Category Archives: EMR

DrChrono’s Free iPad EMR App Certified for $44k in Federal Incentives

Dr. Chrono co-founders Daniel Kivatinos and Michael Nusimow

Last September during Health 2.0, I interviewed Daniel Kivatinos and Michael Nusimow, co-founders of Dr. Chrono, a free iPad app of EHR/EMR and other point-of-care tools for physicians.

DrChrono has just announced that it has received official government certification approves $44,000 reimbursement for the app, as explained in the company’s press release.

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Lowe on Hurdles Facing Electronic Medical Records

From Stanford News

The change to electronic medical records is slowly becoming a reality across the country. In an effort to examine how best to move forward with these far-reaching changes within hospitals, Henry Lowe, MD, conducted a Stanford study that reviewed all the scientific literature that has examined one area of electronic record keeping: the change within the intensive care units of hospitals from the traditional handwritten physician order notes to computerized physician order entry — doctors using computers to order medications, diagnostic tests and procedures.

Lowe, senior author of the study and senior associate dean for information resources and technology, discussed the study, which was published online in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine on Jan. 21, with Inside Stanford Medicine writer Tracie White. (Other study authors included first author David Maslove, MD, a graduate student in biomedical informatics, and Norman Rizk, MD, professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine.) Read more »

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