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Transition to EHRs Improves Breast Cancer Survivor’s Quality of Life: Pam Crum’s Story
Pam Crum is a seven-year breast cancer survivor. A busy mother of two young daughters, Pam also volunteers as a mentor for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
When Pam’s cancer was diagnosed, she was pregnant with her second child. Her medical journey over these seven years has been a complicated one. During that journey, her health care providers were making the transition from paper-based to electronic health records. Pam experienced the transition first-hand, and knows what a big difference it can make.
ONC talked with Pam about her experiences.
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New Research Finds EHRs Improve the Quality of Diabetes Care
Two years ago in an address to Congress, President Obama declared his commitment to invest in electronic health records (EHRs), saying he thought it was perhaps the best way to quickly improve the quality of American health care. Just two years later, that hunch is proving true in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Nurse Administrator Discusses How EHRs Helped Patients in Joplin
Dottie Bringle, R.N., was on her way to Ireland when the tornado hit Joplin, MO, the town where she has worked as the Chief Operating and Chief Nursing Officer at St. John’s Mercy Hospital for 24 years. Standing in line at the Atlanta airport waiting to catch her connecting flight to Dublin, she heard the news that a storm had struck Joplin, and that it was bad. Dottie rushed back to Joplin, and when she arrived, she found that the hospital staff were up and running in a temporary facility, since the hospital building in St. Johns had been destroyed. All patient records were retrieved, however, due to the electronic health record (EHR) system the hospital had transitioned to only three weeks before the storm.
ONC talked to Dottie about St. John’s transition to EHRs and how they proved to be invaluable after the storm.
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Privacy, Security, and Electronic Health Records
Director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Leon Rodriguez, discusses the privacy and security of patient health information stored in electronic health records, and the role of OCR in enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules.
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EHR Case Studies
Dr. Chris Tashjian, a family medicine specialist in rural Ellsworth, WI, provides his perspective on how electronic health records and meaningful use are helping him provide quality care for his patients.
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