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...show any visible sign of injury but the ski patrol followed strict procedures and brought her back to the bottom of the slope and insisted she should see a doctor," said a statement from the resort, which is about 80 miles northwest of Montreal...
...fact, doctors anywhere in the U.S. have had access to the same prescription-writing software from Allscripts for free off the Web since 2007. The cost is underwritten by many of the technology and health industry's biggest names - Cisco, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Aetna and Wellpoint. (The upside for Allscripts is potential future sales of its full medical record-keeping software to early adopters of the e-prescribing program.) But even freebies aren't enough to get doctors to change their paper-scribbling ways. Many still find old-fashioned pen and pad to be more efficient. A recent study found...
Tampa Bay is staging a revolution. Residents, mark your calendars - it begins on Monday, in your doctor's office...
...hiring and maintaining a new workforce dedicated to training and monitoring the digitized health system. Ultimately, Klasko anticipates that 110 or so of these "electronic health ambassadors" will be needed to cover the Tampa Bay area; 10 to 20 will be deployed on Monday. Their job? To visit every doctor's office, no matter how big or small, and teach its entire office staff how to keep electronic health records on the computer. "We've found that although electronic prescribing is now available, doctors are just not using it because they still have so many unanswered questions - how much does...
...before then, with the President's backing, the right technology and the monetary carrots to motivate doctors now, Tampa is convinced it will become the first fully wired health-care city. City officials, along with their U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, are holding out for a portion of the stimulus package, in the neighborhood of an additional $18 million, which will guarantee that their program will reach all 8,000 doctors in the Tampa area. "We will literally change the DNA of health care one doctor at a time," says Klasko. Such genetic therapy isn't always easy...