Molly Merrill
All primary care doctors in Denmark use electronic medical records and 98 percent have the ability to electronically manage patient care. This has put the small country at the forefront of effective information technology use, according to a new report released by the Commonwealth Fund.
Professional registration at the 2010 Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition saw an increase of 9 percent, according to the organization's preliminary registration figures.
Officials at Drummond Group, Inc., announced on the company's blog that after a "thorough review" of the recent notice of proposed rule making, it will apply this year to become an Office of the National Coordinator-Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB).
Nearly 1,000 affiliated physicians of Huntington Memorial Hospital, a 636-bed, not-for-profit hospital in Southern California, are moving to electronic prescribing, a step which hospital officials say will help bring them closer to an electronic healthcare record.
A Washington-based advocacy group has collected consumer and employer perspectives on the top 10 arguments concerning meaningful use. And with only a week left before the public comment period on meaningful use comes to a close, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is urging the public to weigh in with their own thoughts.
Doctors who use file sharing software could be putting their patients' medical information at risk, says a recent study.
Five grantee teams have been selected as part of Project HealthDesign's national program that explores how personal health records can be used to capture and integrate patient-recorded observations of daily living (ODL) into clinical care.
Verizon Business launched a new platform Wednesday at HIMSS that will allow more than 350,000 physicians to digitally share patient notes by the end of the summer.
Detroit Medical Center's chief medical information officer says the system, which has 2,000 licensed beds, is working on "filling the gaps" in its electronic documentation as it strives to meet meaningful use and become paper free.
Dossia's news that two more founders are using its PHR, coincides with Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault's announcements about their latest offerings at the HIMSS10 conference in Atlanta.