Most people are well aware of the difference between an Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR), but now there is a new extension for EHR in the market and it is being called a CHR. Community Health Records (CHR) is a bit like an EHR and personal health records software. It has a [...]
Most people are well aware of the difference between an EHR and EMR, but now there is a new extension for EHR in the market and it is being called a CHR. Community Health Record (CHR) is a bit like an EHR and a personal health record. It has a few components of an EMR as [...]
More than half of healthcare executives are already witnessing success with encouraging outcomes and improving patient satisfaction. Also the uncertain future of the ACA is seen to be making telemedicine even more important. According to a survey, hospital executives are gradually prioritizing telemedicine for the purpose of delivering medical services as the Healthcare industry shifts to [...]
BOSTON — Chief information security officer of Health and Human Services Christopher Wlaschin said to strengthen their security posture there are three steps that hospitals should be taking today: join forces, treat your patching report like your profit-and-loss report and, at the very least, consider multifactor authentication. If you have the capability, then jump into the [...]
Symptom checker functionality has been added into the Epic’s MyChart portal by Mayo Clinic and EHR vendor Epic Systems. Patients can use the symptom checker feature to measure common conditions such as migraine, swelling, anxiety, dizziness, cold or flu. Based on algorithms, Mayo’s symptom checker is based on the data entered by users. It covers more [...]
