Are medical records still in dark ages? Medical Informatics Insider writes that hospitals are still in the dark ages when it comes to record keeping in paper format. This does not apply to all hospitals though. Martin C. Harris, who is a CIO (chief informatics officer) at the Cleveland Clinic, admitted that when the hurricanes hit […]

Medicare will give the EMR used at VA for free. The program is supposed to start in August 2005 and it can save a practice of 5 primary care physicians more than $ 100,000. The Patient’s Doctor blog points out that “MirrorMed is a free and open source EMR and practice management system written in PHP. […]