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James Cameron's sci-fi movie Avatar centers on a Marine who, through a nifty bit of futuristic technology, is able to slip into a virtual body and explore an extraterrestrial world.
Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession – only much, much worse.
In an unprecedented partnership between an insurance company and an online social network, Aetna has teamed with OneRecovery.com, a Web site that serves as an Internet community for people recovering from alcohol, drug abuse, and eating disorders, connecting them with each other and with healthcare professionals.
Computerized physician order entry systems are continuing to evolve in a direction intended to make the workflow process smoother for physicians. In other words, for CPOE, the emphasis is being taken off the “C” and placed on the “P”, system vendors say.
Since implementing an EHR system in 1997, Heart of Texas Community Health Center, one of the 2009 HIMSS Davies Award winners, has tripled the number of its patients, expanded from a single location to 10 sites, and shown improvement in important quality indicators.
It may seem unlikely today, but within the next 10 years there will be widespread use of electronic health records across the country, the nation's health IT chief predicts.
The country's community pharmacists – and physicians, too – are calling on the government to strengthen e-prescribing requirements, arguing the standards are too low.
As physicians embark on a “new frontier of non-visit based connectivity with patients,” they play an important role in demonstrating how technology can serve to improve care.
Urban Health Plan, a network of federally qualified community health centers based in the South Bronx and Queens, is being recognized with a 2009 HIMSS Davies Awards for the way it has leveraged its EHR to improve outcomes for its underserved patients.
Implementing a computerized physicians order entry system poses multiple challenges, with physician engagement at the top of the list.