PR-Inside is reporting that Aetnahealth is working with the Illinois State Medical Society to offer its on demand practice management services to members.

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Consult different authorities and you’ll get varying estimates of the rate of adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), ranging from 60 percent down to less than five percent. Although a large part of this is due to the discrepancy between implementations of in-patient (acute) and out-patient (ambulatory) systems, a bigger reason is that EMRs themselves encompass such a broad range of varying functionality. Read more...

Dr. Paul M. Wolf vividly remembers the day the woman came into the emergency room of the hospital where he was serving his residency. She had a severe rash that was getting progressively worse in front of his eyes. “Clearly, we didn’t have time to mess around,” says Wolf, an internist who has a solo practice in Austin. He thought there was a chance that it was Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS), an extremely serious and frequently fatal illness in which cell death causes separation of the epidermis from the dermis. Read more...