Initiatives such as a single billing system or one nationalized electronic medical record would go a long way toward decreasing the overhead in our system.
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The collaboration will also focus on leveraging Watson to process an electronic medical record (EMR) based on a deep semantic understanding of the content within an EMR.
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Further, the looming role of the electronic medical record will also set into motion a transformation from paper to electrons will catalyze the digital health movement and accelerate adoption.
What he was referencing back in 2009 was the electronic data stored by his healthcare providers in their electronic medical record (EMR) system (to which he had no access).
Planned for future availability is SAP Mobile Electronic Medical Record (EMR) by Samsung (pictured above), which enables doctors and nurses in hospitals to easily access and update patient records.
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Why wouldn't we want to put that on an electronic medical record that will reduce error rates, reduce our long-term cost of health care, and create jobs right now?
This may become especially problematic under the Affordable Care Act, which increases screening for alcohol problems that could pick up these mild cases and leave them on the patient's electronic medical record.
With new technology, we're creating a single electronic medical record for our men and women in uniform that will follow them from the day they enlist until the day that they are laid to rest.
It is hidden within this wrenching time of healthcare reform, where many doctors are selling their practices to work for someone else, because they cannot afford to buy the required electronic medical record systems.
More than one-third of those doctors polled said they did not have the money to install electronic medical record systems while 20 percent said they did not have the personnel to install electronic medical records.
Lee, previously a founder at health application company Epocrates, has overseen the development of a One Medical iPhone app, website and company-specific electronic medical record all for the sake of preserving the most valuable ingredient in primary care: time.
One contains healthcare data on more than 20 million persons in the United States in different geographic areas and includes special populations, such as children and pregnant women, and another provides access to U.K. electronic medical record data on almost 10 million persons receiving their health care from a general practitioner.
The Trust would be the primary provider of prevention priorities for all Americans, irrespective of insurance status, and would connect back to the medical system through an electronic health record.
But the British Medical Association said it was concerned about the "fragmentation of patient care" as there was not yet a fully-functioning electronic record so different doctors could view a patient's medical history.
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Spriggs is still on a quest to visualize his medical data, which he dubbed DYIEHR for Do It Yourself Electronic Health Record.
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At the same time, ObamaCare increases the costs that a physician faces by continuing to run her own independent medical practice (with elements such as mandates to install costly electronic record keeping).
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