IT interoperability woes keep doctors from really knowing some patients
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An improved ability to share medical records electronically via IT systems is still many years away, according to health care industry officials who testified at a U.S. House hearing.
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Blog: As an industry we are terrible at working on interoperability.  The open source world should be the one to fix this.
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Letting people easily share information on their desktops and in back-end systems could greatly boost productivity, says Avanade CTO Ashish Kumar. But we're not there yet.
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Those strangers waiting at the doctorâs office may share a pain that others canât understand.
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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NEW YORK  - Physicians frequently fail to   provide patients with all the information they should have when   they're prescribed new medication, investigators in California   report.
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Although it has been a long time coming, physicians are beginning to consider the Internet an integral part of their practice. For example, instantaneous
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Only two months ago, the Emergency Department at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital was piled high with patient charts: files clogged with physicians' notes and nurses' follow-throughs, with test orders and lab results and a plethora of other printouts and paperwork. As in most EDs, keeping track of everyt...
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Â· Medical experts initially failed to tell of affiliationsÂ· MPs told only after explicit request for information
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The U.S. defense and veterans affairs agencies have started sharing some medical data with each other. But they still can't fully exchange the electronic health records of patients, despite nine years of IT work.
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While developers are naturally curious over tweaks to the Longhorn road map, many IT administrators barely take notice. Enterprise IT customers typically lag at least
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The beta of Microsoft's new online service reveals some good collaboration features for individuals and small businesses, but there are problems that still need to be ironed out.
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Doctors need guidance on how to avoid problems using technology to reach patients, says a researcher.
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Interoperability is the great challenge facing the open-source movement.
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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A medical center CIO shares best practices when PDAs, BlackBerries, smart phones and the like must be hooked up to your network.
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Too many doctors write prescriptions while under the influence of drug companies. Aggressive prosecution of the worst cases could help mend doctor-patient trust.