Global Markets Direct, a source for leading research and analysis, is releasing the report The Future of the Healthcare IT Market to 2015 – Healthcare Reform in the US to Boost Growth, which provides key data, information, and analysis on the global Healthcare IT market. The report estimates that the global market for Healthcare [...]
|
||||||
|
Physicians who are adopting electronic health records (EHR) systems recently received the promise of help from government subsidies that will be paid out in increments over five years, beginning in 2011. The incentives are quite substantial, giving physicians who are eligible up to $44,000 from Medicare or $64,000 from Medicaid if they have enough [...] The national health care debate is focused on giving more American citizens affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions are made by individuals instead of health care providers, whether those decisions are about an exercise regime or the management of diabetes. The answer to improving the health [...] According to a new study by RAND Corporation researchers, routine use of electronic health records may improve the quality of care provided in primary practices more than other strategies intended to raise the quality of medical care. Researchers in Massachusetts studied 305 groups of primary care physicians and found that practices that utilized multifunctional [...] Patient charts, prescription pads, Jenga-esque stacks of folders, and metal clipboards are very last century. We are now in the era of stem-cell research, gene-splicing, and CAT scans. Handwritten notes and record-keeping feels retro and is eco-expensive. Annual health care in the United States costs approximately $2 trillion, or more than $6,600 per man, [...] For most medical facilities, the change from paper to electronic medical records can be perceived as difficult and frustrating. Staff members who are resistant to change may struggle to adapt their management skills to the new records system and may sometimes make the mistake of using paper as a crutch during the transition. However, [...] Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems have been recognized by the U.S. Government as a core component to national healthcare reform. Beginning in 2011, physicians and hospitals will begin receiving government incentives if they are “meaningful EHR users.” Though the definition of “meaningful users” is still under debate, the reason behind the definition is clear. It [...] In an effort to digitize the health care industry, the government recently revealed $1.2 billion in federal grants for health care providers to transition to electronic health records systems, according to The Washington Post. This is the first wave of funding under a health care reform plan that is aimed at cutting costs and [...] Many medical information record systems were initially designed as financial systems with patient information added later, many times as an afterthought. Because these systems were not originally created for patient information, they are inefficient and problematic, providing perfect examples of badly-integrated, non-patient oriented, easily misplaced information systems.
Traditional paper record systems are bulky [...] Electronic medical records may dramatically improve the diagnosis, management and care of patients, according to a Kaiser Permanente study from the September 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. This study reports that electronic medical records improve the quality of health care overall and may result in quicker diagnosis and response time [...] |
||||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Article Orange - All Rights Reserved |
||||||