Article by Dr Bill Cast from No More Clipboards, a personal health records company on why doctors hate EMRs:
“Today most EHRs and EMRs are invasive both to workflow and finances. While high cost is a significant barrier to physician adoption, workflow disruption remains the killer deterrent. Most proprietary softwares offer a limited palate of practice [...]
Forbes have an article about Epic Systems which is a nice overview of the company:
Big name companies like General Electric, Siemens, McKesson and Cerner are rushing to profit from the push to install electronic patient records.
But the hottest company in the electronic medical records industry is a secretive Wisconsin outfit called Epic Systems. It does [...]
It’s time to register for m-Health NZ 2009. We have a great line up of local and international speakers for this one-day conference on 6th November 2009 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
There’s a huge discount for students, so if you are researching mobile healthcare, this would be a great event for you to [...]
The whole team at the National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland is live-blogging the HINZ 2009 conference in Rotorua, New Zealand.
You can see all the blog posts up on our new Health InnoVation Exchange website at: www.hive.org.nz
I’m also doing intermittent tweets using the #hinz09 hashtag.
We’re going to be offering our Post-Graduate Diploma in Health Informatics at the University of Auckland via distance learning from next year. This means that the course which we have been teaching at the University of Auckland for some years will now be available to students from around the world.
If you are interested in a [...]