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Digital Medicine

Use of computers and digital technologies in the practice and delivery of medical care.

CPOE and Reducing Errors Top 2010 CMIO Priorities

The CMIO magazine website published a 2010 CMIO Compensation Survey in February.   If you are a CMIO, it is a chance to compare your compensation to others.  If you are not, it maybe interesting to note the median compensation falls around $180k to $200k per year.  For other health IT professionals, I think the [...]

Epocrates, a new EHR vendor

Epocrates announced its entrance into the EHR market today at HIMSS 2010 with a press release.  A few points that the press release stressed were

Easy, Accessible and Affordable
Mobile and Web-based
Targeting small or solo practices
Meets Meaningful Use software requirement
Meets HIPAA compliance requirement

The twitterverse is abuzz with this new announcement.   The small ambulatory practices are behind [...]

Natural Language Processing in HIT

In recent discussions with other colleagues in the health informatics or health IT space, we found that there are many researchers and papers in this space but few actual notable applications deployed in the field.  One example that I heard about is the NC DETECT application developed and deployed in the state of North Carolina [...]