United Kingdom news from FierceEMR
NewsCerner implementation at UK hospital has 'gone remarkably well'
Here's something you don't see every day: an EMR success story in England's massive National Programme for IT. Implementation of a Cerner Millennium system at the Kingston Hospital National Health Read more...
Study: EMR speeds treatment of STDs
Sex sells. Apparently, that's even true when it comes to EMRs. How else to explain U.S. News & World Report picking up a HealthDay News report on the effect an EMR has on treatment? That's Read more...
UK Study: EMR mining for heart risk as effective as universal screening
Foes of big government rejoice--though this news does come from England's National Health Service. Mining of primary care EMRs to find patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease is just as Read more...
UK halts Summary Care Record program
Last week, we reported about the anemically low usage rate of the Summary Care Record in the UK. Now, we learn that the national Department of Health would suspend uploading of any more patient Read more...
PHR usage is even lower in England than in the U.S.
The minuscule uptake of personal health records isn't just an American phenomenon. In fact, PHR usage is even lower in England. Of the 1.2 million people with PHRs--called the Summary Care Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Semantic interoperability
Attention EMR developers and integrators: Interoperability comes in three flavors. There's technical interoperability, computable semantic interoperability and process interoperability. The semantic Read more...
Report: European experience shows that U.S. is on the right path
HITECH, the health IT portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, of course is stirring up widespread interest in EMRs, particularly around whether a system will help healthcare Read more...
Ease of patient access, privacy called central to 'user-friendly' EMRs
Dave deBronkart, the New Hampshire cancer survivor widely known as "e-Patient Dave," blew the whistle on the inaccuracy of claims data in Google Health PHRs at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Read more...
UK, Australia EMR projects take it on the chin
The EMR-related news from overseas is not so good, as a system in Australia failed twice in four days, while a leading medical informaticist in the UK offered a sobering assessment of the National Read more...
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