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Louisiana health site
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MARCH 25, 2010
E-prescribing now used by 25 percent of office-based prescribers
Twenty-five percent of all office-based prescribers now use electronic prescribing, according to a new report by e-prescribing network Surescripts. More...
Initiative aims to ease sharing of health history
A new initiative is designed to enable your patients to more easily share their family health histories with you, so that you can make well-informed treatment decisions. More...
Project to test smartphone, sensor ability to assist with treatment
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded more than $2.4 million to five grantee teams to test whether and how information--such as the stress levels of caregivers of premature infants and medication-taking routines of senior citizens at risk of cognitive decline--can be collected, interpreted, and acted on by clinicians and patients in real-world clinical settings. More...
Internet helpful in management of chronic illness, study finds
The use of at-home medical devices to connect doctors and patients via the Internet can help patients and their physicians work together more efficiently to manage some chronic conditions, according to results of a pilot project that paired the Cleveland Clinic’s electronic health records system with Microsoft’s online HealthVault service. More...
Louisiana launches health website
The state of Louisiana has launched a new website, www.healthfinderla.gov, in an effort to give residents easy access to detailed, accurate information on how to live more healthful lives. More...

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Modern Medicine Blog
AMA Supports Obamacare--Did It Sell Out Our Nation’s Physicians?
iPediatrician v1.0
“HOST YOUR EMR LOCALLY!” the Web Yelled Today
Join the conversation at memag.com/blogs
Health Policy
What the HITECH Act means for you
HHS proposes two-part approach to EHR certification process
FCC proposes steps to meaningful use of IT
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality seeks data defining quality children's healthcare
Electronic Health Records
EHR adoption up 3 percent since 2009, study finds
Surveys differ on physician EHR perceptions
‘Meaningful use’ to spur healthcare IT spending, HIMSS survey says
Taking a byte out of electronic medical records
Patient care
HIMSS chair: IT will transform healthcare
National health system to offer webcam visits
Dermatologists, oncologists most likely to communicate online with patients
Viewpoint: Now there’s an “app” for everything

 
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