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Contributing Writer · October 5, 2009
Secondary Health Data a Gold Mine
With health care organizations collecting hundreds of billions of gigabytes of data per year and the Feds poised to assure widespread dissemination of EHRs at long last, PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a survey of industry executives in which 75% predict their organizations’ data will be their...
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Contributing Writer · August 20, 2009
Is my data safe with Practice Fusion?
We recently reviewed the question of putting medical data in the Internet “cloud” from the standpoint of safety (guarding against loss of data), and of security (guarding against theft of data). The discussion was a general overview of the issues involved in paper vs. local...
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Contributing Writer · July 14, 2009
Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE): What is it and what does it mean?
“Computerized Physician Order Entry” (CPOE) has become a bit of a buzz-word in Heath IT circles, stemming from a focus on this in the emerging national Health IT policy. One of the areas of “meaningful use” described in the health IT Meaningful Use Matrix encourages...
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