Seth Bilazarian MD has been a Clinical and Interventional Cardiologist at Pentucket Medical Associates in Massachusetts since 1993. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology, Vascular Ultrasound, Interventional Cardiology, and Vascular and Endovascular Medicine.
Dr Bilazarian performs coronary and peripheral interventions at Lahey Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been an investigator in the interventional laboratory for new devices including drug-eluting stents, distal protection devices, imaging devices (OCT and InfraRed), and anticoagulant pharmacotherapy.
Dr Bilazarian is an active participant in clinical trials in congestive heart failure, hypertension, coronary disease prevention, prediabetes management, anemia, atrial fibrillation, and anticoagulation/antiplatelet therapies in the outpatient setting. He has authored numerous papers and book chapters in clinical cardiology. He was appointed as a physician advisor to the circulatory device panel of the FDA in 2008.
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View all posts »When an EMR feels like a computer without internet how do we share health records?
Jul 29, 2010 09:25 EDT-
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It's been several years since our practice adopted an electronic medical records (EMR) system, and while the system does work for clerical tasks, its inability to connect with hospitals and other regional academic medical centers is a tremendous source of disappointment and an impediment to optimal patient care. What are your thoughts on the electronic exchange of patient files and health data? Is your EMR blazing the trail or pulling up the rear?
See:
Fontaine P, Zink T, Boyle R et al. Health Information Exchange: Participation by Minnesota Primary Care Practices. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(7): 622-629. Available here.
Chang SW. Health Information Technology as a Tool, Not an End. Comment on "An Empirical Model to Estimate the Potential Impact of Medication Safety Alerts on Patient Safety, Health Care Utilization, and Cost in Ambulatory Care". Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(16):1474-1475. Available here.
Frank RG, Zeckhauser RJ. Health insurance exchanges--making the markets work. N Engl J Med. 2009 Sep 17;361(12):1135-7. Available here.
Rudin RS. The Litmus Test for Health Information Exchange Success: Will Small Practices Participate? Comment on "Health Information Exchange." Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(7):629-630. Available here.
Electronic medical record adoption: The worst year of my professional life!
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