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Medicine via Skype? Can Medicine be Seriously Practiced via the Computer?
With great IT tools, and easy to use EHR, the future of medical treatment may be semi-virtual. How do you, the doctor, feel about your doctors’ visits being conducted via sophisticated Skype? How...
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EMR Software Installation and Patient Safety
There are so many EMR / EHR products on the medical software market, and many of them are quite good, although still evolving. EMR is evolving because the laws are evolving and the technology is...
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Free and Small Budget Electronic Medical Records Software: Hedging Your Bets
Should you consider a free EMR / EHR ? Or a small budget EMR instead of one of the big names? Perhaps we should rephrase the question: why would you not consider a small budget EMR or a free EMR? Who...
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Thanksgiving and EMRs: any connection?
What do EMR / EHR have to do with Thanksgiving? Actually, quite a lot. EMRs can make getting sick and landing up in a hospital far from home, at Grandma’s house, a lot less terrible. With well...
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Can you Access your EMR Securely from your iPad?
Now that iPads are everywhere, and that so many medical practice software apps are being written for them, it would be wonderful for doctors to feel secure in using them to access their electronic...
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Can EMR /EHR Make Telemedicine a Reliable Option for Doctors and Patients?
Recently there have been a spate of articles on telemedicine in reputable journals, blogs and papers regarding insurance companies covering electronic medical visits. The glue among all of them is...
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EMR copy and paste: Is there really a problem?
If you are old enough to remember the days before word processors, you remember how difficult writing an essay for school was: erase, white out, re-write. Word processors have loosened the electronic...
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BYOD and EMR: is it Worth Trying to Make it Work?
Is it really safe to text /email/ proprietary HIPAA protected information to/about patients from you own mobile device — your iPhone, for instance? While in some instances — and you really must check...
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EMR: remember the overall benefit for patient and doctor!
If you are sweating the details of an EMR / EHR purchase or installation, it is comforting to think about the overall goals: ease of use for doctors and patients, we hope. A young friend who is being...
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New HIPAA Ruling to Impact EMR and Medical Providers
New HIPAA privacy rulings announced today by HHS expand HIPAA requirements beyond doctors and insurance companies to business associates of any entities that receive protected health information,...
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