Electronic Medical Records (EMR) news and information

Nurses at Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, Calif., have asked administrators to put implementation of a new computerized physician order entry system on hold until glitches can be worked out and more training provided to nurses and doctors who use it.
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The New York eHealth Collaborative has announced the three winners of its Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, launched earlier this year in which designers submitted portal prototypes for the not-for-profit organization.
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An orthopedic clinic in Raleigh, N.C., was apparently the latest victim of a scam in which patient X-ray films are destroyed by scammers to harvest the silver they contain, according to a privacy-breach notification involving 17,300 patients.
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The University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center has notified 537 patients of a security breach involving their medical records after an unencrypted flash drive went missing.
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Over the past three years, about 21 million patients have had their medical records exposed in data security breaches that were big enough to require they be reported to the federal government. The Office for Civil Rights has been updating a list of the breaches, known to the healthcare industry as...
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Dr. Steven Adkins was in Target on a Saturday night when his cell phone rang. One of his patients had finally broken out in the rash that Adkins was expecting. The patient sent a photo of the rash to Adkins, he diagnosed her with shingles and called in a prescription for her.
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The time medical interns spend interacting with patients continues to drop, taking up only 12% of their working hours, according to a study at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical Center.
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A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Glens Falls Hospital after the accidental release of the names and medical records of 2,360 patients. The records were available online through an unsecured computer server between Nov. 2 and March 14.
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Healthcare organizations' highest priorities for cybersecurity should include use of cryptography, isolation of highly sensitive information and creation of a reporting system for breach events to meet what is being described as a rising threat by data and identity thieves, according to an early...
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The 2009 Recovery Act set aside $20 billion to help healthcare providers ditch the paper records and go electronic. The idea was to cut soaring healthcare costs in the U.S. But while physicians backed by large healthcare groups can afford the system, many rural physicians are struggling to make...
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