Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending August 20:
Why one practice ditched EHR in favor of paper records
FierceHealthcare ~ Joanne Finnegan ~ 14/08/2017
The Illinois Pain Institute has done what many physicians only dream about doing. The practice, which has multiple locations in four Illinois counties, just ditched its electronic health record (EHR) and went back to paper records.
New York hospitals say telehealth helped slash ER wait times, enhance care
Healthcare IT News ~ Bill Siwicki ~ 17/08/2017
While the average emergency room wait times for low-acuity patients were up to two-and-a-half hours at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medical Center, the provider’s Telehealth Express Care service can get patients in and out in 35 minutes.
