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...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 that doctors dismiss 90% of the alerts that automatically pop up on e-prescribing programs as not relevant. They say they find these alerts tedious: for a veteran cancer doctor prescribing anti...
...city is about to announce that on Monday its mayor, representatives in Congress and health-care professionals will launch a new effort to make health records completely paper-free. That means digitizing every prescription and patient history written not only in the 10-county area surrounding Tampa and St. Petersberg, Fla., but also, eventually, in the rest of the country. Over the next two years, Tampa's leaders plan to train every one of the 8,000 physicians in the area in electronic prescribing, with the goal of having at least 60% of all eligible prescriptions by Tampa Bay doctors...
...Doctors and health officials in Pittsburgh are also on board to digitize the city's medical practices. And a group of hospitals in Iowa hopes to use a 3,600-mile fiber-optic data network, purchased by the Iowa Health System, to become the first state to go totally paper-free in health care...
...Proponents of digital medical records say the issue goes beyond saving paper and money. Studies have shown that computerized prescriptions can save lives as well; the National Institute of Medicine recently reported that prescription errors cause at least 7,000 deaths each year, and electronic prescriptions can reduce those mistakes by catching misdosing and drug-drug interactions. E-prescribing can also cut costs; last year, a study from Brigham and Women's Hospital showed that prescribing software that can identify both generic drug options and medications covered by a patient's insurer, has the potential to save...
...allegedly offending professor, Lee S. Simon, had his article in the biomedical journal “Best Practices & Research: Clinical Rheumatology” retracted last year. The retraction came after a data-comparison search engine found that about half the text of the article was taken verbatim from a paper published in 2003. Though he had not spoken directly with Simon about the matter, Simon M. Helfgott, a rheumatologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that he believed Simon had intimated to others that the paper had been written by a third party before he himself signed...