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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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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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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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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Friday, February 6th, 0600 at 17:28
More than 19 million Americans have been affected by major health information breaches since the HIPAA breach notification rule went into effect late in 2009. The public lacks trust that their medical information will remain private. Insurance companies are already tracking every thing we do and they cannot be trusted (in my opinion they are inherently evil).
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