Electronic Medical Records (EMR) news and information

The findings of a new study published this week in BMJ Quality & Safety show the first evidence that electronic health records can play a role in reducing hospital readmissions of high-risk heart failure patients.
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Dialysis patients at Boston Medical Center were exposed to hepatitis B in March because nurses lacked access to computerized medical records that would have told them one patient was infected, a state health department investigation concluded.
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As more of Alaska's healthcare providers transition to electronic medical records, a health information exchange network is being lauded as better for doctors and patients, but also has its share of controversy over privacy.
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From a healthcare informatics perspective, it's as if Juliet married Romeo and the parents approved. Two not-for-profit standards-development organizations, producers of once-competing clinical codes, SNOMED-CT and LOINC, have reached a 10-year collaborative agreement to work together to improve...
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New technology and collaborative efforts are helping Harrisburg Medical Center and the Prairie Heart Institute in treating heart patients in Southern Illinois.
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U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said Monday he is co-sponsoring a bill that would require the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments to find a better way to share health information so veterans can have better access to their military health records.
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Doctors at Milwaukee Health Services have not had access to the medical records of 40,000 patients since June 30, when an Atlanta company cut off the community health center's access to its electronic medical records after their contract ended.
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By the start of the 2014 season, NFL physicians could have a player's entire medical history at their fingertips the moment he comes to the sideline with an injury. The data would be stored on iPads, which every NFL medical staff will begin using this season as part of the league's ongoing efforts...
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When a Parkland, Fla. doctor began working with others on an idea to store medical information safely online in the "cloud," little did he know that it would save his life.
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Somehow, somewhere, sometime in May, a computer chip containing medical records for more than 2,000 of a Lincoln, Neb., doctor's patients went missing—likely having slipped from the thumb drive he wore on a lanyard around his neck.
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