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Opinion
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Indianapolis Citywide Health Information Exchange Improves Health Care
October 31, 2008Indianapolis boasts the Regenstrief Medical Record System and the Indiana Network for Patient Care, the nation’s only citywide health information exchange. The system contains data on about 9.6 million patients. The system provides emergency department physicians rapid access to a patient’s information at any ...
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Medical records sold as scrap paper to Utah teacher
October 23, 2008There are lots of stories about electronic medical records being compromised, and either stolen, or mistakenly made available on the internet. Paper records, however are not immune from unauthorized disclosure. The paper records of 28 patients from Central Florida Regional Hospital ended up in ...
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Culture, Costs, and Confusion barriers to EMR adoption
October 15, 2008EMRs are widely seen as a positive change in the healthcare industry. Despite this fact, physicians and hospitals are very reluctant to move into the information age. An article on the Harvard School of Public Health website acknowledges the vast benefits EMRs can provide ...
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Human Error to Blame for Grady Data Breach
October 1, 2008Simple human error made the private medical records of 45 patients at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia available on the internet. The hospital outsourced note transcription to a firm in Marietta, Georgia, who then outsourced it to a contractor in Nevada, who in turn ...
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