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A new medical website — TheNNT.com — explains to patients and physicians how well a particular treatment or medicine is likely to work based on ...
Read More »New Feature on Healthcare.Gov Allows Comparison of Insurance Plans
By Jessica Marcy Kaiser Health News Healthcare.gov, the website created by the new health law to be a one-stop consumer resource, today unveiled detailed cost and benefits ...
Read More »Smartphones, EMRs Are "Way of Life" for Incoming Docs and Med Students
Technology is a way of life for today’s medical students with the majority choosing clinical references on their iPhone device over teachers and peers to answer ...
Read More »Regional Extension Centers: Top 5 Reasons RECs are "RECkless"
By Houston Neal One of the major components of the the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was the allocation of $19 billion ...
Read More »Getting Clear on EHR Incentives and Value
By Mark Wallin For many years we have been hearing an increasing amount of information regarding Electronic Health Records (EHR) and related technologies with acronyms ...
Read More »How To Find Help Implementing An EHR
By Ken Frantz and Mark Newman Physicians and other healthcare providers are more concerned than ever about how they will implement electronic health record (EHR) ...
Read More »The Secret to Success of Telemedicine: “It’s All About Access”
By Alan Lyndon Physicians News Telemedicine as a technology is advancing so rapidly that it seems like something you might have seen on Star Trek. ...
Read More »Docs Overwhelmingly Using iPhones; Blackberry second
It’s official. Physicians love the iPhone. In fact, most smartphone-using-docs use the iPhone as their main mobile communication device. So says a study published by ...
Read More »New online community to discuss EHR issues
CSC today announced the CSC Meaningful Use Community, the first open and interactive online community for healthcare providers seeking to achieve meaningful use of electronic health ...
Read More »"Meaningful Use" Rule Finalized; What docs must do with EHRs to receive incentive payment
The government released new rules on Tuesday that further define “meaningful use” of electronic medical records for physicians and hospitals. Earlier this year, the Health ...
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