Patricia Walling, a graduate student who has both professional and volunteer experience in a hospital environment, reached out to me via e-mail recently about some of her ideas of how physicians can communicate with their patients through social networking. I liked her ideas and invited her to put together an guest posting on the subject. [...]
Access Announces e-Signature V. 7, Enabling Patients to Securely Authorize e-Forms New product release from the world?s leading electronic forms management, automation & workflow provider enables hospitals to create paperless patient registration & bedside consent processes.Hundreds of hospitals worldwide have eliminated the financial, productivity and environmental costs of managing paper forms with Access Enterprise Forms [...]
Patients felt even more comfortable than physicians when it came to using an electronic health record (EHR) system–and also felt that the information contained in the record was more accurate when they physically saw it being entered electronically, according to a survey by Tampa-based Sage Healthcare Division. Overall, the study found that more than 81 [...]
Researchers at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston showed that when CDs of radiology images were imported from outside emergency departments into the hospital’s picture archiving and communications system (PACS), fewer repetitive studies were performed on patients transferred into the hospital.The study involved 1,487 patients transferred to Brigham & Women’s from Feb. 1, 2009 through [...]
