Electronic Health Records News

NEWS: Obama records plan unlikely to help DHMC (The Dartmouth)
President Barack Obama’s initiative to computerize the nation’s health care records, if passed into law, will not directly affect Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, one of the few U.S. hospitals that already uses electronic records, according to Dartmouth Medical School professor Andrew Gettinger DMS ‘79, DHMC’s medical director for information systems and informatics. The funding may benefit …

Electronic Records May Protect Patients, Research Shows (KERO 23 Bakersfield)
A study comparing hospitals using electronic record-keeping to those using written records shows that newer technology may protect patients’ health.

Groups Push for Health IT Privacy Safeguards (PC World via Yahoo! News)
U.S. lawmakers need to make sure privacy safeguards are in place before pushing electronic health records on the public, senators and witnesses at a hearing said.

Computerized Health Records Lower Deaths and Cost, Study Finds (Bloomberg)
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — Putting patients health records on computer systems instead of handwritten paper charts reduces medical complications, deaths and costs, according to a study of 41 Texas hospitals.

Grambling State University Selects PrognoCIS for Managing Student Medical Records (Centre Daily Times)
Bizmatics, Inc., makers of PrognoCIS Electronic Medical Records, is pleased to announce Grambling State University to the extensive list of clients. Grambling State University Student Health Center has chosen PrognoCIS EMR for the tracking and organization of the college student body s medical records. Grambling State University obtained the services of www.emrexperts.com for their EMR …

Health Care: Lake hospital takes St. Helena name; $200,000 for electronic records (North Bay Business Journal)
Redbud Community Hospital of Lake County changed its name to St. Helena Hospital Clearlake last month after forming a joint operating partnership with St. Helena Hospital in Napa.

Health care centres to be linked electronically (The Peninsula)
Doha: ictQatar has initiated work on its e-health project, which seeks to link all health care facilities in the country through an electronic network.

Personal Health Records — A More Efficient Way To Manage Health Information (Medical News Today)
The days of scrambling to recall or find immunization dates or medication names and doses may be numbered. An electronic personal health record is likely to replace those handwritten notes and scattered papers. The January issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource discusses this new way to manage personal health information, most often on the Internet.

Vast Majority Of Americans Still Forego Personal Health Records Despite High Interest – Study (Medical News Today)
Consumer demand for accessing personal health records (PHR) online is now at more than 70 million Americans, according to Cybercitizen Health v8.0, the latest consumer study and strategic advisory service from pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research. Despite significant interest in this type of service, only 7 million U.S. adults actually use PHRs.

Sen. Tester outlines VA priorities for 2009 (Helena Independent Record)
Improving the health care of American Indian veterans and making it easier to track electronic records are among the improvements Sen. Jon Tester hopes to make this year in the Senate Veteran s Affairs Committee.