Electronic Health Records News

Telus to invest $100 million over three years in new health technology division (Canadian Business)
The Canadian Press November 18, 2008 - 12:21 a.m. TORONTO - Telus Corp. (TSX:T), Canada’s second largest telecom operator, says it will invest $100 million over three years to develop a new health technology division to build and service networks to share medical records and other information.

UK health records should not be flogged off (The Register)
Health watchdog barks Harry Cayton was only appointed head of the health service data watchdog on 6 November, but he has wasted no time in putting the boot into how the NHS wants to treat patient data.

Proposed health fees would tax elderly, ill: Yukon Medical Association (CBC North)
The head of the Yukon Medical Association says the government should avoid charging fees and premiums for health care, and instead find other ways of paying for its health-care system.

Medicare program touts electronic health records (East Valley Tribune)
A new pilot program will allow Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona to choose a private vendor to compile and maintain their health record information electronically.

Medicare program touts electronic health records (East Valley Tribune)
A new pilot program will allow Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona to choose a private vendor to compile and maintain their health record information electronically.

Medsphere and Indian Health Service Reach Accord on Multi-Year Contract for Healthcare Network Services (Centre Daily Times)
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of Open Source healthcare IT solutions, today announced a five-year agreement with the federal government’s Indian Health Service (IHS) to provide support, maintenance and development for the agency’s Resource Patient Management System (RPMS) electronic health record (EHR) solution. The new contract extends and expands the existing relationship …

MacPractice Kiosk interface allows paperless offices (MacNN)
MacPractice has launched its MacPractice Kiosk Interface with signature pad (link is temporarily inactive) for the company’s MacPractice MD, MacPractice DDS, MacPracticeDC and MacPractice 20/20 medical software. The kiosk is a customizable paperless solution for medical personnel to take registrations, health histories, consent forms and other medical records electronically with electronic …

Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Moves to EHRs with McKesson’s Paragon(R) Community HIS (Centre Daily Times)
Beaver Dam Community Hospitals (BDCH), Inc. (Beaver Dam, Wis.) has chosen to implement award-winning healthcare information technology from McKesson to provide a fast track to electronic health records (EHRs). BDCH selected the Paragon(R) community healthcare information system (HIS) to provide integrated clinical and financial information systems and comprehensive EHRs for its new …

Public call for e-health system (Australian IT)
THE federal Government has a strong mandate to introduce individual e-health records for Australians, a new consumer poll has found.

Case Western Reserve University professors call for regulation of electronic health records (EurekAlert!)
( Case Western Reserve University ) Cost and security concerns about bringing health care record keeping into the 21st century through electronic health records have led to a call for an effective regulatory and oversight system from a pair of Case Western Reserve professors who are responsible for one of the first scholarly studies to assess the need for federal regulation of EHR systems.