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Medical publisher Elsevier and video game developer Legacy Interactive have just announced the release of Top Doc, an iPhone app that features medical content and ...
Read More »Waiting Room Wait Times Comes to Your Cell Phone
The era of crowded medical waiting rooms came to an end. As people have come to expect checking the status of their flight prior to ...
Read More »Electronic Health Records and Clinical Trials: An Incentive to Integrate
By Chris Thorman As we wait for the federal government to finalize important sections of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act ...
Read More »Implementing an EHR: Top 10 Lessons Learned
By Mark Newman At some point in every electronic health record (EHR) implementation, the question is asked, “How do other practices configure their EHR?” It’s ...
Read More »Removing Large Rectal Polyps Through Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery at Abington
By D. Mark Zebley, MD Natural orifice surgery has been gaining attention lately for its benefits as a minimally invasive approach for some conditions. Yet ...
Read More »Electronic Health Records Incentive Program: What's in it for the Docs?
By Chris DeMeo While most of the country’s attention recently was focused on the fate of the hotly disputed healthcare reform legislation, another, less controversial ...
Read More »AMA: Proposed criteria for meaningful use makes it too difficult for physicians to successfully participate
Today, the American Medical Association (AMA) and 95 state and specialty medical societies submitted formal comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ...
Read More »What’s The Best EHR Technology For Your Practice?
By Mark Newman What is the best EHR for your practice? As usual, the answer is, “it depends.” Choosing the right Electronic Health Record (EHR) ...
Read More »Investigational Study at Abington Using New Device for Patients with Moderate Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
By Guy A. Lee, MD Middle-aged and older patients commonly present with neurogenic claudication, the classic nerve-related radiating leg and buttock pain caused by lumbar ...
Read More »The Big EHR Question: What Does “Meaningful Use” Mean?
By Helen Oscislawski, Esq. It has been a year since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (also known as “the stimulus bill” or “ARRA”) ...
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