November 2008

Technology and medicine are a wonderful combination, but not if the doctor hides behind it, a real concern in a world of EMRs and handheld medical devices.

Dean Heller, MD, President of VideoMD—an online library of physician-created, patient education videos—explains the benefits to both patients and physicians of www.videomd.com.

Remember in the 1960s Star Trek series when Dr. McCoy would pass his medical tricorder over a prostrate body to discover not only which species of alien had invaded the young ensign, but also how to expel the creature with a dose of medicine?

Clifford Chirls discusses the features of the new social networking site iMedExchange and explains how it diff ers from other social networking resources for physicians.

Electronic prescribing is rapidly gaining support from a diverse array of healthcare organizations, government agencies, and technology corporations.

These three physicians decided to take the bull by the horns and start their own EHR companies.