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Contributing Writer · March 12, 2010
Five Question Friday: Interview with a medical student
Today’s Five Question Friday interview is with Anand Popuri, a medical student at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine at the New York Institute of Technology. He shares his perspective on EHR use, and Practice Fusion in particular.
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Contributing Writer · March 11, 2010
Personal information, health data and PHI
The relationship between personal information, medial data, and Protected Health Information (PHI) has been a subject of some confusion. Our hope here is to shed some light on this complex relationship, and add clarity.
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Contributing Writer · March 9, 2010
SaaS Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are stepping onto the main stage
At last week’s HIMSS trade show, one of the clear messages that emerged is that SaaS-based (software-as-a-service) Electronic Health Records(EHRs) are stepping onto the main stage as the most likely way that smaller and solo practices will be able to adopt EHRs in a meaningful...
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Contributing Writer · October 5, 2009
Secondary Health Data a Gold Mine
With health care organizations collecting hundreds of billions of gigabytes of data per year and the Feds poised to assure widespread dissemination of EHRs at long last, PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a survey of industry executives in which 75% predict their organizations’ data will be their...
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Contributing Writer · August 20, 2009
Is my data safe with Practice Fusion?
We recently reviewed the question of putting medical data in the Internet “cloud” from the standpoint of safety (guarding against loss of data), and of security (guarding against theft of data). The discussion was a general overview of the issues involved in paper vs. local...
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