electronic health record
As Australia's personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) project develops, IDC Health Insights predicts that citizen’s health records will be taken out of the traditional, controlled environments.
Australia has unveiled plans for a multi-million dollar electronic health record system for its defense force.
Dr. CP Wong is chairman of the eHealth Consortium and a doctor at a public hospital in the SAR. He shares his views around the importance of electronic health records, its impact to the general public, and how government, private sector and the general public can work together to realize better healthcare service thru a national eHealth strategy.
SINGAPORE – South Korean hospitals are keen to adopt IT to reduce their operational expenditure and improve the quality of their services. Healthcare IT also aids in seamless medical bill reimbursement.
Medical offices owned by hospitals and health systems lead the adoption of electronic healthcare records (EHR) technology, according to the latest results of a survey released recently by SK&A.
EHRs do not solve the problems associated with storing, locating, routing, approving and reviewing explanation of benefits (EOB) forms, invoices, purchase orders, signed privacy acknowledgments, personnel files, compliance records and more. This white paper looks at how Enterprise Content Management solves that problem.
The pressure to reduce IT costs, provide new services and share information is driving awareness of cloud computing across the healthcare sector.
Rising demand for medical care are overwhelming health services and governments resulting in more time being spent on managing than treating. Critical to easing this new management burden is the creation of systems that facilitate information exchange. This paper looks at the development of electronic personal health records and the challenges it poses to all members of the ecosystem.
Dr. C.P. Wong, co-chairman of the eHealth Consortium discusses the results of a recent survey to gauge private sector understanding and acceptance of eHR as a model for future healthcare service delivery.
Personal health records (PHR) today are localized and isolated. For practitioners to be able to offer proactive, responsive and personal care to patients, PHR must become universally available to healthcare providers be they in the private or public sector, individuals in clinics or working for hospitals. Blair Butterfield, VP Global Market Strategy, eHealth Solutions at GE Health, discusses some of the operational and technical challenges that organizations and governments need to resolve for people to start realizing the benefits of universal healthcare.
