eMAR stands for Electronic Medication Administration Record and it is a point-of-care process utilizing bar code reading technology to monitor the bedside administration of medications. Generally accepted inventory management processes...
The Electronic Health Records Association (EHR Association) has made specific recommendations to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on measurable criteria for achieving...
Organizations see improved productivity as a result of the many processes that become automated through the use of EMR technology. Tasks like pulling/filing paper charts become replaced by simply clicking a patient's name in the EMR system.
It is estimated that approximately 7,000 deaths occur each year in the United States due to medication errors. These errors are predominately due to hand-writing illegibility, wrong dosing, missed drug-drug or drug-allergy reactions.
The Administration module in MDSEase forms the basis of setting up the practice, setting up its various master d
On February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act. The health IT component of the Bill is the HITECH Act, which appropriates $19.2 billion dollars to encourage healthcare organizations...
ADL-Activities of Daily Living. Clinicians assess a patient's ability to perform these daily activities independently. Based on physical, emotional and mental functioning, clinicians provide treatments and interventions to support the patient with daily activities ...
Obama has held very strong on his commitment of $10 billion a year for 5 years in health care. Obama's set the audacious goal of full digital health records by 2014. The question is if it's even possible to invest that much money...
The Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association) announced today its newly-elected Vice Chair and Executive Committee members as well as the re-election of the Association’s Chairman.
Outside of surgical intervention, the physician's most frequently used, efficacious, and potentially dangerous therapeutic tool is a prescription for medication. In 2007 alone, more than 4.5 billion prescriptions were written-literally
