... long-term cost-savings produced by a national health information network could reach $77.8 ... HIPAA Security Rule, which governs the security of electronic health information. The two found major flaws ...
... and monitoring of care for research and quality improvement.
"There is broad consensus that electronic health records are an essential foundation for the delivery of high quality care. As ...
Health care workers welcomed the government's budget investments in electronic health and medical records but said it missed an opportunity to increase the supply of health providers.
The federal government confirmed $500 million more in funding Wednesday to support electronic health records, a move announced last month in its budget.
... and of public health sciences at Wake Forest University and co-author of the commentary.
The use of electronic health records (EHRs) has been increasing in recent years but they still are employed ...
... targeted $19 billion in the federal stimulus package for improving adoption of health information technology such as electronic health records. Many policy makers hope that the money will help doctors ...
A push for widespread use of electronic health records (EHRs) has become a central part of the national health care debate, but a new study shows that the technology is ...
... signed into law by President Obama includes $US17 billion in incentives for health providers to switch to electronic health records (EHRs) and $US2 billion for the development of EHR standards and ...
... nurses, primary care doctors, and cardiologists with an electronic health record also kept the patients healthy ... care system through our electronic health record," said the study's lead author, Kari L ...
... 305 groups of primary care physicians in Massachusetts, researchers found that practices that used multifunctional electronic health records were more likely to deliver better care for diabetes and ...
A report on Canada Health Infoway, an agency designed to help create electronic health records for Canadians, is set to be released by the federal auditor general on Tuesday.
Plans are underway to move Nunavut towards an electronic health information system, upgrading the mostly paper-based system that the territory's chief medical officer of health says is not working ...
... high quality, patient-centered, coordinated health care. Patient Incentives: Patients should ... Technology: Providers should be required to implement and use electronic health records within five years ...
... London and the South.
More patients now have cholesterol measurements recorded on their routine electronic health records. This data, together with other routinely collected data such as age, sex, ...
... care, improving health and lowering costs. For example, the medical staff can be electronically prompted to offer an ... medical records can substantially reduce health-care costs. Paul Dexter, M.D., ...
