By Amanda Patanow on
4/27/2009
Electronic prescribing has seen significant growth in adoption and use of critical components, according to the annual National Progress Report on E-Prescribing.
The report, released by Alexandria, Va.-based Surescripts, documents the status of e-prescribing adoption and use in the United States from 2006 through 2008.
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By Amanda Patanow on
4/20/2009
What would it mean to you never to have to worry that you forgot to tell your doctor about some past condition? Or never to have to fill out another medical form? Or never to have to call 11 times just to get your medical records when you need them?
For many people, these are little annoyances; for some, they are major headaches. But they should all disappear when the medical profession switches over to digital record keeping.
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By Amanda Patanow on
4/13/2009
The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is unclear on the development of health information exchanges, and the deadlines attached to incentives have been reported all over the map.
Regardless, John Halamka, MD, CIO of Harvard Medical School and the CareGroup Health System, sounded the battle cry to a packed room Tuesday morning: “Implement now.”
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By Amanda Patanow on
4/6/2009
Rep. Ed Homan of Tampa rolled out a plan Wednesday that he said would expand Florida's thinning ranks of doctors while improving care of local Medicaid patients.
Homan heads the House's Health and Family Services Policy Council, which on Wednesday approved his proposal for a pilot project to send Medicaid patients in Hillsborough and Alachua counties to federally funded nonprofit health
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By Amanda Patanow on
3/30/2009
Healthcare reform, as proposed under the Obama administration, will bring some 'real changes' for small physician practices, according to Nydia Velázquez, chairman of the House Committee on Small Business.
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By Amanda Patanow on
3/23/2009
PaperFree Tampa has the ambitious goal of digitizing every prescription and patient history written not only in the 10-county area surrounding Tampa and St. Petersburg, but also, eventually, in the rest of the country.
The PaperFree Tampa project stands on the shoulders of the regional leadership that succeeded in beating out 90 other markets in the country for a $3M grant from the Center for Community Health Leadership in 2007.
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