IT helps deliver safe medical care and a pleasant trip to facilities overseas. For more than 20 years, IT innovations have improved patient care worldwide. Now, these innovations are helping medical travelers, too. How so? First, there are electronic media records. With an EMR system, it’s easy to gather patient clinical notes, diagnostic scans, medical […]
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Cloud, Mobile and Data
It’s no surprise that healthcare is changing. The industry has been pushing for the digitization of patient health records for about 20 years, and as this comes to fruition, there is now an even greater opportunity for physicians to operate more efficiently. The convergence of three: cloud, mobile and data that is revolutionizing healthcare. Cloud: […]
Advantages of a Cloud-Based EHR for Small Practices
Many small to medium size medical practices are finding web-based EHR systems to be the perfect solution for their clinical needs. In a cloud-based system, a practice’s data is stored on external servers and can be accessed via the web, requiring only a computer with an Internet connection. Practices can prevent interruption of cash flow […]
Evidence of the Effects of Healthcare IT on Healthcare Outcomes
A study by the analytics division of HIMSS UK has, for the first time, highlighted a correlation between the maturity of IT within NHS hospitals and improvements to patient outcomes. The research, which combines data from 91 NHS hospitals in England together with HIMSS Europe’s proprietary EMRAM capability data demonstrates that those hospitals that have […]