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Electronic Medical Records: An Obamanomic Step Toward Improved Health Care

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created May 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 weblog

The Obama Administration's goal to improve the entire health care system in the USA begins with an incremental first step by introducing nearly 500,000 physicians to electronic medical records via the American Recovery and ...





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Google Health: A time saver, but privacy slayer?

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created May 29, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Two giants in the online world, Microsoft and Google, have released web-based applications to manage health records. And while these programs could make managing your health records easier, experts wonder about the effect ...


Patient privacy focus of Amgen suit

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created Jan 09, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two former employees with the California biotech company Amgen Inc. allege the company persuaded sales people to access patient records to boost sales.


Patient privacy assured by electronic censor

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created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newly developed software will help to allay patients' fears about who has access to their confidential data. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making describes a comp ...


Nation's only citywide electronic health information exchange: Improving health and lowering costs

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created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

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created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Health information exchange conquers new frontier: Emergency medical services

Health information exchange conquers new frontier: Emergency medical services

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created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Study finds creating unique health ID numbers would improve health care quality, efficiency

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created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Creating a unique patient identification number for every person in the United States would facilitate a reduction in medical errors, simplify the use of electronic medical records, increase overall efficiency and help protect ...


Google has invited people to store "end-of-life" wishes

Google Health to safeguard 'end-of-life' wishes

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created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google on Thursday invited people to store "end-of-life" wishes at its free online health records management service.


Medical insurance documents shed light on kidney transplant patients' health

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created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Billing claims from health insurance companies can provide insights on the long-term health of kidney transplant patients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Ne ...


A sensible censor for sharing medical records

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created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly developed MIT software will help to allay patients' fears about who has access to their confidential records, facilitating the use of that data for medical research.



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