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It's 2017, but medical records are still mostly stuck in the dark ages. Most hospitals use electronic health records, but if you want your primary care…
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A Dallas hospital says a man who has Ebola initially told an emergency room nurse that he had no contact with anyone who was ill when he was in…
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Patients in the South want their doctors to trade in pen and paper for electronic charting. That’s the takeaway message from a survey of more than 4,000…
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Can a new telephone system save lives?If you’re a hospital, the answer is yes. For years, John Peter Smith Health Network struggled with its outdated…
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There may be a future for an ancient profession.Scribes, who in times past worked on everything from translating religious texts to historical book…
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It’s a big job: trying to connect more than 11,000 physicians, 140 hospitals and millions of patients to a central database. That’s the ambitious goal of…
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Imagine not having to fill out that new patient form every single time you see a different physician. Or doctors getting automatic notices when a patient…
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For years the government has been trying to convince doctors to trade in their pads and pens for computers and tablets – and not just because their…