Mass. Launches Computerized Medical Files
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Doctors in Massachusetts would be able to access patients' records from any hospital or clinic in the state by computer under an initiative announced Monday.
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Blue Cross &amp; Blue Shield of Massachusetts plans to spend about $50 million to electronically link doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers in three Massachusetts communities, allowing them to share and access patients' medical records.
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Massachusetts consumers soon will have access to information long kept confidential by the healthcare industry: The prices individual hospitals are paid by insurers for performing specific procedures - data state officials hope will encourage comparison shopping and reduce medical costs.
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Promising to save doctors and nurses from as much as 60 minutes of paperwork per day, Motion Computing Inc. announced a tablet PC for hospital workers.
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Computer thefts at Kaiser Permanente and at an Indiana health center may have exposed sensitive data on more than 45,000 people.
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Is your hard drive the land of the lost files? An experimental software program labels files with images that can be easily remembered.
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Five major US corporations have joined forces to create a "medical Internet" on which some 2.5 million workers can bring together their personal health records in one secure location, providing access to everything from prescriptions and cholesterol readings to medical histories.
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St. Francis Heart Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., was built to be digital from the ground up. By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee. While many existing hospitals across the country are attempting to transform from paper-burdened
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The Bush administration renewed a pledge to finance projects intended to accelerate the adoption of computerized health records.
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By Rob Varnon, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Feb. 2--The race to allow the music, photos and movies sitting in your  computer's hard drive to be played over your stereo or your television through  a single system has arrived in Connecticut.
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Nearly 70 percent of Massachusetts hospitals have failed to install special computer systems for ordering drugs for patients, mostly because they carry big price tags. But a new report from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative says the state's hospitals would end up saving money if they install these sophisticated systems to reduce medical errors.
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The state of Massachusetts is reversing course with a proposal to allow state agencies to use software based on Microsofts Open XML format.
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By Advocate staff report  GONZALES - The Ascension Parish School System's Allied Health program is getting a technology boost thanks to a donation from St. Elizabeth Hospital.
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By MARTHA McKAY, STAFF WRITER  Ever worry about being so sick that you need a doctor's care while stuck in a strange city, far from your family physician and your medical records?  Now imagine handing the new doctor a tiny data storage device which she then plugs into a PC.
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Sensors will be used to relay data to medical files.
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Industry group will offer a free program to help users find and eliminate illegal files.
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Doctors try to balance a patient's trust with new technology.