Partners Health Care, a large health care system in the Boston area, is asking all of the primary-care physicians in its contracting network to implement or sign a contract for an electronic health record by Jan. 1, 2008. Those doctors who don’t get an EHR will be expelled from the network, which negotiates with local managed-care plans. The same requirement will be applied to the bulk of Partners’ specialists on Jan. 1, 2009. continues…
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The blog EMR Medical Software Information and Resources has posted a comprehensive rundown of where the presidential candidates stand on electronic medical records systems. The post also contains links to further information from the candidates. continues…
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Physicians are rapidly adopting smartphones as tools in their clinical work, as noted recently in Medical Economics (”Doctors are getting more tech savvy,” Aug. 3, 2007). Some new product offerings are now making it easier for doctors to access clinical information remotely on smartphones as well as personal digital assistants (PDAs). continues…
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Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of Search Products & User Experience, told Internet industry leaders at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that the company was still interested in search-based health care information services.
[Google] is also looking to figure out how to create transportable personal health records that give users “a lot of control” over who can see such sensitive documents.
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Not everything is as rosy in the UK’s National Health Service as Sicko makes it. Patients in the UK are restricted to seeing doctors close to their homes. The resulting inconvenience costs a total of 3.5 million working days a year in productivity. continues…
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“What drugs are you taking?” — Is there something patients don’t understand about the question?
Patients underreported their use of common but potentially dangerous over-the-counter pain medications known as NSAIDs, according to research presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology. continues…
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Unsuprisingly, patient health literacy is “worse than expected” (which I guess means that it is surprising; but somehow it didn’t surprise me).
New research from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has found that nearly 50 percent of patients taking antihypertensive drugs in three community health centers were unable to accurately name a single one of their medications listed in their medical chart. That number climbed to 65 percent for patients with low health literacy. continues…
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New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press has published an editorial by Dr. Richard J. Scott, president of the Medical Society of New Jersey, slamming Web sites that allow patients to anonymously rate their doctors.
There should be transparency and accountability here, just as we expect from the press. Free speech does not give someone the right to shout fire on a crowded Internet. How do physicians get their reputations back once the damage is done?
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Delaware Online reports on how six hours of theater workshops and lectures led by university theater professors can result in better communication between doctors’ and their patients. continues…
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In an effort to control health care costs, large companies are opening their own clinics for their employees and hiring doctors to staff them. Here is an article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel which outlines the model of practices such as these in the area.
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