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GPHC to introduce electronic patient records

A percentage of the $524.6 million that has been proposed for the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in the 2019 national budget is set to be used for the introduction of electronic medical ... read more

Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust to drive £175m IT systems revamp

Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust is looking to procure an enterprise-wide single electronic ... 10,000 patient records a year, and called for a ban on handwritten notes in hospitals to prevent ... read more

Alexander, Murray introduce bipartisan bill to end surprise bills

Measures to improve privacy and cybersecurity for health information and electronic medical records. Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially ... read more

Most health IT-related safety events lead to staff training rather than technology fixes

Plenty of studies have pointed to the link between the usability of health IT systems—particularly electronic health records (EHRs)—and patient safety ... appropriate software interoperability and ... read more

FMC Lagos begins digital record keeping for patients

Dr Adejuwon Dada on Tuesday said that the hospital would soon introduce Electronic Medical Records (EMR) keeping of patients. Represented by his deputy, Dr Omoarebun Oniha, Dada said this during an ... read more

Pharma's Desperate Struggle To Teach Old Data New Tricks

According to Ross’s article, a huge challenge in doing this study was extracting the patient cases (from Northwestern ... between different parts of the [hospital’s] electronic records." Ross goes on ... read more

GPHC’s electronic records system pegged for year-end —hospital CEO

The Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), on Friday stated that the administration is hopeful of completing the institution’s move to electronic medical records ... read more

Implementing volunteer peer mentoring as a supplement to professional efforts in primary rehabilitation of persons with spinal cord injury

The approval did not include access to electronic medical records. Data were collected during a one-year ... In conjunction, their job was (a) to introduce the project to eligible patients, (b) to ... read more

Major privacy breach: students could access hospital medical records

Experts told the Volkskrant that the loophole again highlights how difficult it is to ensure secrecy when using electronic ... medical record system in the Netherlands. In 2011 the upper house of ... read more

Here's how a chance visit led to the largest philanthropic gift in MGH history

A salesman for the electronic medical record he was using wanted to introduce him to the company’s owner. The chance encounter, more than a decade ago, led Walker to meet billionaire Phillip “Terry” ... read more

Brazil to introduce electronic patient records

Of the total population of 208 million, only 30 million Brazilians currently have electronic healthcare records, as 64 percent of family clinics in Brazil do not have any means of digitally recording ... read more

Putting sepsis algorithms into electronic patient records

NHS organisations in the Thames Valley are starting to build algorithms for severe sepsis into their electronic patient record systems ... The network has led work to introduce standard algorithms to ... read more