Tag: HEALTHCARE

Doctors are being offered an incentive by Medicare to start ditching old paper prescriptions in favor of electronic ones. The expectation is that e-prescriptions will reduce costs and minimize mistakes due to doctors' notoriously terrible hand writing. Starting January 1st of 2009, doctors will start receiving bonuses for using e-prescriptions, which are accepted by 80-percent of pharmacies in ...

The National Center for Health Statistics, a part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a new study that reveals how far digital medical records have to go before replacing the mess of paper records doctors currently rely on. According to a survey of 2,000 doctors nationwide, just under 40-percent of doctors use electronic records. Most use them in combination with ...

The booming cost of health care in the United States and the successful deployment of international telecommunications infrastructure has created a booming market in Telemedicine, the practice of providing medical services from remote locations. US Hospitals are currently sending a large number of your x-rays, MRIs and CT scans to Bangalore, India to be processed and analyzed. Most of the ...

Now this is disturbing -- CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen was happily researching for a story on the above topic, and "stumbled upon" her own medical history online. Every un-fun detail from mammograms to removal of foot-splinters was chronicled on her insurance provider's Web site, and, in a similar fashion, the name of every prescription drug she's taken since 2003 was listed on ...