July 2010
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Massachusetts Named Top State For E-Prescribing -... →
Some of SafeGuarde’s EMR key features are E-Prescribing, IPAD Compatible, SMS Texting to patients, and E-Charting.
June 2010
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Could Small Practices Be Left Behind in the Push...
SafeGuard EMR offers low cost solutions that fit you and your practice. We are the Number One Choice of Doctors choosing an EMR.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
by Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat Senior Editor
The federal government is banking that the billions of dollars allocated for health IT in the 2009 federal economic stimulus package will lead to widespread electronic health record adoption. But...
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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different...”
– Albert Einstein
May 2010
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Checking up on the Doctor. →
I totally agree that I am more apt to take the advice of my Doctor who actually is fit as well and gives tips for personal experience. If you hired a personal trainer do you want someone who is fit and in shape? Or would you be just as happy with someone who isn’t in great shape and believe that they can help you achieve your goals?
The Cost of Cardiovascular Disease
The cost of cardiovascular diseases and stroke in the United States in 2009 is estimated to be $475.3 billion, according to the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). This figure includes both direct and indirect costs. Direct costs include the cost of physicians and other professionals, hospital and nursing home services, the cost of...
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The Challenges of Moving from One EMR to Another
Implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in a medical practice is an easy task when you choose the right vendor that has experience in transitioning data, complex data migrations all with no downtime. SafeGuard EMR is your choice for an easy transition, easy implementation, and easy to use EMR. All paper records in a medical office (or hospital) needs to be accounted for when...
April 2010
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Interesting Trends
1) It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners.
2) Terrestrial TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users
3) The internet took four years to reach 50 million people…
4) In less than nine months, Facebook added 100 million users
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller
NPR: A National Network Of Bike Trails? It Could... →
We have an epidemic on our hands. 1 in 3 children are obese, people work longer hours, longer days and sit behind a computer texting, surfing the web, and reading online. According to the American Diabetes Association:
“Total: 23.6 million children and adults in the United States—7.8% of the population—have diabetes.
Diagnosed: 17.9 million people
Undiagnosed: 5.7 million people
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Electronic Medical Records Systems Can Help...
According to the April issue of the journal Health Affairs. While about 44% of American doctors have some element of electronic health record (EHR) working in their offices. The portion of hospitals with fully operational ones hovers around 2%.
According to The New England Journal of Medicine “Small clinics treat about half of the patients in the United States, yet only 17 percent report using...
Caring Bridge - Connecting People →
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Blogging the End of a Life →
Sony to stop manufacturing Floppy discs after 30... →
Upon sharing the news of Sony with several teenagers, they argued with me that they know what a “floppy” is until I showed them a picture via google images and they all said, “Whoa, what is that?”….. My point, it is about time…it is already dead.
deleteyourself:
What the hell is a floppy disk?!!?!?!?
U.S. lags the world's top adopters of electronic...
U.S. lags the world’s top adopters of electronic health records systems
By Bob Brewin
The United States is far behind countries that lead the world in using electronic health records, and the nation should borrow some of their policies to increase the adoption rate of e-health records here, according to a report a technology advocacy group released on Wednesday.
In its report, the...
NHS sends confidential patients’ records to India... →
bijan sabet: Some thoughts about privacy →
I should probably know better than take on an issue like privacy when I’m in a hurry and jotting down a post on my iPhone but I can’t help myself.
Here goes…
This week there has been a lot of heat about our privacy. The nyt ran a story about “over sharing”, facebook now makes our data available…
Interesting points about privacy on social networking sites and the fact that it should be...
EMR Software Support and the SafeGuard EMR...
By 2014 over $20 billion worth of stimulus incentives will become available to physicians that adopt “meaningful use” of EHR, SafeGuard EMR is the “Choice of Doctors” because it is easy to use, easy to implement, easy to customize, easy to chart.
Doctors, Nurses and staff need to be able to quickly, easily, and efficiently access information. If there is a challenge they need...
Slate: How Future Historians Will Use the Twitter... →
GoogleSharing - A Special Kind Of Proxy →
Big Brother is watching your searches, knows where you are, what you search, and has access to your medical records too via Google Health. How secure is your information? Creating a transparent layer is a good thing. What is google doing with all of this information?
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GoogleSharing is a special kind of anonymizing proxy service, designed for a very specific threat. It...
Open Source and EMR Systems
Open Source and Electronic Medical Records Systems With the mandate deadline looming for EMR (Electronic Medical Records) for practitioners by 2014 many new EMR software vendors are emerging as well as corporate giants jumping into the market such as Dell, GE, and so on. What is interesting to notice that Open Source technology is playing an increasingly more important role in EMR...
“Having an easy time firing your loyal employees indicates a lack of courage and...”
– Ben Horowitz - Four Things Some VCs Do That I Don’t Like // ben’s blog (via hiten) (via mikehudack)
Have you ever wondered where your data is going?
SafeGuard EMR Security.
Medical practitioners are generating volumes of patient, clinical and financial data. Depending on your EMR software, you may be using local systems or may be even subscribed to some hosted EMR software solution and accessing your data using your web browser. Have you ever wondered how secure is your EMR data? The data that you are generating by running your practice...
How secure is your EMR? →
Is your EMR Secure? Are your records safe? Who has access to your EMR data? Is your data stored in the US or abroad? The EMR industry is a changing ecological landscape. SafeGuard EMR is the leader in the industry check out Alex’s blog.
“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their...”
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Surgeon Stealing Sedatives 'Accidentally' Cuts Off... →
Ouch!
Threadsy- How many accounts do you have?
Got my invite from the insiders at Threadsy and giving it a whirl now…seems like it will make life easier. threadsy.com
what is threadsy? threadsy is a new kind of messaging experience created for anyone to use. it combines all of your existing accounts in one place and enhances them with relevant information from your social networks and the public web. the effect is a brand new...
“If you go with the flow in America today, you will end up overweight or obese.”
– Thomas Frieden, head of CDC in The Atlantic :: Beating Obesity
This is a great article with many gems:
“The obese are more likely to be depressed, to miss school or work, to feel suicidal, to earn less, and to find it difficult to marry. And their health care costs a lot. Obese Americans spend...
Twitter users are mobile, urban, and engaged... →
Is your Doctor Googling you? by Glenn Laffel MD
Monday, April 19, 2010
These days it’s a given that anyone you meet, from prospective employers to next Friday’s date is Googling you. But how would you feel if you knew that practice extended to your psychiatrist? If anecdotal observations by Brian Clinton, Benjamin Silverman and David Brendel are generalizable, the behavior is common. Writing the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, the...
“She was in the conference room, pouring a cup of coffee, when the other...”
– so fucking great
Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley? - NYT (via nickdouglas)
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Polish President
My thoughts go out to the people in Poland. A true tragedy.