PDAs Help VNA Save Time, Money, Staff
July 8, 2005 - The experiences of Home Health VNA, Lawrence , Mass. , demonstrate clearly the power of mobile technologies. Before the home health agency implemented mobile technologies, its nurses and 20 administrative staff members often spent 10 days verifying patients' care plans. Now it takes nurses and significantly fewer administrative staff only one day. Full Text Article
Source: http://www.mobilehealthdata.com/article.cfm?articleId=1510&banner=p1

Medical Charts Without Paper
July 7, 2005 - In the not too distant future, a physician affiliated with Citrus Memorial Hospital will be able to sit at her desk at home and dial into the hospital's computer system over a secure Internet connection and check in on her patient. Full Text Article
Source: http://sptimes.com/2005/07/07/Citrus/Medical_charts_withou.shtml

Oxford Hospital , Others in its System to Eliminate Paper Records
July 5, 2005 - Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi, along with five other hospitals in the Memphis, Tenn.-based system, are embarking on a major project to eliminate paper records. Full Text Article
Source: http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/12057367.htm

High-tech Charting - State (LA) Promotes Electronic Medical Records Systems
July 3, 2005 - Although Louisiana has gained a reputation for less-than-progressive approaches to business, the bayou state has become a leading-edge proponent of the use of electronic medical records. Louisiana was the second state to join the eHealth Initiative Foundation's State Health Information Technology Policy Summit Initiative. The program brings state policy officials together with health-care, consumer and business leaders to help improve health care through IT. Health-care leaders will meet in Baton Rouge on July 21 to begin developing a plan to implement the electronic medical records systems.
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Source: http://2theadvocate.com/stories/070305/bus_biz001.shtml

Abbott Hospital Goes Digital
July 1, 2005 - Abbott Northwestern Hospital has entered the digital age. After more than two years of intense planning and a multimillion-dollar investment in new software, the Minneapolis hospital's new medical-records system goes live today. Abbott Northwestern, the second-largest hospital in the Twin Cities, is the first large hospital run by Allina Hospitals & Clinics to go digital. Full Text Article
Source: http://twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2005/07/04/story2.html

Behind the Wires: Rural Hospital in Wisconsin has IT success
June 28, 2005 - Healthleaders article highlights the work of Mike Bartman, IT Director at a Wisconsin rural hospital and how he is working to reform the role of IT in rural hospitals.
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Source: http://www.healthleaders.com/news/feature1.php?contentid=69405

How Changes in the Medicare Coverage Process have Facilitated the Spread of New Technologies
June 23, 2005 - The Medicare coverage decision process can affect the availability and use of new technologies. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently made advances in making its coverage decision process speedier, predictable, and more transparent. Full Text Article
Source: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.w5.296/DC1

Dominican Docs Get Mobile App
June 22, 2005 - Physicians in the Dominican Republic will be offered free clinical reference software that can run on Tablet PCs or hand-helds using the Windows Mobile operating system. Full Text Article
Source: http://www.mobilehealthdata.com/article.cfm?articleid=1486

Maine Gets Personal with Epocrates
June 7, 2005 - A coalition of Maine health care organizations has integrated drug formulary information from several of state's payers into hand-held drug reference software from San Mateo, Calif.-based Epocrates Inc. Maine Health Alliance, a Bangor-based, eight-hospital delivery system, and Maine Primary Care Association, an Augusta-based practice advocacy group, will pay the first-year development costs for the project. It has not been determined how participants will pay for monthly updates to the formulary information.
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Source: http://www.mobilehealthdata.com/article.cfm?articleId=1460&banner=p1

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