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EHRs: Buy vs. Build, or the Best of Both
In the electronic health record (EHR) market, even though an enterprise solution is not an operating system, the parallels are clear. Healthcare organizations use expensive and complex proprietary systems that are difficult to maintain. The leading systems have prohibitive total costs of ownership. Ownership is undermined by vendor lock. The most important and valuable enhancements are held back for the next chargeable upgrade. Lack of interoperability is a business model.
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eICU Telehealth Data Allows Clinical Analytics For Researchers
Telehealth is mostly viewed as a quick way to review a skin rash with a physician through video conferencing or text messaging, not as a source of rich and comprehensive patient data for clinical analytics. But a new project coming out of MIT hopes to change that...
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Eilzabeth Warren: Internet 'Fast Lanes' Will Help 'Rich And Powerful'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren urged the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday to enact strong net-neutrality rules to ensure that all websites receive equal service. "Reports that the FCC may gut net neutrality are disturbing, and would be just one more way the playing field is tilted for the rich and powerful who have already made it," the Massachusetts Democrat wrote in a Facebook post.
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Einstein For Everyone
The Einstein Papers Project, the decades-long effort to compile and preserve the scientist’s professional work and personal writings, is today opening to the public as a free searchable database containing thousands of documents...
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Either Fix The Veterans Administration Or Stop Fighting Wars
When this country sends soldiers to war, their health needs better be paid for upon their return. If the United States cannot meet those promises and obligations, it's certainly time to stop funding these endless wars. The United States soldiers should be thought of first. Not the wars.
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Electronic Document Management – A Paperless Cure For The NHS?
Last year health secretary Jeremy Hunt gave the NHS the challenge of becoming paperless by 2018. Can the health service meet that deadline? Or will the NHS just end up with less paper than it did in 2013?...
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Electronic Health Record Patient Safety Issues Persist Long After 'Go Live' Date
Patient safety issues related to electronic health records (EHRs) persist long after the 'go live' date, concludes research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association...
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Electronic Health Records - Expensive, Disruptive And Here To Stay
Physicians have more to do these days and it has nothing to do with treating patients. Although staff shortages and increasing need for care are time consuming for providers and add responsibilities, the real culprit of lost work time, especially for Emergency Room physicians, is electronic health records (EHR).
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Electronic Health Records Increase Doctors’ Bureaucratic Burden
The average U.S. doctor spends 16.6 percent of his or her working hours on non-patient-related paperwork, time that might otherwise be spent caring for patients. And the more time doctors spend on such bureaucratic tasks, the unhappier they are about having chosen medicine as a career.
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Electronic Health Records: First, Do No Harm?
EHRs are commonly promoted as boosting patient safety, but are we all being fooled? InformationWeek Radio investigates. Read More »
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Electronic Prescribing Reaches Milestone
Surescripts, which bills itself as the country’s largest health information network, routed more than a billion electronic prescriptions in 2013. The number represents a majority – 58 percent – of all eligible prescriptions in the United States, sent by 73 percent of all office-based physicians...
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Elizabeth Warren's "Pharma Swear Jar" Idea
Elizabeth Warren has come out with a proposal for what she's calling a "pharmaceutical swear jar". Once a drug company had been fined, this bill would earmark a percentage of their profits over a multiyear period for use in NIH funding...
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Elsevier Acquisition Highlights the Need for Community-based Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
Like many others in the scholarly community, we were very disappointed to learn about the recent acquisition by Elsevier of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform. The acquisition is especially troubling for the hundreds of institutions that use Digital Commons to support their open access repositories. These institutions now find their repository services owned and managed by Elsevier, a company well known for its obstruction of open access and repositories...
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Elsevier Announces The Launch Of Open Access Journal: Biomolecular Detection And Quantification (BDQ)
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of a new open access journal, Biomolecular Detection and Quantification - BDQ...
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Elsevier Launches Open Access Journal That Will Publish Sound Research Across All Disciplines
High-tech publishing platform to be developed in cooperation with researchers, offering a new publishing option tailored to their needs...
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