Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
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Peace Corps plans EHR system in 2013
The Peace Corps plans to acquire a comprehensive electronic health records system to serve its volunteers stationed in 77 developing countries. The agency wants to develop a proof of concept electronic health record (EHR) and test However, the Peace Corps faces challenges in establishing an EHR that can reach all its volunteer posts.
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Raxa - Open source EMR software for rural healthcare systems
Many people in this world do not have ready access to healthcare providers and have little or no control over their personal health information. The few who do have access are starting to see the potential benefits of using information technology (IT) like electronic medical record (EMR) system to improve their own health. These systems offer an opportunity to reduce healthcare costs while simultaneously improving quality of care. This is particularly true of Raxa, an 'open source' EMR project based in India. Read More »
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Report on the Global OpenMRS Community Meeting in Malawi - Towards Evidence Based Health Service Delivery and Interoperability
One hundred seventy five members of the worldwide OpenMRS community–representing 20 countries–met in Malawi this past December for the 2017 OpenMRS Implementers’ Conference. This event was the second consecutive year a national government sponsored this global meetup, with Uganda hosting and sponsoring this meeting the previous year. The December conference was hosted by Malawi’s Ministry of Health and key-noted by ministry officials and leaders such Maganizo Monawe, Senior HIS Technical Advisor; and Anthony Muyepa, Director General at National Commission for Science and Technology.
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Rishabh Software
Rishabh Software offers effective healthcare solutions in the form of custom Web-based applications that will reduce costs and enhance productivity. We focus on EHR and shared services solutions that deliver immediate and measurable value. We leverage one of the world's leading open source EHRs, OpenEMR, to provide clinical applications. We also manage non-core, yet critical, administrative functions on behalf of clients, allowing organizations to focus on what matters most.
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Rush Medical Center Demoes Patient-Centered Blue Button 2.0 Mobile App at White House Event
Information technology has changed the world, and now it’s changing health care in dramatic and fast-moving ways. Rush is a nationally-recognized leader in using IT to achieve better outcomes, lower costs and improve the patient experience. This leadership reached the White House on Monday, when...Rab and Boutrs presented MyRush Mobile, an app for mobile phones developed by Rush’s information systems department, to representatives of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, including CMS director Seema Verma. The presentation was part of the Blue Button 2.0 Conference, a gathering of software developers held in the White House South Court Auditorium.
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Samuel Shem Calls for Using VistA and the VA Model of Care to Solve the Physician Burnout Crisis
On November 1st Newsweek published an extraordinary Op-Ed by Samuel Shem titled Why Computerized Medical Records Are Bad for Both You and Your Doctor. In the article, Shem, pen name for the American psychiatrist and well-known author Stephen Joseph Bergman, presents evidence that poorly designed electronic medical records (EMRs) and over-regulation are to blame for the growing crisis of physician burnout and suicide. The rate of suicides among physicians has risen to a staggering number--three per day. Shem argues that there is a "better way," and that is shown by the electronic health record (EHR) system used by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA's EHR is called VistA. Shem's view is supported by a large and increasing number of physicians and nurses. Read More »
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ShandsHealth Goes Live with Epic; Company Penetration of the Hospital Market
If it's true that one-fourth of the physicians in the U.S. use Epic systems, than a much higher percentage than this use the system in our larger hospitals. What's the significance of all of this? Simply put, a major consolidation of IT power and influence is developing in the hands of the executives of privately-held Epic.
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Side Effects May Include Hospital Consolidation
Although the Supreme Court has finished debating the constitutionality of the Obama Administration’s health care reform, the ripple effect of its initial passage has already begun. Across southern Idaho, hospital mergers have become the go-to solution for health care providers struggling to survive with the reforms.
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Slow Death by EMR or: How I Learned to Stop Clicking and Love Google Glass
Here's a dirty little secret that I'll share with you: the clinical usability of current-generation electronic medical record (EMR) systems is nothing short of atrocious. If the Geneva Convention's proscription against torture extended to healthcare information technology (HIT), most vendors would be out of business and behind bars. But you probably already knew that: a November 2013 article in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine (AJEM) found that community emergency physicians spend 44 percent of their time interacting with EMRs and click up to 4,000 times in a 10-hour shift.
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Stephen F. Austin Community Health Network (SFACHN)
Stephen F. Austin Community Health Network (SFACHN) was established in 2008 to provide accessible and affordable healthcare for people of Brazoria County. That year, the Center had one health care provider with three exam rooms providing care at the Adoue Family Health Center. Since that time, the Center has grown substantially, adding a dental department, women’s health care, behavioral health counselors, and psychiatry.
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Sunset Systems
Sunset Systems has been a prolific contributor to the OpenEMR project since 2005. Its owner, Rod Roark, has been one of the two administrators of the project since then. Rod is a very experienced software developer and visionary, having created several successful commercial software products in a variety of industries and now focuses on open source platforms, OpenEMR in particular, and the needs of its users. Sunset Systems is primarily focused on software development as opposed to production support Read More »
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Taking medical records into the digital age
...With a growing population and an increase in the number of patients, the pressure on doctors and hospital staff has increased drastically in the last decade. It has become very difficult for a physician to track a patient's medical history (including past visit information, lab results, previous medications, and drug allergies) through a traditional system. Read More »
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Tampa General Hospital and USF Health Implement careMESH to Advance Care Team Collaboration with Community Providers
careMESH today announced that it has launched its services with both Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and USF Health (USF). Integrated with TGH's Epic Electronic Medical Record (EMR), patient admission and discharge notifications are automatically and digitally sent to the patient's primary care physician, and clinical staff are able to send referrals and transitions of care to any provider in the country. "We have long sought new ways to engage with the community and better communicate and collaborate with partner physicians and practices while ensuring operational efficiency and patient privacy. We were drawn to careMESH because they solve a key challenge: how to move all communications with external clinicians to digital communications," said Scott Arnold, Executive VP & Chief Information Officer for Tampa General Hospital.
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Tech Glitches at One VA Site Raise Concerns About a Nationwide Rollout
Spokane, Washington, was supposed to be the center of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ tech reinvention, the first site in the agency’s decade-long project to change its medical records software. But one morning in early March, the latest system malfunction made some clinicians snap. At Spokane’s Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center, the records system — developed by Cerner Corp., based in North Kansas City, Missouri — went down. Staffers, inside the hospital and its outpatient facilities, were back to relying on pen and paper. Computerized schedules were inaccessible. Physicians couldn’t enter new orders or change patients’ medications.
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The Costly Darkside Of EMR Implementations
Dr. Billings explores the costly darkside of EMR implementations significant maintenance, development and consultancy costs after implementing an EMR system Read More »
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