Word: ehr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...consensus, of course, is that we must go paperless: link hospitals, doctors' offices and clinics via an interactive digital grid that allows patient histories, test results and other data to be called up at a keystroke and transmitted anywhere. Hospitals have been slowly converting to electronic health records (EHR) for several years, but with health-care reform, at last, high on Washington's to-do list, President Barack Obama has called for $19 billion in stimulus money to speed up the process. Before policymakers can determine how best to spend that money, however, they need to know how the digital...
...many of those 3,000 respondents had much they could boast about. Only 1.5% reported having a comprehensive EHR system in place in all clinical units. Another 8% to 11% had a basic system - defined as having eight to 10 of the 32 possible EHR functionalities in at least one unit of the hospital. Even one of the most straightforward functions - computerized drug-prescribing - had been implemented in just 17%. Physicians' notes - which can be confusing at best and flat-out illegible at worst - had gone digital in just 12%. The only bright spot in the findings was computerized results...
...That suggests that we do have a good place to start," says lead author Dr. Ashish Jha of the Harvard School of Public Health. Capitalizing on that start, however, requires identifying the main factors that are stopping hospitals from adopting EHR, and Jha and his colleagues tried to do that as well...
...serious about improving health care and reining in costs, the rest of the industry is going to have to get on board too. There are a number of Internet powers trying to stake out the EHR space, among them Microsoft and Revolution Health Group, led by AOL co-founder Steve Case. In Cleveland, Google has a partner that is already ahead of the curve...
Their work has won the Cleveland Clinic team a feather that any techie would covet in his cap--the attention of Internet giant Google. Cleveland Clinic was one of the search engine's early partners in Google Health, an online EHR service that was launched on May 19. For the hospital, it's an opportunity to expand patients' access to records. "We could only get so big on our own," says Joe Turk, a Web developer and the director of new products on the Cleveland Clinic technology team. "Google Health lets us go national...