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Wide Angle: Electronic Health Records

Analysis by Tracy Staedter
Tue Aug 25, 2009 07:58 AM ET
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Doctor-e-tablet The stimulus package has allocated more than $20 billion for assistance, grants and incentives that will help physicians and hospitals convert to electronic health records. But will e-records save money and improve efficiency? And what about patient privacy? This Wide Angle series will explore the questions, concerns, reasons and debate surrounding Electronic Health Records.

  • Top 10: Reasons for Electronic Health Records
    Better patient safety, improvements in efficiency and job creation are just a few of the reasons it’s high time for medical record-keeping to enter the digital age.

Feature: Google Earth for the Body
IBM researchers develop a 3-D visualization tool for electronic health records.

  • Video: Virtual Medicine
    Imagine being able to get a check-up from your doctor down the hall from your office. See how technology will make health care more accessible and convenient.

  • Q&A: Reasons for Electronic Health Records
    HANG TIGHT! IT'S COMING
    Jay Wolfson, a professor of public health and medicine and an associate vice president of health, policy and safety at the University of South Florida, dispels some of the misconceptions about electronic health records, which he says are inevitable.

  • My Take: 5 Lessons We Can Learn from the U.K.'s Switch to Electronic Health Records
    HANG TIGHT! IT'S COMING
    Charles Schade, director of scientific support at the West Virginia Medical Institute in Charleston, WV, says we can learn something from the United Kingdom's switch from paper to digital.

  • Audio Slideshow: Our Office's Switch to Electronic Health Records
    HANG TIGHT! IT'S COMING
    Follow the progress of one doctor's office's ordeal coverting patient records and charts to a computerized system.

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Tags: Computer Networking, Computers, Desktop Computers, Internet, Laptops

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