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Physician EMR use tops 50 percent for first time

For the first time, more than half of office-based U.S. physicians are using some form of EMR in their practices, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual National

University of Texas, Mayo Clinic apply 'cognitive informatics' to build a smarter EMR system

Here's a new term for many of you: "cognitive informatics." It's an approach to information processing that builds technology around how users--clinicians, in the case of EMRs--think and make

Mass General search engine helps docs extract salient data from cluttered EMRs

We've often reported how EMRs represent vast, untapped sources of clinical and business intelligence. A system developed at Massachusetts General Hospital to extract EMR data for radiologists may be

HHS panel: EHRs should offer 'just-in-time education' in genetics

An HHS advisory panel says that EHRs can help educate healthcare professionals on the rapidly evolving field of genetics. "This approach involves the EHR 'understanding' where the provider is in the

Consultant identifies shortcomings of widely available EMRs

We don't have to tell our audience that current EMRs are far from perfect. Besides, there are plenty of others far more qualified than we are to make that assessment. Count among them Jerry Buchanan,