eHealthRecord.info Archives

eHealthRecord.info Archives March 2009

| Vol. 6 No. 5, March 4 2009 |

FACTS AND STATS

Three-fourths of US doctors practice in small offices, with 10 doctors or fewer. For most of them, an investment in digital health records looks like a cost for which they are not reimbursed. It is scarcely surprising, then, that only about 17 percent of the nation's physicians are using computerized patient records.

Source:How to Make Electronic Medical Records a Reality
Date: February 28, 2009


NEW FROM ELECTRONICHEALTHCARE

The Implementation of Operational Processes for the Alberta Electronic Health Record: Lessons for Electronic Medical Record Adoption in Primary Care
[Pre-print from ElectronicHealthcare, Volume 7, Number 4. This article has been made available for the next two weeks.]


AROUND THE WORLD

Health Information Technology and Physician Perceptions of Quality of Care and Satisfaction

Finland Builds on Local Foundations

Hong Kong: e-Health Record System Proposed


NEWS FROM CANADA

Ontario's eHealth Strategy 2009-2012 (PDF)

New Brunswick: E-health Won't Be Complete This Year

eCHN Celebrates 10 Years of Electronic Health Records for Children


TRENDS

How to Successfully Select and Implement Electronic Health Records in Small Ambulatory Practice Settings

An Interface-driven Analysis of User Interactions with an Electronic Health Records System


INDUSTRY SPEAK

Agfa HealthCare Facilitates Information Access and Clinical Use between Ontario Hospitals

Hospitals Turn to IBM to Help Build Millions of Electronic Medical Records

On the Leading Edge of e-Health Technology: Changing Lives with xwaveEMR


INFOWAY UPDATE

Find Out What's New and Happening at Canada Health Infoway


WORTH NOTING

The International eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT Forum for Education, Networking and Business

HIMSS09

e-Health 2009: Leadership in Action

CHIMA 2009 Annual Conference

Health Informatics Bootcamp

HealthAchieve2009


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