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NewsState Department seeks ambulatory EHR for overseas health sites
The U.S. Department of State is seeking to install a worldwide ambulatory EHR for the 50,000 federal employees and their families assigned to embassies and consulates in 170 countries, Government Read more...
Migration of EMR audit logs could be expensive when switching vendors
One of the harsh realities of EMRs built on proprietary databases is that it's often tough and expensive to migrate from one system to another. EMRs are supposed to keep an audit log of when, by whom Read more...
Data breaches costly, but hospital execs say EHRs can prevent leaks
If you think data breaches don't cost hospitals, think again. The impact of a data breach is about $1 million per hospital per year, and the lifetime value of a lost patient is $108,000, according to Read more...
Hospitals reluctant to outsource EMR work to India
Here's a little conundrum arising in the race to implement electronic medical records: Vendors want to save money and offer lower prices by outsourcing IT work to India and similar locales. But Read more...
Half of providers said to have EMRs, but many docs fear intrusion
Finally, someone in the mainstream media is starting to get it. "There's an argument that we're eventually going to look back at the stimulus bill's investment in electronic medical records as the Read more...
Vendor Practice Fusion: Consumers want fast access to their medical records
Maybe consumers are more savvy about health information than many pundits give them credit for. Of all their concerns about medical records, the most prevalent is being able to access their own Read more...
Incoming Siemens IT chief Glaser: Era of clinician resistance to EMR 'behind us'
Declaring the era of clinician resistance to IT "behind us," John Glaser, who is leaving his job as CIO of Partners HealthCare System in Boston to become CEO of Siemens Healthcare's Health Services Read more...
ONC privacy-security 'tiger team' ponders whether HIEs should view records
With so much uncertainty about privacy and security of electronic exchange of patient records, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently formed a "tiger team" Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Harris/Xerox survey finds consumers support EMRs, fear data theft
Patients seem ready to accept EMRs even if their physicians and other health providers aren't, according to a new Harris Interactive survey conducted on behalf of Xerox. Nearly half of the 2,180 U.S. Read more...
Federal workgroup wants encryption even for direct HIE
The privacy and security workgroup of the federal Health IT Policy Committee is recommending that providers encrypt any personally identifiable patient information whenever they share data with Read more...
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