Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 13:28
This is a live demonstration of how the South Carolina Health Information Exchange (SCHIEx) can work for a patient when they are traveling. In this example to Austria.
The demo, presented by Port City Live, WLCN TV 18, Charleston, SC, features Charles Williams Jr. of Electronic Health Network and discusses how medical information was sent securely from the Charleston, South Carolina Electronic Health Network to Vienna, Austria.
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Sunday, March 11th, 2012 at 04:37
Consumers Union just published a report that Health Information Exchange Systems that are Emerging are Don’t Meet Patient Needs. As I’ve stated in previous articles, patient involvement and financial sustainability (not backed by grant money) are perhaps the two biggest factors required for a HIE to stay afloat. They say that Health care organizations need to do more to help patients realize the full benefits of electronic data from emerging health information exchange systems, according to a new study commissioned by Consumers Union that appears in the March 2012 Health Affairs. The study examines how well five major California health care organizations are meeting the needs of patients and communities in the use of their electronic data and offers important lessons for the rest of the country. Copies of the Health Affairs article are available to reporters upon request.
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Monday, February 20th, 2012 at 08:27
Financing Research and Framework Development for a Health Information Exchange.
This video webinar was produced by HITECH Answers, www.hitechanswers.net. It reviews some of the possible scenarios in establishing the framework for a Health Information Exchange (HIE). Health Information Exchanges (HIE) are a key part of Electronic Health Record adoption and achieving the goals of the HITECH Act. The exchange must be secure and between authorized stakeholders in the healthcare community.
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 04:18
How hard is it to digitize our health records? James Williams (Discovery News) answers that question with a trip to an Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, Dr. Morris Effron.
He is in the middle of converting 24 years of charts to his electronic medical record system.
The software he is using is from Greenway Medical Technologies, which I hear is a pretty good system.
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012 at 16:16
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 at 16:38
Export a Continuity of Care Record (CCR) from your Practice Fusion EHR.
A Completely Free Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
Practice Fusion's Electronic Medical Record system is 100% free because it is ad supported. You can get a version without ads for a 100 buckaroos per month. Licensing, hosting, training and support services are all included.
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 at 08:40
Google Health is shutting down. The reason they give is that they were not able to create the impact in the market that they wanted. Google will continue to support the Direct Project protocol so if you have a Google Health account you can transfer your records to another site. I'm not so sure this transferring of data ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2011 at 08:44
Electronic Health Record or EHR as they are more popularly known have emerged as the most needed and the most basic healthcare software. EHR have proved to be the backbone of the health insurance exchange and health information exchange. The medical information stored in the EHR is sourced by the exchange platforms to give more ...
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Saturday, June 25th, 2011 at 13:57
Google recently announced that it will cease support of its Google Health personal health-record platform by the end of this year. This means their huge foray into healthcare and “Health 2.0” lasted less than four years.
6/24/2011 11:01:00 AM
This somewhat surprises me as I figured Microsoft would have pulled the plug on HealthVault before Google ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 at 10:47
This is a high level newspaper type article mentioning how electronic health records are being adopted by physicians in South Carolina. It's good to see the growth of eHealth.
Saturday, May. 28, 2011
20 percent of S.C. physicians now sharing electronic health records
By JOEY HOLLEMAN - ...
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