EMR News 07/04/2011

Happy Independence Day to all of our USA readers

BBC News - Ronald Reagan statue to be unveiled at US Embassy in London today

EMR

National experts share ideas on electronic medical records - PostBulletin.com: Rochester, MN

Wisconsin’s Regional Extension Center Selects athenahealth as an EHR Value Vendor Partner

New chief nursing officer helps transition to electronic medical records

PatientClick Launches Ground-breaking Electronic Medical Record-keeping for Physicians, Small Clinics

Hospital Information Systems (HIS) - Global Opportunity Assessment, Competitive Landscape and Market Forecasts to 2017

Apps

Technology in (Medical) Education: Google+ Early Impressions - Lots to Like - A Few Things to Tweak

Comment

One for the Gipper: Brits to mark 4th of July by honoring Ronald Reagan

Pater J Reilly: IRS Looking at When Bloggers Can Be Considered Part of News Media

News

How are the new interns doing?

CORRECTING and REPLACING VA Awards 14 Major Technology Contracts

CMS proposes policy and payment changes for outpatient care in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers

CMS proposes policy, payment rate changes for the Physician Fee Schedule in 2012

International

Call for Papers: Policy Lessons from a Decade of eGovernment, eHealth & eInclusion

Across Health digital survey EMEA 2011

Drugs: Fixing Prices and Supply Shortages - Tim Worstall - It's All Trivial Or Obvious Except - Forbes

Billing

Maturity Works: Baltimore County program gives older workers second chance - Baltimore Sun

University General Health System, Inc. Acquires Autimis, LLC andAutimis Medical Billing, LLC - MarketWatch

Medical

Image Credit Lockheed Martin

HULC robotic exoskeleton undergoing biomechanical testing with the U.S. Army

IASLC: Adjunctive use of 3-D imaging system increases utility of CT lung cancer screening

How does your doctor interpret your HSG ?

HCV New Drug Research: Virtual liver may be real lifesaver

Special Issue: The global health burden of hepatitis C virus infection

Ophthalmology

Kibbutz Shamir and Essilor Complete Acquisition of 50 Percent of Shamir Optical by Essilor

Orthopaedics

Smith & Nephew: Company Snapshot | Mark Carter

Chiropractic

Demandforce joins ACA’s corporate membership program

2 Palmer students receive awards from Association of the History of Chiropractic

Meaningful Use

West Carroll Health Systems Achieves Stage 1 Meaningful Use with Healthland Electronic Health Record Solution

HIPAA

Think HIPAA's privacy rules are tough? You should see 'em in Texas

Changes in store for health insurance privacy rule

Tech

Move Over, Sony. Now Hackers Are Attacking Apple. iCloud Beware?

Mobile

FOSS Patents: Apple files motion for preliminary injunction in the U.S. against four Samsung products: Infuse 4G, Galaxy S 4G, Droid Charge, Galaxy Tab 10.1

Miscellaneous

Obama’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’・Has Cost $278,000 per Job

Quote

“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”

Ronald Reagan