Thursday, November 18, 2010

Snippet: EHR speeds up chlamydia treatment time...if you get tested.

Recently read this...
http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/5/28/study-ehrs-speed-up-treatment-of-patients-with-chlamydia.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ihealthbeat%2FPublicHealth+%28iHB+-+Public+Health%29

So, it seems there is evidence that EHR speeds up treatment of patients with chlamydia...Great, so all folks have to do is get tested!

Unfortunately, there still aren't as many teens and young adults getting tested as there should be.

What's so tough about being tested?
What are the non-testers afraid of?
Not to intentionally quote G.I.Joe but...knowing is half the battle!
...right?

Links for those of you reading this and saying "What's EHR?"
http://www.hitechanswers.net/emr-vs-ehr-and-hie-vs-hio/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_record
http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_ehr.asp
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/electronic-health-record--ehr-.html

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