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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

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One service, called UpToDate , employs 6,300 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers to manually review the most recent medical information to produce synopses for practicing doctors. Another strategy is to translate consensus clinical guidelines to standardized practice protocols with clinical decision support algorithms (e.g.

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How the EMR Is Increasing Innovation and Creativity in Health Care

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This same mistake-proofing process and technology embedded in the electronic medical record (EMR) can move us a great distance toward safer, higher quality, and more affordable health care. Information technology has come late to health care delivery. Detailed prompts can standardize and improve care.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business

Health information and other technology. Achieving these essential features will be more easily accomplished with the aid of health information technology (IT), including electronic medical records (EMRs) and population-health-management software. whether someone is employed and his or her earnings over time).

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