Taking a Walk on the Supply Side: 10 Steps to Control Health Care Costs
This article describes 10 approaches that show promise for reducing health care expenditures. All of these savings would be easier to achieve if health care providers used modern information systems. Such systems would lower administrative costs, reduce medical errors, and make it easier to retrieve test results and review medications. Electronic medical records could give physicians timely access to complete medical histories, in many cases eliminating the need to hospitalize patients.

A feasibility study of signed consent for the collection of patient identifiable information for a national paediatric clinical audit database
Systematically obtaining individual signed consent for sharing patient identifiable information with an externally located clinical audit database is difficult. Obtaining such consent is unlikely to be successful unless additional resources are specifically allocated to training, staff time, and administrative support.

A great site for medical informatics and health IT-related jobs
Job Categories available on this site from multiple job sites: Academic Jobs | Bioinformatics Jobs | Biotechnology Jobs | Consulting Jobs | Health IT Jobs | Informatics Jobs | Genomics Jobs | Medical Records Jobs | Medical Coding and Billing Jobs | Medical Transcription Jobs | Proteomics Jobs | Pharmacogenomics Jobs | Telemedicine Jobs

Report to the 73rd Legislative Assembly: Electronic Health Records & Data Connectivity
The Oregon Health Policy Commission Subcommittee on Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Data Connectivity was formed to develop recommendations for 1) fostering the adoption of EHR and 2) developing the infrastructure for the secure exchange of electronic health data in Oregon. The following report outlines the Subcommittee’s recommendations on the appropriate role for government, in conjunction with the private sector, to further these efforts. It is the intent of the OHPC and the Subcommittee that these recommendations be used to further discussion with state legislatures, providers, and other stakeholders to move the state’s health information technology forward.