Phreesia Equates to Patient Check-in

April 29, 2009
Phreesia Equates to Patient Check-in

Phreesia is a wireless touch screen tablet and it’s portable. The patient completes his information with a stylus or by a touch of his fingertip. Phreesia helps facilitate patient check-in by helping medical personnel take improved documentation; it automates eligibility and benefits checks, and increases patient satisfaction. It replaces paper forms, which improves productivity. The [...]

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Phreesia Raises $11.6M To Make Waiting-Room Clipboards Obsolete

April 27, 2009
Phreesia Raises $11.6M To Make Waiting-Room Clipboards Obsolete

Phreesia, maker of electronic tablets to replace those pesky intake clipboards at doctors’ offices, announced today that it brought in $11.6 million in a round led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Sandbox Industries. This brings the New York company’s total capital raised to $25 million — which it plans to use to enlist more [...]

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Who Is Pushing for Electronic Health Records And Who Isn’t?

April 27, 2009
Who Is Pushing for Electronic Health Records And Who Isn’t?

Since the federal government is putting huge sums of money into the expansion of the use of electronic health records in the United States it seems like doctors would be jumping on the bandwagon. But this isn’t the case although the monetary incentives are great and the cost has been one of the reasons that [...]

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The Issue of Electronic Health Records and Privacy

April 27, 2009
The Issue of Electronic Health Records and Privacy

Privacy has been a right for a very long time when dealing with medical records, the laws is made by each state government. Plus the honorable tradition of doctor-patient privilege has been a method of protecting a patient’s privacy. It has become an issue.
In 2003 the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a federal [...]

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Electronic Medical Records and Electronic Prescriptions

April 27, 2009
Electronic Medical Records and Electronic Prescriptions

Although computer systems that signal alerts for allergies and potential drug interactions are part of the electronic health records system and are there to reduce errors when prescribing medications, many doctors ignore the alarm. Apparently, these doctors instead rely on their own decision making process without regard to the errors that could be made by [...]

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The Case for Electronic Health Records

April 27, 2009
The Case for Electronic Health Records

In the United States, healthcare remains a top priority and is consistently part of the national public policy agenda. Political leaders and healthcare providers attempt to address issues of quality, access, efficiency and affordability. Solutions to these challenges are being pursued through a great variety of strategies and methodologies ranging from adoption of best practices [...]

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Praises for and Success of Military Related EHR

April 18, 2009
Praises for and Success of Military Related EHR

On the 9th of April 2009 President Obama trumpeted the use of electronic health records for the military and the convenience of these records for veterans. This new form of organization for military records will start when someone enters service and will be transferred to the VA when appropriate. The Department of Veterans Affairs and [...]

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