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Electronic Medical Records (EMR) or Electronic Health Records (EHR) are the most modern formats emerging in the medical field thanks to the innovations emerging in Information Technology Segment.  Most of the current day patients are aware of medical attention needs unlike the olden past. However,...

Nearly 90% (86%) of over 1000 adults recently surveyed by Harris Interactive stated that they wanted their physicians to move to an all-electronic format for medical records.  Another 71% want their physicians to prescribe electronically.  A total of 44% said that they would access their records...

The article is based upon the premise that U.S. pharmacies are reporting fewer filled prescriptions. Many Americans have determined correctly that filling their prescriptions via the Internet from mail-order and foreign outlets is less expensive. Other Americans simply cannot afford the high cost of...

1)  Concerns over the new FDA restrictions on ESA's is being overstated. 2)  Amgen will continue to do well in the ESA market place, in spite of these changes. 3)  J&J will receive the brunt of these changes, strictly because of their market concentration in the oncology market. 4) ...

The VA has already won many awards for an electronic medical records system, which tax payers have already paid for. Adopting the VA "CPRS" program would save the taxpayers and the private sector hundreds of billions of dollars.

The most recent estimate of the costs to establish the nationwide system of electronic health records (EHR) which President Bush envisioned by 2014 came out of a conference by the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM) yesterday.  That figure was $150 billion for full implementation of networked...

For at least the past five years, the U.S. Congress has toyed with the healthcare industry about getting serious with some real money commitments for health IT.  Finally, there seems to be legislation that has a really good shot at being passed even in this Presidential Election Year.   ...

No economic shock to healthcare industry as this is totally recession free and cannot get disturbed due to any upheavel of economic zig zags. The polulation demographics and disease demographics does suggest that the various demands from the community has NOT been properly met thanks to acute shortage...

The second national scorecard shows that the U.S. spends more than twice as much on each person as most other industrialized countries.  But it has fallen to last place (out of 19) among major industrialized nations in preventing deaths through the use of timely and effective care, according to...

Lurking within the legislation which the U.S. Senate passed this week by a veto-proof margin to prevent the 10.6% Medicare pay reduction to physicians was a provision for a "stepped down" system of bonus payments for physicians who electronically prescribe.  Senator...