Do Electronic Medical Records Need a Bottom-Up Approach?
Should electronic medical records be rolled out chiefly according to the needs of physicians and other providers? That’s the question debated by two physicians in this week’s Annals of Internal Medicine and discussed on the WSJ Health Blog.
First Meaningful Use Checks Arrive This Week
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it would disburse the first electronic health record adoption incentive payments this week, as was predicted by the agency as long ago as last July.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of E-Prescribing
E-prescribing (e-Rx) has been viewed by many as a dark and foreboding landscape in which physicians must have a broad, sweeping view of the electronic health care vista alternating with intimate, close-up reflections on each patient encounter. In reality, e-Rx accomplishes neither of these things perfectly. It is, however, here to stay.
More Patient Engagement Proposed for Stage 2 Meaningful Use
As the draft proposals for measures for meaningful use Stage 2 are taking shape, the panel has incorporated more emphasis on making the patient an active participant in healthcare and more exchange of health information as central to a number of the objectives.
Meaningful EMR Use Update
The uncertainty about the details of the program that have swirled within the HIT industry for the past 18 months are being laid to rest. So, what is next? How about Stage 2?
Fredericksburg Nephrology Associates, Inc., Successfully Attests to Meaningful Use Using Acumen EHR
Health IT Services Group (HITSG) announced on Monday that Fredericksburg Nephrology Associates in Fredericksburg, Virginia, successfully attested to meaningful use using Acumen nEHR version 6.0.
Meaningful Use Requirements Stretch Community Hospital EMR Vendors
EMR customers have varying degrees of confidence in their vendor’s ability to reach meaningful use requirements on time.
Administration Offers New Path For ACOs
Facing strong criticism of the proposed regulation for accountable care organizations, the Obama administration announced new options Tuesday to lure hesitant doctors and hospitals.
ASCC Funded Scientists in Kidney iPS Cell World First
Reporting online in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Australian Stem Cell Centre funded researchers have reported for the first time the generation of iPS cells from human kidneys. The development could have wide-ranging benefits for the understanding and treatment of kidney disease, in particular genetic kidney disease.
Cell Therapy Aims to Prevent Transplant Rejection
Cell treatment to prevent new organs being rejected without the need for lifelong courses of immune drugs is showing promise in mice and may one day make human transplants easier.
Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care
The nation’s major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set among Americans who are postponing or forgoing medical care.
Racial Disparities in Health Care: The Hundred Years’ War
In 1999 when the Federal government first acknowledged our nation had a problem with race and health care, minorities were less likely to receive bypass surgery, kidney transplants and dialysis. Twelve years later, racial disparities still persist.
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