With the US government trying to stimulate wider adoption of electronic medical records (EMR), Wal-Mart is diving in head first by marketing its very own EMR product. By using its buying power, Wal-Mart is combining Dell computers with EMR software from eClinicalWorks and offering the bundle as an affordable way for small medical offices to afford an EMR system. The EMR will allow medical professionals to digitally record patient charts, organize billing statements, and handle patient registration. Wal-Mart believes this product will appeal to smaller medical groups and practices since they have already successfully implemented the technology in their store-based health clinics that can be found now in 8 states across the US.
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Tags: computer, Dell, eClinicalWorks, electronic medical record, EMR, health, medicine, Wal-Mart
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Dr. Steven Chang, the author of DailyDose, is a staff physician with Kosmix RightHealth. Dr. Chang practices Family Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where his medical interests include both pediatric and geriatric care, public health, gay and lesbian health, and sleep medicine. Dr. Chang trained at the Stanford University affiliated O'Connor Hospital, and was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health. He holds an M.D. from McGill University and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
this is an useful information for me
March 12th, 2009 at 9:38 am
hi, i am highly against computerized medical records. if you remember a while back, there was a person in a government job who took his laptop home and it was stolen. that laptop had personal records of u.s. veterans. luckily my records were not on that laptop because thanks to the person who stole that laptop, many veterans had their personal information stolen and had to straighten out that information with the veteran’s administration. if medical records are going to be the way things will be stored, there is a risk of your personal information being hacked into which could possibly damage your records and credit. i oppose this being signed into law. also, president clinton tried to get something similar to this approved when he was our president and it was not approved by congress to get to mr. clinton to be signed into law. thank you.
March 12th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Walmart is already too invasive in our world. There will be no way to prevent HIPPA violations!!! Somebody needs to stop them.
March 25th, 2009 at 6:22 am
This is a very interesting post onIT and health care joining together for maximum efficiency t. I still believe that our private info should not be transferred digitally, only stored digitally and not connected to the web in anyway.
Check this out , pretty disturbing already
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090227_9147.php
As with anything , there are pros and cons
March 25th, 2009 at 8:21 am
It is important to make sure that all of your medical records are safe and secure which is why I am thrilled that they are going to be turning all medical records into electronic medical records. I feel allot safer knowing that not just anyone who stumbles into the office can look through my medical records and steal all of my personal information.