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Concern about safety and, likewise, errors in medicine exploded after the first Institute of Medicine report “To Err is Human: building a safer health system” in 1999. (1 [...]

The purpose of this study was to determine the potential benefits of using the Intel Videophone technology as patient physician communication tool. The main issues of the [...]

Implementation of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system in a primary care practice is a complex undertaking. This guideline availability and content analysis study ex [...]

The US leads all other industrialized nations in health care expenditures, now at almost 18% percent of our gross domestic product (GDP), yet healthcare quality in the U [...]

Electronic health records EHRs have the potential to improve measurability and quality of care but excess alerting may reduce alert response through alert fatigue. To und [...]

The annual Health Care Equity Fair (HCEF) is a community health fair hosted in Portland, Oregon that provides free health services to underserved communities. During the [...]

Clinical decision support (CDS) tools are focused on improving medical decision making. A large body of evidence supports the effectiveness of these tools to improve pro [...]

The accumulation of medical literature has made it difficult for providers to retrieve precise answers to clinical questions. Profiling physicians and their questions ma [...]

Electronic medical record alerts and reminders are increasingly relied upon as a means of decreasing medical errors and increasing the quality and cost-effectiveness of c [...]

Personal Health Records (PHRs) are gaining attention within the greater medical community. PHR's give consumers a platform to compile health information from multiple sou [...]