Officials tout electronic health records

Officials tout electronic health records
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) — U.S. health officials Thursday praised healthcare providers and insurers for taking steps to adopt and promote the use of electronic health records. Electronic health record – United States – Medicine – Health – Informatics
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AIDS Care Finds Success Implementing Electronic Health Record

AIDS Care Finds Success Implementing Electronic Health Record
e-MDs, an industry leader in the development and implementation of electronic health records and practice management solutions, commends AIDS Care for their successful implementation of e-MDs Solution Series⢠integrated system.  AIDS Care, the leading provider of HIV/AIDS services in Rochester, New York, is the only organization in [...]

HP Assists Healthcare Providers With Electronic Health Record Migration And Management

HP Assists Healthcare Providers With Electronic Health Record Migration And Management
HP (NYSE:HPQ) introduced a new program to support and accelerate the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) among hospitals and physicians. With offerings that span records migration and management as well as financing and support, HP EHReady enables hospitals and their affiliated physicians to stay [...]

Electronic health records help Northeast Ohio docs improve care

Electronic health records help Northeast Ohio docs improve care
Healthcare providers who participate in Better Health Greater Cleveland continued to improve the quality of care they provide patients with common chronic conditions last year — thanks, in part, to electronic medical records. Later this year, doctors’ offices and hospitals will begin receiving more than $20 billion [...]

Electronic Records for Rural Health Care

Electronic Records for Rural Health Care
COLUMBIA – MU Medical system is opening an assistance center to help health care providers convert to electronic records.
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Electronic health record alone may have limited ability to improve quality, costs of care

Electronic health record alone may have limited ability to improve quality, costs of care
( Massachusetts General Hospital ) The implementation of electronic health record systems may not be enough to significantly improve health quality and reduce costs. In the April 2010 issue of Health Affairs, researchers from the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts [...]

Kaiser Permanente Honored for Electronic Health Record Implementation

Kaiser Permanente Honored for Electronic Health Record Implementation
OAKLAND, Calif., March 2 /PRNewswire/ — Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s leading health care provider and not-for-profit health plan, received 12 Stage 7 Awards from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
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Arizona To Receive Federal Matching Funds For Electronic Health Record Incentives Program

Arizona To Receive Federal Matching Funds For Electronic Health Record Incentives Program
In another key step to further states’ role in developing a robust U.S. health information technology (HIT) infrastructure, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today that Arizona’s Medicaid program will receive federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement [...]

Electronic advancements for health care

Electronic advancements for health care
Dana Moore, chief information officer for Centura Health, said that the process of incorporating electronic medical records has been a journey.
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