Annals of Internal Medicine (AIM)
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Beth Israel Pilot To Let Patients Add Notes To Medical Records
Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center received a $450,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund this week to develop a program called OurNotes that allows patients to contribute to their medical records...
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Chuck Lauer: An IT Boondoggle?
A recent Wall Street Journal article left me speechless. Like a lot of other people in healthcare I have been indoctrinated with the belief that unless the industry fully and enthusiastically adopts information technology, hospital and health systems will never run efficiently and be able to deliver quality healthcare to patients... Read More »
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Despite $600 Million From Stimulus, Jury Out On Health Information Exchanges
Despite $600 million in federal dollars allocated to creating health information exchanges designed to facilitate sharing of patient medical information, more work needs to be done to show whether they are living up to their promise, a new RAND Corp. study indicates...
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Ebola Can Attack From Hazmat Suit Surfaces
Over 120 health care workers have died in the Ebola outbreak. Now, doctors are warning each other to be ever-vigilant in precautions, down to how to take off protective gear at the end of a shift...
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Saturated Fat Phobia Lacks Scientific Basis
Strictures against saturated fat, which have constituted U.S. government policy for over three decades, are deeply embedded in the nation’s consciousness. Yet a recent medical journal article is questioning the merits of such policies. Read More »
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