Even with the vast majority of medical records still stored in paper files, health IT already has had a profound effect on the ways in which people seek and receive care, thanks to social networking, electronic patient-physician communication, mobile applications and, of course, the growing number of EMRs like pediatric emr , Cardiology emr or any specialty specific EMR, some experts say.

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Serigraph Inc. chairman John Torinus has spent years fine-tuning the health insurance coverage he provides to employees to drive down costs for his company and its workers.Now, he has turned to the world of concierge medicine, hiring Dr. Mark Niedfeldt to provide free, direct primary care to employees on the printing company's campus in West Bend.

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Women who drink wine are actually less likely to gain weight than those who are teetotal, according to a new report.
Researchers found that regular moderate female drinkers were less likely to become obese after a 13 year study of more than 19,000 women.
The finding seems to contradict received dietary wisdom which has it that alcohol consumption leads to weight gain.

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The old adage is true, "You get what you pay for". Some primary care physicians, motivated by sheer exhaustion have decided to trade quality for quantity.The HMOs have had an effect on all medical practices to the point that many patients have grown used to crowded waiting rooms, lengthy waits in the office and a rushed visit with the doctor.

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Tanya Dargusch did everything right.
The 45-year-old Washington Township resident works out, eats right, and doesn't smoke.
But in 2002, the then 38-year-old athletic trainer for Washington Township High School found herself in a Virtua hospital bed recovering from her first mitral heart valve replacement surgery.

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"A lot of preventive stuff has fallen by the wayside," says Djordjevic. "If you don't have the time to listen to your patients, you are going to order an expensive test when a physical exam would have told you what you need to know. But if you can give patients the time, you can save the system money."

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More than 40 percent of women don't know it is leading killer, survey finds.

Despite public awareness campaigns, almost half of all American women still don't know that heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, new research finds.

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State regulators are trying to rein in discount health and dental plans that officials say frequently overstate benefits.

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In a striking example of the conflict between controlling healthcare costs and providing quality service, a group of South Miami cardiologists has written a letter to patients complaining that huge cuts in Medicare rates may force many heart specialists out of business or mean reduced services for their patients.

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The problem of developing security mechanisms needed for management protocols and policy management of personal health information (PHI) remains largely unsolved, according to Gerald Masson, PhD, director of the John Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI), who spoke at an assembly hearing of the Health IT Standards Committee on Nov. 19.

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