September 14, 2009

CBS Sunday Morning 13Sep2009 Electronic Medical Records

September 14, 2009/ Rob Schertzer

Story from CBS Sunday Morning on 13Sept2009 discussing the importance of Electronic Medical Records in order to provide better healthcare. Actor Dennis Quaid has become a spokesperson after medical error nearly killed his babies. An EMR and bar-coding patient bracelets could have prevented this and other medical errors. My thanks to CanadianEMR for tweeting about this story. http://bit.ly/vq3pM

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5307322n&tag=api

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I started this site in 2009 to write about Glaucoma, Health IT (EMR, EHR), Technology and to host my podcast series "Talking About Glaucoma." There is a shortcut to this blog to make it easier to find http://iguy.tv/blog.

I am a glaucoma sub-specialized Ophthalmologist and have a full time clinical practice at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic of the Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, NH. I have a longtime interest in the use of technology to help in medical care as well as in Education. In addition, I was a very early adopter and developer of Electronic Medical Record systems who has lectured internationally on the topic of making the transition to EMRs in daily practice.

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