results of a new study of the pen and paper workarounds employed by healthcare providers who use an electronic medical record system may help make electronic medical records even more useful to health-care providers and ...
Electronic tracking system can help diabetes patient care
Jul 06, 2009 |
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An electronic system with personalized patient information shared by diabetes patients and their primary care providers improved diabetes care and clinical outcomes, found a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). ...
Electronic health records are valuable but won't be a panacea
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Turns out most Americans are all for moving to a comprehensive system of electronic medical records. They just don't think it's going to save us any money when it comes to health care.
Penn study shows how electronic medical records can be used to test drug efficacy
Feb 06, 2009 |
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For years controversy has surrounded whether electronic medical records (EMR) would lead to increased patient safety, cut medical errors, and reduce healthcare costs. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School ...
Computerized support keeps prominence of name brand drugs at bay
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs. A study in the August issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine found that when clinicians received comput ...
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