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Oncology journal puts EMRs, CPOE under the bright lights
The latest issue of the Journal of Oncology Practice offers a treasure-trove of electronic medical record goodies, with articles ranging from the relevance of Meaningful Use to CPOE implementation
Enterprise m-health will be $1.7B market by 2014
In a recent post on the Chilmark Research blog , John Moore noted how mobile technology is a disruptive force in healthcare. "And with disruption, opportunity blooms," he wrote. If we only knew what
NYU automates pharmacy with robotics
Does robotics qualify as mobile healthcare? We think so. That's why we bring you the news, via TMCnet, that New York University's Langone Medical Center has retooled its pharmacy with advanced
FDA, ONC clash over EMR safety issues
The CMS regulations for "meaningful use" of EMRs are 864 pages long. The companion rule on EMR certification, from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, is another
Health IT Week raises awareness of EMRs, but does little else
It's National Health IT Week again, the fifth annual, and hundreds if not thousands of EMR advocates--and no doubt a few skeptics--have converged on Washington, D.C. I'm not among them. As I noted
Cerner implementation at UK hospital has 'gone remarkably well'
Here's something you don't see every day: an EMR success story in England's massive National Programme for IT. Implementation of a Cerner Millennium system at the Kingston Hospital National Health
Hospital CPOE collaborative to market order sets via Zynx
Three major health systems that have jointly developed more than 1,000 clinical order sets are joining with Zynx Health to market the order sets to other providers implementing computerized physician
HIT editor: Soften 'meaningful use' until there's more evidence EHRs are safe
Conventional wisdom holds that the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was one of the few parts of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that was widely
EHR implementations open 'cans of compliance worms'
In case hospitals didn't have enough to do while implementing EHRs in time to earn federal stimulus money, EHRs can open up "brand-new cans of compliance worms," reports AIS' Health Business Daily.
CSC consultants: CPOE implementation doesn't have to take years
When the employer-centric Leapfrog Group started way back in 2000, it pushed computerized physician order entry as a way to improve the quality of care. (The impetus likely was the landmark 1999
