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The Oncology EHR: The Time May Be Now

Robert S. Miller, MD

…beyond the scope of this editorial to detail the process involved in evaluating and selecting an oncology EHR, the product chosen must be able to perform these oncology-specific functions.
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Better care at a better cost

By Ron Kind

…IOM will provide recommendations on changing the Medicare payment system to reward value and quality…
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Saving Lives, Saving Money: The Imperative for Computerized Physician Order Entry in Massachusetts Hospitals

A study by the New England Healthcare Institute

One in every ten patients admitted to these Massachusetts community hospitals suffered a preventable drug event…
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Deliver tangible ROI: three healthcare organizations see reduced costs, enhanced efficiency and increased compliance with CPOE’s

By Gerry McCarthy in Health Management Technology

Early IT adopters have the opportunity to reap the benefit of millions of dollars in government funding from ARRA, while late adopters will begin to pay penalties starting in 2015. The difference between payment and penalty will be "meaningful use." …
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Effects of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) on medication safety: a systematic review

By Rainu Kaushal, M.D., M.P.H., David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. Harvard Medical School
Archives of Internal Medicine. 2003

Medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs) are common, costly, and clinically important problems …
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Healthcare dips a toe into the digital age

By Geoff Nairn, March 22, 2010

Healthcare is beginning to shake off its Cinderella image after lagging behind other sectors both in levels of IT investment and in its perception of IT as a strategic tool…
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Investors keen on analytics, patient safety tech

By Patty Enrado, March 29, 2010

Another big area of growth is patient safety - eliminating medical errors, she said. The Institute of Medicine's 2000 report, "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System," estimated that medical errors cost the country $37.6 billion annually…
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Accenture Exec: EMR Targets Unlikely To Be Met

Today, only six percent of U.S. office-based physicians use a fully functioning electronic medical record system.

By Nicole Lewis, March 29, 2010

The government's goal to provide every citizen with an electronic medical record by 2014 is not likely to be met, according to Dr. Kip Webb, who leads Accenture's clinical transformation practice…
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How American Health Care Killed My Father

By David Goldhill

…a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is a system, he argues, that is not worth preserving in anything like its current form.
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