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electronic health records
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HHS investigative unit set to lose hundreds of staff
Despite the Obama administration’s focus on cutting health care costs and fraud in the Medicare and Medicaid systems, the office…
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Experts disagree on value of electronic health records #ahcj13
Electronic health records are a tool, the bottom floor on creating standards to move from mere billing and data collection…
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Baby’s death illustrates how health IT can introduce complexity, error to system
Chicago Tribune reporters Judith Graham and Cynthia Dizikes explore the pitfalls of health information technology through the story of an…
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Explain elements of Health Policy through the eyes, stories of doctors
In these posts about covering Health Policy, I usually don’t point to the big national dailies because a lot of…
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Audit: UK’s health IT program falls short of expectations
After a damning report from the U.K.’s national audit office indicating that the National Health Service’s massive health IT program…
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ER scribes handle EMRs, free up doctors
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Michele Munz has found that some emergency rooms are easing the transition to electronic medical records…
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New EHR error-reporting system to keep data confidential
EHRevent.org, a service that will allow health workers to report and track errors associated with electronic health records, has launched…
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Schulte, Schwartz look for help investigating HIT
Regular readers know that we always keep an eye out for updates from Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz, the duo…
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Report: Smart phones are changing health care
For the California HealthCare Foundation, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn created a 23-page report titled “How Smartphones Are Changing Health Care For Consumers…
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Patient data errors force VA to close EMR system
Nextgov’s Bob Brewin reports that errors in patient data have forced the Department of Veterans Affairs to close access to…