Panel recommends new agency to investigate safety of health IT
Health information technology has been touted as crucial to better health care, but a new report says an entirely new […]
Track IT Down
[This article was published in the October 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The application of Electronic Medical Record, if implemented at large in healthcare, will improve patient care, reduce expenses, and fundamentally change the way in which medicine is practised in the country
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[This article was published in the July 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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Building Information Capacity for Better Health: US and Beyond : Ticia Gerber
[This article was published in the June 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The terms e-Health and health information technology (HIT) are used somewhat interchangeably in the United States.
E-HEALTH AND THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM : Denise Silber
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
eHealth is a work in progress. Many countries have named a national coordinator or taskforce, or at a minimum assigned the subject to the tasks of the national health ministry. But no national system provides all of the e-Health services at the present time
MOVING BEYOND HOSPITALS: E-PRESCRIPTIONS : Pushwaz Virk and David W. Bates
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
e-Prescribing is the process of medication prescribing in an outpatient setting, using an ambulatory Computerised Physician Order Entry systems application linked with clinical decision support that can in addition electronically send prescriptions or prescription-related information directly with the pharmacies or pharmacy benefit managers
