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David Raths


David Raths is a Philadelphia-based freelance writer. e-mail draths@mac.com

Articles By David Raths
The Obama administration's huge funding effort to create a nationwide network of interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) has been called the biggest thing that's ever happened in health information technology...
Many state governments have 40 different learning management systems in place, with individual maintenance contracts on each, and they're not able to share content...
Anyone who has spent time in a hospital emergency department (ED) or even watched television shows about them realizes that they present a daunting knowledge management challenge...
Like most healthcare facilities, Washington Hospital Center in the nation's capital used to struggle with asset management: finding the right pieces of equipment when employees needed them. But two and a half years ago, WHC, one of the 25 largest hospitals in the country, sought to address that knowledge management problem by attaching radio frequency identification (RFID) system tags to equipment in order to track them online.
Will making data more readily accessible lead to efficiency gains and clinical improvements?
In the pharmaceutical industry, an electronic lab notebook can be more than a receptacle for documents; it can be a platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
 


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