A depressive disorder is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts and interferes with daily life, normal functioning, and causes pain. According to the Stanford School of Medicine, over 9 million American adults suffer from clinical depression each year....
Electronic health records (EHR) is a patient centric information resource for physicians that represent a major domain of health information technology (HIT). The EHR system facilitates improved communication between healthcare providers; promotes patient safety...
Telemedicine has just got a boost with the American Medical Association (AMA) approving a list of the guiding principles presented at its Annual Meeting held from June 7-11, 2014. A component of telehealth, telemedicine generally refers to the provision of...
If you refer to the ICD-10 manual, you will find that the 14,000 ICD-9 codes have exploded into around 68,000 ICD-10 codes. Though the increase in the number of medical codes is bound to make the medical coding process more accurate, some consider the specificity of...
The IMS Institute of Healthcare Informatics released a report in 2013 entitled ‘Medicine Use and Shifting Costs of Healthcare: A Review of the Use of Medicines in the United States in 2013′ that found an increase in the overall use of healthcare services...
