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- Poll: Confidence in e-health records rises
A majority of Americans are confident electronic medical records could help improve quality of care, reduce medical errors and decrease health care costs, a new poll found. The survey also noted 51% of the respondents feel the use of e-health records makes it more difficult to protect patients' privacy, down from 61% last year. The Wall Street Journal (free content)
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- Illinois rural hospitals to link to Chicago
Illinois rural hospitals plan to link staff with the resources and expertise of Chicago-area hospitals using a high-speed fiber-optic network. The network should be implemented within one year and was announced after the FCC awarded the state a $21 million grant to pay for it. Chicago Tribune
(11/29)
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- Oklahoma physician group purchases EMR/PM software
Norman Physician Hospital Organization in Oklahoma purchased EMR and practice management software licenses from eClinicalWorks for physicians in its 31 affiliated practices. NPHO says it aims to create a community health record for its patients and views this integration as a major step toward achieving its goal. Healthcare IT News
(11/28)
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- Study: IT changes reduce errors, help medication reconciliation
A new study shows procedural changes at a Hattiesburg, Miss., hospital helped three teams to decrease transcription errors from 58% to 10% and lower unreconciled medications from 38% to 10%. An electronic system for entering ED medical information and a new standardized transfer reconciliation order form were key elements in the change process. Modern Healthcare (free registration)
(11/28)
- eHealth Initiative to develop drug safety applications
The eHealth Initiative has implemented a program to develop applications that will assess the benefits and risks of new drug treatments. The program will include Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly and Company, Partners HealthCare System and the Regenstrief Institute. The program is part of the creation of an active drug safety surveillance system, mandated in the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007. Health Data Management Magazine
(11/2007)
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- HHS advisory body recommends e-prescribing
The American Health Information Community plans to suggest that HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt be given congressional authority to mandate e-prescribing in compliance with the standards of the Medicare Modernization Act for e-prescribing. Meanwhile, Leavitt has urged large health care providers to enact e-prescribing as part of medical practice. Health Data Management
(11/29)
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- Q-and-A: AMGA chief hopeful for data warehouse future
The American Medical Group Association has been collecting and studying data from its nearly 300 members who serve more than 50 million patients in hopes of creating a database that would be useful to patients, doctors and pharmaceutical companies. AMGA CEO Dr. Donald W. Fisher says challenges have been developing comprehensive privacy practices, creating an efficient data loading process and establishing a data validation and reconciliation process among participating medical groups. Digital HealthCare & Productivity
(11/27)
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