Personal Health Records in Your Future
In the previous blogs about medical records, we've pointed out that medical providers, by law, are required to replace paper-based patient records with electronic medical records [...]
Part 3: How to Protect Your Medical Records
In our previous blog about Electronic Medical Record Concerns, we noted that using electronic medical records results in better care and saved lives primarily because the [...]
Part 2: Concerns About Electronic Medical Records
Previously, we wrote that, by law, paper-based patient medical records kept by health providers are being replaced by electronic medical records. All medical facilities must make [...]
Part 1: Is Your Doctor Using Electronic Medical Records?
Does your doctor walk into the examining room with a folder with your name on the tab, stuffed with odd bits of paper, hand-written notes, old [...]
California’s Whooping Cough Epidemic
Are you aware that we're in the midst of a serious whooping cough epidemic? Nearly 1500 cases have been reported in California so far this year, [...]
Given the Massachusetts Experience, What is Our Health Care Future?
In our previous entry, we stated that the Massachusetts health care plan had the same objectives and strategies as the one recently signed by President Obama. [...]