Tag: electronic health records
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Kentucky center helps more than 1,000 providers get electronic health records
The Kentucky Regional Extension Center has helped more than 1,000 health care providers transition to electronic health records, with specialists advising providers so they can meet the federal standards of...
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Electronic health records are helping nurses provide better care, big study finds
Electronic health records are helping nurses get better health outcomes and are improving nursing care, the first big study on the subject has found. The study conducted by the University...
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Health reform means millions more will be covered and more illness will be prevented, federal health official says at UK
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News What will the healthvcare system look like in 2020? Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Howard Koh told a packed house in Lexington Monday that...
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Several pieces of federal health reform law taking effect in 2012
At the beginning of the new year, family doctors started facing a 1 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement if they hadn’t nixed their paper-based prescription pads in favor of an...
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Data leaks are a risk with electronic health records; state says it has safeguards to protect privacy
As hospitals and other health-care providers in Kentucky and across the country are adopting electronic health records to save money and improve care, they do so at some risk. The medical...
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Switch to electronic medical records not without concerns
Though touted as a way to improve patient care and supported by federal funding, Kentucky physicians have concerns about switching to electronic medical records. Doctors are worried about cost, lost...
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Electronic health records are the new frontier in health care
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Just two years ago, the acronym EHR didn’t mean much to many people. But since Congress passed the health-care reform law last year, physicians...
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Kentucky doctors’ offices are the least digitized in the country; increase expected nationwide
Kentucky has the lowest percentage of doctors’ offices who have adopted electronic health record systems, says a survey released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology....
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Private information of Owensboro-area patients found on Web
The private information of thousands of people who visited the Green River District Health Department has been mistakenly available for perusal online since October. Owensboro’s Messenger-Inquirer found 9,986 names and...
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UK, Central Baptist get millions in federal incentives to use electronic health records
University of Kentucky HealthCare and Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington are the first hospital systems in the United States to receive funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘...