David Hunt | September 4, 2014
NAMCS Physician Reported Impact of EHR on Patient Safety
At the end of each day, every physician asks themselves two questions:
James Daniel | August 27, 2014
Did you know there are health IT tools that can help you and your providers track your vaccinations?
They are known as Immunization information systems. These systems are confidential, population-based, computerized systems that record all vaccination doses administered by participating providers to people within a given area.
Kerry Souza | August 15, 2014
Community health centers are the largest providers of health care to underserved individuals in the United States and in many communities are at the forefront of health IT innovation. Health centers have long worked to improve the quality and efficiency of the care they provide, and have adopted health IT as a tool to facilitate that improvement.
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Kathy Kenyon | July 10, 2014
Everyone agrees that health IT safety is important. Promoting Patient Safety Through Effective Health Information Technology Risk Management is a research report that looks into the challenges faced by hospitals and ambulatory practices that implement health IT risk management interventions. The research was conducted by RAND Corporation and the ECRI Institute under contract to ONC.
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Larry Jessup | April 25, 2014
American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) face disproportionate health outcomes compared to other Americans.[1] The adoption and meaningful use of electronic health record (EHRs) technology may help to reduce this gap. Like other Americans, many of these individuals have multiple providers in multiple states and EHRs have the potential to provide reliable, consistent patient data that can follow patients wherever they get their care.
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