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Patients, docs agree on health IT basics
Roughly 80 percent of doctors and patients agree that it's important for providers and hospitals to share information electronically to improve care coordination, cut unnecessary costs and reduce
Patients, docs agree on health IT basics
Roughly 80 percent of doctors and patients agree that it's important for providers and hospitals to share information electronically to improve care coordination, cut unnecessary costs and reduce
Markle survey shows strong consumer, physician support for 'blue button' downloads
Remember the idea of adding a "blue button" to EMR screens to make it easy to output personal health data? The Markle Foundation, which has been leading the campaign, has released a study showing
Google Health isn't dead, but it may as well be until EMR adoption picks up
I have a love-hate relationship with Google. Google is my go-to site for Internet search. And like many others, I've been known to waste time on YouTube. I'm a regular user of Gmail, Google News,
'Blue button' makes EMRs downloadable in one click
Your humble FierceEMR editor has been a rather unrelenting critic of the hype surrounding the minuscule public adoption of personal health records. Finally, others are seeing that there needs to be a
West Wireless offering $10,000 for integrating sensor data into social media
The West Wireless Health Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, the Markle Foundation and the University of Wisconsin have announced a total of four new
Feeling meaningfully used
They say everybody's a critic. These days, everybody's a pundit, too. That's particularly true when it comes to "meaningful use" of EMRs. On Tuesday morning, CMS of course released its final rule on
SPOTLIGHT: Markle offers own definition of 'meaningful use'
Jumping into a game that is drawing an quickly-growing list of players, the Markle Foundation has offered its own guideline for defining "meaningful use" of EMRs--i.e. use that qualifies for Medicare
DoD launches personal health record with Microsoft, Google
Well, the personal health record (PHR) has officially become mainstream when the U.S. Department of Defense embraces it. The DoD, which apparently had its own PHR in place previously, is leveraging
