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56 Million U.S. Consumers Access Medical Information From EHRs

added 2011-11-22


56 million U.S. consumers have accessed their medical information on an electronic health record (EHR) system maintained by their physician, and an additional 41 million are interested in doing so. These findings come from pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research’s new Cybercitizen Health® U.S. 2011 study of consumer

Video: ICD-10 National Provider Call

added 2011-11-22


Description: In this National Provider Call on ICD-10 Implementation Strategies for Physicians, CMS subject matter experts discuss ways that physician offices can prepare for the change to ICD-10 for medical diagnosis and inpatient procedure coding. A question and answer session follows the presentations.

– ICD-10 requirements and resources overview

AMA Votes to “Vigorously” Stop ICD-10

added 2011-11-22

on AMA’s website. AMA’s presdient, Peter W. Camel, MD stated, “The implementation of ICD-10 will create significant burdens on the practice of medicine with no direct benefit to individual patients’ care. At a time when we are working to get the best value possible for our health care dollar, this massive and expensive undertaking will add administrative expense and

Opinion Article: Web 2.0 Technologies Are Revolutionizing the Healthcare Sector

added 2011-11-12

By Dr. med. Heike Unverhau, Head of eHealth, Just Software AG.
Are you an ePatient? If you are looking online for health related information, then you are part of the increasing percentage of population that is searching the internet for information about health topics – in addition to traditional information channels.

To date, 80% of internet users go online for health information

South Carolina hospital to deploy PatientKeeper applications

added 2011-11-11

Conway Medical Center has purchased PatientKeeper’s suite of clinical applications to automate physician workflow and to deploy healthcare information technology at its 210-bed hospital located in South Carolina, US….