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Paperless health care? One hospital's long journey

(AP) -- Baby Riley Matthews wheezed noisily on the exam table. "He's belly-breathing," the emergency-room doctor said worriedly - Riley's little abdomen was markedly rising and falling with each breath, a sign of respiratory ...

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created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Statewide study confirms 'paperless' hospitals are better for patients

Results from a large-scale Johns Hopkins study of more than 40 hospitals and 160,000 patients show that when health information technologies replace paper forms and handwritten notes, both hospitals and patients benefit strongly.

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created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Push for better ways to share e-health records

(AP) -- Think you entered the digital health age when your doctor switched from paper charts to computerized medical records? Think again: An e-chart stored in one doctor's computer too often can't be read by another's across ...

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created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

iPad, anyone? Hospitals looking at the mobile device

Apple's new creation, the iPad, may be a novelty to many consumers, but hospitals are already starting to abandon paper-and-pen clipboards for hand-held digital tablets.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Wanted: 40,000 more health IT professionals

If the U.S. healthcare system moves toward wider adoption of advanced information technology systems to control health care costs, reduce medical errors and improve patient care, it will need at least 40,000 additional health ...

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created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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