Posts Tagged ‘electronic medical records’

Electronic Medical Records: Good, Bad and Ugly

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Today, while browsing the web, i came across a blog entry titled ” Electronic Medical Records: Hazardous to Your Health? “. It had interesting viewpoint regarding Electronic Medical Records and one of commentors on the post also had interesting point of view. I would say the title of the post was quite shockingly attractive.

Electronic Medical Records have been hot point of discussion lately ever since Obama administration is proposing around $30 billion to digitize individual’s medical records(everything and not limited to charts, scans), history …. accessible from anywhere. As everything and every technology, Electronic Medical Records have their good, bad and ugly. It depends on whose perspective it is viewed on.

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What is Health Informatics…, what is the fuss about?

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Health Informatics term has become a common term lately within all people not just people concerned with healthcare industry or information technology. So what is Health Informatics? Is this something new?or it has been there and just lately it has got more attention? It depends on who you ask?  If you google the term “Health Informatics”, then one links to wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_informatics)  provides an interesting insight into Health Informatics. I was surprised to find that Health Informatics began as early as 1950s in US.

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