 | Feature: Integrated Electronic Medical Records Help One Health Care Team Provide Better Care
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Hospitals and clinicians who use integrated electronic medical records can improve health care delivery and save lives.
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| Duration: 02:38
File Size: 2.41 MB |
| Feature: Making Hospital Discharges Safer for Seniors
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Elderly patients just returning home from the hospital are prone to medication mishaps. Learn how information technology is making the transition from hospital to home ...
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| Duration: 03:38
File Size: 3.33 MB |
| Radiocast: Personal Health Records
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Learn how keeping a personal health record may reduce or eliminate duplicate medical tests and allow you to receive safer and higher-quality health care.
| Duration: 01:02
File Size: 964 KB |
| Feature: An EMR System That Helps Reduce Medication Errors
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
An Electronic Medical Record system can help prevent serious errors from happening when patients see multiple doctors in many different locations. Mr. DeLuca discusses an ...
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| Duration: 02:41
File Size: 2.46 MB |
| Feature: Health IT – Using Technology to Improve Transitional Care
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Christine Sakuda of the Hawaii Primary Care Association talks about her experiences using health technology to connect patients and doctors in Hawaii.
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| Duration: 03:38
File Size: 3.33 MB |
| Feature: Implementing an Electronic Health Record System
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Community health centers are part of the safety net that provides health care to society’s most vulnerable. A partnership of community health centers on Chicago’s Near ...
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| Duration: 3:38
File Size: 3.30 MB |
| Feature: A New Web Site Helps Consumers Navigate the Health Care System
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
A new Web site called "Hospital Compare" offers patient feedback on hospital stays nationwide.
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| Duration: 02:22
File Size: 2.17 MB |
| Radiocast: Comparing Hospitals to Get Quality Care
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
A new web site called Hospital Compare offers patient feedback on hospital stays nationwide.
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| Duration: 01:59
File Size: 932 KB |
| Feature: Research News: AHRQ Unveils a New Forum for Exchanging Innovative Health Care Ideas
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
As a way of capturing and sharing health care innovations, AHRQ has launched the Health Care Innovations Exchange Web site.
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| Duration: 04:16
File Size: 3.91 MB |
| Feature: Telemedicine Project Links Rural Care Clinicians with their Counterparts in the City
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Telemedicine can help patients use technology to connect with their doctors.
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| Duration: 03:50
File Size: 3.52 MB |
| Radiocast: Health Literacy Limited For Many Americans
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Limited health literacy may lessen good results from health care and increase risks for medical errors.
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| Duration: 01:01
File Size: 964 KB |
| Feature: Cutting-Edge Project Allows Sick Kids to Get a Long-Distance Diagnosis
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
A project designed at the University of Rochester Medical Center used technology to bring the doctor’s office to child care centers and schools.
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| Duration: 04:17
File Size: 3.93 MB |
| Feature: Advice to Doctors for When their Patients Bring Too Much Information to an Office Visit
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
As more and more patients use the Internet to research their medical issues, doctors are taking on an additional role – that of interpreter.
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| Duration: 09:12
File Size: 8.42 MB |
| Feature: New Study Examines Whether the Use of Electronic Health Records Leads to Higher Quality Health Care
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Dr. Jeffrey Linder, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, is lead author for an AHRQ-funded study that shows electronic health records aren’t a ...
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| Duration: 01:16
File Size: 1.17 MB |
| Feature: Clinic Develops a New e-Prescribing System
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Electronic prescribing - or using a computer to write a prescription and send it to the pharmacy - may help reduce medication errors and improve patient safety.
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| Duration: 03:13
File Size: 2.94 MB |
| Feature: Public Health Emergency Preparedness
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Communities across the country have taken a hard look at how well prepared they are for public health emergencies.
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| Duration: 06:15
File Size: 5.72 MB |
| Consumer/Quality Insider -- Dizzy From Direct-to-Consumer Ads
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Manufacturers are spending millions of dollars for direct-to-consumer advertising on television, radio, magazines, and the Internet however, does any of it provide ...
| Duration: 09:40
File Size: 8.86 MB |
| Radiocast: Dizzy from Consumer Health Ads
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
It's important not to make health decisions based on what you see in an advertisement before you ask questions and discuss the information with your health professional.
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| Duration: 02:00
File Size: 1.83 MB |
| Clinician Insider -- IT in Pediatric Emergency Departments
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
The hustling, bustling environment of a pediatric emergency department – where split-second decisions can mean life or death – might be the last place you’d expect to ...
| Duration: 11:11
File Size: 10.2 MB |
| Feature: Very Small Infants Have a Greater Rate of Survival in Very Busy Neonatal Intensive Care Units
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Premature babies weighing less than 3.3 pounds at birth – also known as “very-low-birth-weight infants” – have a better chance of surviving if they are treated at busy, ...
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| Duration: 01:39
File Size: 1.51 MB |
| Feature: Using HIT to Reduce Pressure Ulcers
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Dr. Susan Horn discusses a new study that uses health information technology (HIT) to reduce the prevalence of pressure ulcers in long-term care facilities.
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| Duration: 07:43
File Size: 707 MB |
| Radiocast: Treating Bedsores with Information Technology
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Bedsores or Pressure ulcers are common when bed-ridden patients are not moved often enough. Information about how and when they are moved is critical to prevention.
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| Duration: 01:31
File Size: 1.40 MB |
| Feature: Health IT and Quality Improvement
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Learn more about AHRQ’s health IT initiative.
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| Duration: 01:41
File Size: 1.54 MB |
| Consumer/Quality Insider -- Personal Health Records: Part 2
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
The second of a two-part interview with AHRQ Director Dr. Carolyn Clancy discussing personal and electronic health records.
| Duration: 16:19
File Size: 14 MB |
| Consumer/Quality Insider -- Personal Health Records: Part 1
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
The first of a two-part interview with AHRQ Director Dr. Carolyn Clancy discussing personal health records.
| Duration: 10:16
File Size: 9 MB |
| Radiocast: Personal Health Records
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Health records may help consumers track their own health.
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| Duration: 02:00
File Size: 1.84 MB |
| Feature: Electronic Health Records Contracts
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
The Department of Health and Human Services awards contracts totaling $17.5 million to public-private groups to speed up the adoption of health information technology.
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| Duration: 01:19
File Size: 1.21 MB |
| Feature: Electronic Health Records Adoption
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005
A comprehensive study by the Medical Group Management Association Center for Research and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health has captured the current ...
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| Duration: 01:11
File Size: 1.08 MB |