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Health Care: Debate Rages Over Cost Effectiveness of EHRs

By Dick Weisinger

A recent study from Harvard Medical School and CUNY School of Public Health is stoking tensions in the debate about whether EHRs are as cost effective as they are portrayed by proponents of the technology.  The conclusions of the new

Health Care: EHR Adoption Increases, but Barriers Still Exist

By Dick Weisinger

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is electronic information that records the state and history of a patient’s health.  The goal for EHRs is to enable the easy and secure exchange and sharing of digital health data between health care providers and

Health Care: Rampant Number of Data Breaches Raises Concern

By Dick Weisinger

Last Friday, when reviewing the news headlines for the day, these three stood out: O.C. patients’ medical records compromised — 21,300 patients at Jude Medical Center in Fullerton and Mission Hospital facilities in Laguna Beach and Mission Viejo were inadvertantly

Health Care: mHealth Technology Bring Both Benefits and Risks

By Dick Weisinger

Almost every industry is under some amount of transformation due to rapid changes in technology, and HealthCare is one industry in particular where radical changes are under way.   The annual global healthcare market is now estimated to be a

Health Care: EMR Adoption Climbing and Expected to be Strong over the next Five Years

By Dick Weisinger

The deadline for the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has many scrambling to adopt EMR systems before that deadline in order to qualify for the funding.  Incentive funding via HITECH to hospitals and physicians to adopt Electronic Medical Records