Your degree is in medicine, not computer science. Why then are so many physicians finding themselves focused on software these days? Government, payers and market forces are all pushing physicians to consider an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) strategy. As if practicing medicine weren’t challenge enough, now you need to adopt a new layer of technology infrastructure…

Selecting medical software is hard. There are literally hundreds of billing, practice management and EMR systems. With little time for research, doctors and office managers often make the wrong choice.

Software Advice is a free service that helps physicians find the right electronic medical records software for the computerized practice. It can Compare Leading Software Programs, Narrow down a "short list" of systems and Get FREE demos and price quotes.

 

Smartcase is a medical information management tool designed specifically for law firms, legal departments and legal nurse consultants that is as simple to use as any web browser.

If you have ever reviewed a large volume of medical records in preparation for trial, you understand the need for a cost effective management solution. The innovative SmartCase platform is built upon a quarter century of experience by legal services pioneer Litigation Management, Inc.

Mediconex, the international conference and Medical Exhibition will be held in Egypt during the period from 5 - 8 April 2008 at the Cairo International Conference Centre ( CICC ).

The development, the growth and the great support of the Egyptian government to the medical field and all branches related to the healthcare; forming together a necessity for you to share this booming industry. This importance is increased if you consider the Egypt is your best gate to all Arab countries and to Africa.

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

The above quote by Eleanor Roosevelt is the theme of an excellent article published by ADVANCE and the hope these five facilities had when they opened up to ADVANCE and bravely shared their stories of EHR disasters and downfalls. One facility watched as money drained out of its practice and its patients switched doctors; another made its physicians' workday even more cumbersome than it had been in the paper world; and a third unknowingly put its patients at great risk just by updating its system. In the end, however, all shared one remarkable similarity: They never gave up on their EHRs.

Read their stories and share their experiences. Hopefully you can learn from their mistakes.

Essentially, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems collect information about physical objects automatically. Because information about tagged objects can be transmitted for multiple objects simultaneously through physical barriers and from a distance, RFID has an advantage compared to reading barcodes that require ‘line-of-sight’ and active user interaction to access the enclosed information. RFID systems exist of three main parts: (1) the tag, which is the identification device attached to the object being tracked, (2) the reader that recognises the presence of a tag and reads and processes the information which is stored on the tag and (3) the antenna, which is part of the communication between tag and reader.

The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) provides Design Guidance and controls which allow a new generation of safer, more usable and compelling health applications to be quickly and easily created. This site is aimed at user interface designers, application developers and patient safety experts who want to find out more about the benefits of a standardized approach to user interface design.

One aspect of electronic care records which has received little attention is the potential benefit to clinical research. Electronic records could facilitate new interfaces between care and research environments, leading to great improvements in the scope and efficiency of research. Benefits range from systematically generating hypotheses for research to undertaking entire studies based only on electronic record data. Researchers and research managers must engage with electronic record initiatives to realize these benefits. Clinicians and patients must have confidence in the consent, confidentiality and security arrangements for the uses of secondary data. Provided that such initiatives establish adequate information governance arrangements, within a clear ethical framework, innovative clinical research should flourish. Major benefits to patient care could ensure given sufficient development of the care-research interface via electronic records.

 

For most individuals, long-term maintenance of weight loss requires long-term, supportive intervention. Internet-based weight loss maintenance programs offer considerable potential for meeting this need. Careful design processes are required to maximize adherence and minimize attrition.

A paper published on "Journal of Medical Internet Research" (JMIR) describes the development, implementation and use of a Web-based intervention program designed to help those who have recently lost weight sustain their weight loss over 1 year.

[ Rhythm Reloaded ] is a team of four senior electrical and computer engineering students at Calvin College.

The team is designing an electronic stethoscope that will:

• Stream real-time audio from a wireless chestpiece
• Record high-quality audio data from a patient's body
• Store this audio data in a convenient format
• Use a USB interface to transfer the audio files to a computer
• Reduce the amount of ambient noise that a doctor hears
• Be simple, accurate, and easy to use!