March 5, 2020
Dr. Joseph Sirven: How hard is it for patients to access their electronic medical records?
KJZZ Phoenixby Lauren Gilger KJZZ’s medical commentator Dr. Joseph Sirven joined The Show to explain the issue surrounding EMRs. Reach: KJZZ-FM, 91.5, is a commercial station owned by Maricopa Community Colleges in the Tempe, AZ area. The format of the station is news and jazz. Context: Joseph Sirven, M.D. is a Mayo Clinic neurologist. Dr. Sirven’s research pertains to all […]
Tags: Dr. Joseph Sirven, electronic medical records, KJZZ Arizona
September 18, 2014
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Laura Wuotila with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations Reuters Experimental Virus Being Tested as Cancer […]
Tags: ABC News, ABC-15, ABC15 Arizona, Advocate Health Care, Al Jazeera America, alternative medicine, alzheimer's disease, American Medical Association, AOL News, Argus Leader, Arizona Republic, Arizona State University
February 26, 2013
Computerization in Health Care Demands High Data Standards
Recent reports bookend the promise and peril of computerization and the electronic medical record in health care. On the truly positive side, the Mayo Clinic and UnitedHealth Group have teamed up to form Optum Labs, a research group aimed at mining (initially) claims records for over 100 million people and 5 million clinical records. The lab underscores the hope […]
Tags: claims records, computerization, data analytics, electronic medical records, Harvard Business Review, Optum Labs, UnitedHealth Group
October 12, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relation NY Times The Ups […]
Tags: alzheimers, American Society for Preventive Cardiology, arthritis, Arthritis Today, Bismarck Tribune, Cardiology, Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer’s Disease Research at Mayo Clinic, Doctor Radio, Dr. Dawn Milliner, Dr. Eric Matteson, Dr. Ronald Petersen, Dr. Stephen Kopecky
September 5, 2012
Better Care Through Sharing Electronic Medical Records
Earlier this year we marked the first anniversary in a landmark collaboration that is already achieving major milestones on the road to better care through sharing electronic medical records (EMRs)…Together, Intermountain Healthcare (based in Utah), Geisinger Health System (Pennsylvania), Group Health Cooperative (Washington), Kaiser Permanente (California), and Mayo Clinic (Minnesota) have created the Care Connectivity […]
Tags: Care Connectivity Consortium, electronic medical records, Geisinger Health System, Group Health Cooperative, Health Affairs Blog, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente
November 2, 2009
Electronic medical records critical to better health care
When Dr. Henry Plummer developed the concept of the “unit record” nearly 100 years ago, his idea was to place all of a patient’s records in a single file that traveled with the patient and could be stored in a central repository. His concept of medical care continuity quickly became the standard for medical record […]