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Electronic Health Records: Saving Or Undermining Medicare?
Back in 2005, then Health & Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt was enthusiastically pushing hospitals and individual physicians to embrace electronic health records. Not only would healthcare providers and their patients benefit, but the cost saving EHRs would create (estimated to be $600 billion a year) would be “a key part to saving Medicare.” Read More »
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Electronic Medical Records Hold Clues To Suicide Risk
Natural language processing — part of the technology that makes Google work — could help VA detect suicide risk among Veterans. Read More »
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Electronic Medical Records Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Limited Countries
A new study, conducted by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Moi University, is one of the first to explore and demonstrate the impact of electronic record systems (i.e. OpenMRS) on quality of medical care in a developing country. Read More »
Electronic Record Keeping A Change That Has Some Doctors Cringing
For more than 40 years, paper records have worked just fine for Dr. Bob Proffitt and his patients... Read More »
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Electronic Records Conversion Loss of 55.1 Million For Wake Forest Baptist
The rollout of the Epic electronic health records system contributed to a $55.1 million operational loss in fiscal 2012-13 for Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, according to a financial report released Thursday. Read More »
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Electronic Records Mitigate Against Malpractice
Electronic health records appear to significantly reduce the risk of malpractice claims, according to a study published this month in JAMA’S Archives of Internal Medicine. Read More »
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Electronic Records System Failure at Hospitals Prompts Nurses’ Concerns for Patient Safety
Registered nurses at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, Ca have asked the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to investigate the failure of an electronic health records system at their hospital last weekend which they say led to the closure of the hospital emergency room and multiple other problems that put patients at risk. In a message to the Los Angeles DPH office, Antelope Valley RN Maria Altamirano, on behalf of other RNs who are members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United warned that on February 27 “our entire electronic and data system failed.”
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Electronic-Records Goals Aren’t Met by 80% of U.S. Hospitals
More than 80 percent of hospitals have yet to achieve the requirements for the first stage of a $14.6 billion U.S. program to encourage doctors to adopt electronic medical records, the industry’s largest trade group said. Read More »
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Eli Lilly Offers Designers $75k To Redesign Clinical Trial Info For Patients
Eli Lilly opens Clinical Trial Visualization Redesign Challenge for designers & developers to make clinical trial information more patient-friendly. Read More »
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Eli Lilly Officially Sues Canada For 'Lost Profits' Because Canada Rejected Eli Lilly's Patents
A few years ago, we noted that Eli Lilly was facing some hard times, in large part because it had focused its entire business model around getting patents, and many of those patents were expiring, and very few new ones were in the pipeline. Even so, it was still rather surprising earlier this year to see Eli Lilly claim that Canada owed it $100 million for undermining the company's "expected future profits" by rejecting an Eli Lilly patent. Read More »
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eLife Produces Open Science Podcast Series
eLife, an open access (OA) journal covering research in the life and biomedical sciences, will produce a podcast series with The Naked Scientists, broadcasters who present easy-to-understand science to the general public. Read More »
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Elizabeth McGrath To Retire From DOD
Veteran Defense Department official Elizabeth McGrath will be stepping down from her position as deputy chief management officer, according to Pentagon sources. Read More »
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Elizabeth Warren Grills Banking Regulators At First Hearing
[Americans] eager to see consumer champion Elizabeth Warren take Wall Street's biggest banks to task got their wish on Thursday when the newly elected Democratic senator made her debut at a Senate Banking Committee hearing. Read More »
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Elizabeth Warren Questions FDA Rules for Limiting Antibiotics on Farms
New voluntary rules to limit the use of antibiotics in agriculture aren’t enough to satisfy Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). [...] Read More »
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Elsevier And Kitware Bring 3D Visualization Tools And Techniques To ScienceDirect
[Elsevier] and [Kitware] today announced that Elsevier journals offer the opportunity to upload 3D datasets when submitting a paper for publication. This way, once published, readers can interactively explore 3D datasets next to the online article on ScienceDirect. Read More »
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