EMR/EHR

Electronic medical records (EMR) are a digital version of a patient’s chart that store their personal information, medical history and links to prior exams, texts and reports. The goal of these systems is to enable immediate access to the patient's data electronically, rather than needing to request paper file folders that might be stored in fragment files at numerous locations where a patient is seen or treated. EMRs (also called electronic health records, or EHR) improve clinician and health system efficiency by making all this data immediately available. This helps reduce repeat tests, repeat prescriptions and repeat imaging exams because reports, imaging or other patient data is not not immediately available. 

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AdvancedMD broadens EHR portfolio with PracticeOne purchase

Medical management company AdvancedMD Software has acquired PracticeOne, a privately-held provider of EHR software, for an undisclosed sum.

ACR touts safety of using whole-body scanners in U.S. airports

The Transportation Security Administration is looking to deploy whole-body scanners, which produce anatomically correct body images and can detect objects and substances concealed by clothing, at security checkpoints in U.S. airports. The American College of Radiology (ACR) has confirmed the safety of the scanners the TSA seeks to deploy.

Implementing EMRs: How to Push Physician Productivity

With $19 billion of federal stimulus money in play to modernize healthcare systems, and a mandate for U.S. providers to use electronic medical records by 2013, many hospitals are starting to implement EMRs as a step toward electronic health records.

How Much Is Too Much? Tracking Radiation Dose through an EMR

When word came out that more than 200 patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles had been accidentally exposed to extraordinarily high doses of radiation during CT brain scans, it spotlighted an issue that has roiled radiology for several years nowhow much radiation exposure is too much, what is as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) and how can it be tracked?

Unity Health System awarded $800,000 in federal grants

Unity Health System has been awarded $800,000 in federal grants to expand its EMR system and to support computer physician order entry initiatives already in place.

CCHIT certifies 14 EHR products under ARRA criteria

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has certified EHR technology against proposed federal standards to support providers in qualifying for incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). A total of 14 products have now been certified under its two new programsCCHIT Certified 2011 Comprehensive and Preliminary ARRA 2011launched on Oct. 7, 2009.

CMS, ONC propose meaningful use definition, EMR incentive program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) are encouraging public comment on the two regulations issued Dec. 30 that lay a foundation for meaningful use of certified EHR technology. The regulations will help implement the EHR incentive programs enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Kentucky radiology group chooses Amicas

Central Kentucky Radiology has signed a new agreement with image and information management solutions company, Amicas.

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