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Pfizer and Epocrates announced a collaboration to give healthcare providers mobile access to the Pfizer Medical Information Group to obtain scientific answers to their product questions or to report an adverse event.
EMRs and CPOE are all well and good. But what about one of the lesser discussed areas of healthcare IT? What about on-demand movies and touch-screen computers and whizz-bang video games? When patients are laid up in hospital beds, don't they deserve to have a little fun while these new advancements in information technology are helping to keep them healthy?
"Any time a business decision is client-driven, it's much more likely to be successful," says Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman.
Six healthcare organizations have been named as finalist for the 2010 HIMSS Davies Ambulatory Care and HIMSS Davies Public Health Awards of Excellence, recognizing their use of electronic health records.
Although nearly half of all Americans are ready to toss the paper and believe electronic health records will enable more efficient healthcare, they are largely in the dark about what it actually means for them as a patient, says a new survey.
A recent study finds that remote online visits with dermatologists achieved equivalent clinical outcomes for acne patients.
Less than one in 10 American adults use electronic medical records or e-mail their doctor, according to a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll.
The benefits of the National Demonstration Project on the patient-centered medical home, an initiative by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and its subsidiary TransforMED, are still being realized two years after the project ended.
Recent surveys show patients want to be able to e-mail their doctors, but this type of communication is largely "still in the waiting room," even when the technology to make it happen exists.
“You can’t find a provider that doesn’t want more patients paying in cash,” says the president of a new Web site that aims not only to link cash-paying patients to providers, but also to offer patients greater transparency for making a decision about where to seek medical care.