Starting with a few dozen supporters, including health bloggers, individual physicians, startups and Microsoft, a group is seeking to firmly inject the rights of patients into the Obama administration?s multibillion-dollar drive to computerize medical records. . .

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For all who still use paper records, the Sahler store is open and ready to supply all of your charting needs.

Smead’s ColorBar color-coded labeling revolutionized the file room with a simple, flexible solution for organizing even the largest and most chaotic file rooms. ColorBar Express is Smead’s latest addition to the ColorBar suite. ColorBar Express offers a subset of ColorBar’s best-selling functionality packaged into a convenient and cost-effective ASP/Web service model that’s ideal for on-demand labeling needs or work environments with multiple locations.

Simply sign in to www.colorbarexpress.com from any computer with an Internet connection using a Windows Internet Explorer browser. Once there, you will find an easy-to-use system that allows you to design and print labels.

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The report is made up of a conversation between reporter Ray Saurez, a Veteran’s care advocate, and two physicians. It covers a number of concerns about the current system and concerns about what might occur with the creation of a system that would create a single health record for a patient that contains his or her entire record as posted by all providers who have provided care.

One of the physicians is Dr. Deborah Peel. She is involved in a group concerned with Patient Privacy Rights

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 22, 2007; Page A01

Seattle pediatrician Rupin Thakkar’s first inkling that the pharmaceutical industry was peering over his shoulder and into his prescription pad came in a letter from a drug representative about the generic drops Thakkar prescribes to treat infectious pinkeye.

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FOR 20 years, I practiced pediatric medicine with a paper chart. I would sit with my young patients and their families, chart in my lap, making eye contact and listening to their stories. I could take patients’ histories in the order they wanted to tell them or as I wanted to ask. I could draw pictures of birthmarks, rashes or injuries. I loved how patients could participate in their own charts - illustrating their cognitive development as they went from showing me how they could draw a line at age 2 and a circle at 3 to proudly writing their names at 5.

Many care givers are being pushed to use the computer. It appears easier to handle than the typical medical chart, a manila folder with metal prong fasteners holding an unwieldy stack of paper with typed or hand written progress notes intermixed with lab reports, correspondence from consultants, hospital visit records, and other information especially important to the specialty of the practice and the specific health issues of the patient.

We have worked with medical practices and institutions to provide the components of patient charts that are easy to use because the pages of data are separated into sections by type. The dividers have plastic reinforced tabs printed with the subject of the section (progress, x-ray, lab, corr., etc). The effect is instant access to the desired information. Please stop by our store. It lists a broad range of chart supplies. If you don’t find exactly what you want, call or write to discuss your application. We will supply any Smead Manufacturing product and design and make custom products that will solve your problem.

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“In his press conference Monday night, President Obama went out of his way to explain why that money belonged in the economic stimulus package. It is, he said, a job-creating investment in both the present and the future that will improve the quality of care and save lives.

“But in a letter delivered Tuesday to the White House and Congressional offices, 50 of the nation?s leading experts in electronic health records ? most of them physicians themselves warned that ?an historic opportunity to achieve quality and efficiency gains through health information technology will be lost, unless the government channels the spending carefully.

Sahler sells all of the components required for the most effective patient charting systems. That includes folders, labels, index dividers to sort contents by subjects, software to print strip labels with color coding that matches any single label system and offers the option of? bar code printing. Also available are chart tracking systems and equipment to automatically build the chain of custody record that is part of the HIPAA program. Write us at info@sahler.com or call 800.642.1052 and, please, leave a message if we are closed or otherwise miss your call. We will get back to you just as soon as we can.

“A portion of the?$818 billion stimulus bill that was passed this week by the U.S. House calls for computerizing all health records in five years, but the legislation also contains stringent privacy and security controls to protect this online data.” Read more.

“Experts?said these measures would?complement the?Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?(HIPAA), approved in 1996,?by bringing privacy and security regulations more in line with the digital age. That’s an important move, considering the digitization of health records is likely to spur?increased attempts at malicious intrusion.”? Read the whole article here.

Sahler sells all of the components required for the most effective patient charting systems. That includes folders, labels, index dividers to sort contents by subjects, software to print strip labels with color coding that matches any single label system and offers the option of? bar code printing. Also available are chart tracking systems and equipment to automatically build the chain of custody record that is part of the HIPAA program. Write us at info@sahler.com or call 800.642.1052 and, please, leave a message if we are closed or otherwise miss your call. We will get back to you just as soon as we can.