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Aug 13 2010

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

New study shows the use of IT in a group of California hospitals actually has resulted in higher costs, higher levels of nurse staffing and higher patient complications.

Jun 18 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll of more than 2,000 adults finds the vast majority aren’t using electronic tools to communicate with their doctors

Jun 16 2010

Information Week

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

GE Healthcare introduced for small, independent doctor practices a new Web-based, cloud version of its Centricity EMR software.

Jun 15 2010

BNET

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The hospital-centric care that EHR’s are creating may not be good for Americans’ health — or their pocketbooks

Jun 15 2010

Nextgov.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Across the country, doctors are aligning themselves with hospitals based on their preference (or dislike) of electronic records used at those institutions

Jun 09 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hospitals and physicians in three states announced this week a 12-month pilot project that they hope will rekindle the movement and measure the impact of patient access to medical records

Apr 23 2010

Healthcare IT News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Patient access to their summary and discharge data is vital because nowadays they are “kicked out” of the hospital to continue recuperation at home

Mar 31 2010

Federal Telemedicine News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Adoption of health care IT is on a steady incline in the small physician practice as revealed in a March 2010 survey done by NaviNet, a real-time health care communications network.

Feb 25 2010

OPM Reports on PHR Use By Federal Employees

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

The Office of Personnel Management releases a report showing progress in the number of FEHBP plans offering PHRs to members, but little use of those PHRs by patients and little…

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Feb 01 2010

iHealthBeat

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Revolution Health sent e-mails alerting users that it would discontinue its personal health record service at the end of February

Jan 26 2010

Canadian Family Physician

By Kevin Roche Research No Comments

Canadian Family Physician: New study looks at wheter computer use in patient-physician encounters influence patient satisfaction?

Jan 06 2010

New York Times

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Medicare officials on Wednesday detailed plans to distribute billions of dollars in stimulus to upgrade the nation’s paper medical records to electronic files

Dec 22 2009

Bloomberg

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IBM has signed financing agreements with four health-care businesses whose clients are converting data into digital form

Dec 17 2009

Milbank Quarterly

By Kevin Roche Research No Comments

Milbank Quarterly: Electronic Patient Record Research: A Systematic Literature Review Using the Meta-narrative Method

Dec 11 2009

AHRQ

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AHRQ funds electronic comparative effectiveness research

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