Electronic Medical Records (EMR) news and information

Medical identity theft is a growing problem, but many of the victims know the thief and do not want to report him or her, says a survey released Thursday.
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A new survey sponsored by Detroit-based Covisint shows 58% of 50 senior level executives give high marks for exchanging health information online.
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Switching from paper to electronic health records at health clinics led to "modest reductions" in the number of people with diabetes that went to the emergency room or were hospitalized, according to a new study.
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One warm night in mid-July, more than 4 million patient records breezed out the door of the Advocate Medical Group administrative office in Park Ridge, Ill., in the arms of an unidentified thief who stole four computers from the largest medical group in Illinois. The 1,100-physician medical group...
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Kansas' health information exchange has been years and millions of dollars in the making but because of an ongoing dispute between its two networks, it still lacks the capability to handle the exchange of digital patient records across the entire state.
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Starting this week, doctors in New York must check a new electronic prescription drug database before writing prescriptions for painkillers and other controlled substances. The change is required by the state's new I-STOP law enacted a year ago to address the epidemic of prescription painkiller...
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The Health Flexible Spending Account records of 13,000 Virginia state employees were erroneously sent last month to the wrong human resources or payroll officials who should have received information only for their own locations. An insurance subcontractor electronically distributed the...
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Patients do care about what becomes of their health information after it's used for their treatment, and they care more about what it's used for than who's using it.
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As one of the largest not-for-profit outpatient healthcare providers in California, Sansum Clinic handles 650,000 patient visits per year. That's a lot of frequently changing data about prescriptions, exams, tests and billing, and until recently, a lot of it was on paper.
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Wisconsin now has in place the basic building blocks for a statewide network that could enable hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and other healthcare settings to exchange key information from patients' medical records securely and effortlessly.
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