Meaningful EHR Use Timeline
EMR and HIPAA
“I saw a link go across my Twitter feed called “The Meaningful Use Timeline.” The title of course was interesting and so I had to check it out.
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Articles
Twitter, YouTube, Other Social Media Tools Becoming Popular in Medical World
iHealthBeat
“Social networking tools — such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter — are moving into the medical world.
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Who will control the coming health IT standards?
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Do we want industry writing the nation’s health IT standards? CCHIT’s “standards” are, in fact, mainly approvals of whatever industry is doing.
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Physician HIE Live in Texas
Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“A health information exchange sponsored by a 600-physician independent practice association serving members in the Tarrant County region of northern Texas recently went live.
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Electronic health records transform veterans’ medical care
Karen Hohnecker, Oh My Gov!
“Despite vocal complaints by some veterans caught in bureaucratic red tape, the reality is that hospitals within the Veterans Health Administration system are safer, more efficient and more technologically advanced than their counterparts in the private sector.
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A Call For Congressional Investigation Of The HIT Industry – Is This Industry Trying to Kill People? Part 5 of a Series
MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“I am using part 5 to present another issue: A call for major investigation of HIT device industry.
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Doctors Make Painful Switch To Electronic Records
WSJ Health Blog
“Andy Jordan, on his cross-country American Journey in search of stimulus-related jobs and opportunities, meets a doctor in Cambridge, Ohio, who has made the painful and expensive switch from paper to electronic record-keeping.”
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Hospitals look to smart technology for EMRs
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Capella Healthcare, the Memorial Hermann Hospital System, Trillium Health Centre and Vanderbilt University Medical Center are all turning to smart technology for their electronic medical records.
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Don Kemper relates EMRs to dissapointing dogs
Don Kemper, CEO Healthwise
Don Kemper, CEO Healthwise, on the influence of HIT on the physician-patient interaction.
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What the HITECH Act Means to Physicians
EMRBlog
“On February 17, 2009 the Economic Stimulus Bill also known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 was finalized and signed by President Obama.
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From Dictation to Direct Computer Input
Nick van Terheyden, Accelerating Adoption of Healthcare IT
“I hosted a panel at the recent TEPR conference on “From Dictation to Direct Computer Input” that included presentations from Laura Bryan (MedEDocs Transcription) and Louis Cornacchia, MD, of (Doctations).
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Are Health IT Designers, Testers and Purchasers Trying to Kill People? Part 4 of a Series
MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“Electronic health records, or electronic death records?
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HIMSS Analytics: 42 hospitals reach EHR Stage 6
Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog
“HIMSS Analytics has announced the latest list of hospitals to reach “Stage 6″ of EHR implementation, and for 2008, 42 hospitals in 24 organizations make the cut. That is only 0.5 percent of all non-federal hospitals in the U.S., up from 0.3 a year earlier.
Additionally, 0.3 percent of hospitals achieved Stage 7, the highest level of the scale, but HIMSS Analytics has not made those names public. All those in Stage 6 or 7 will be honored at an April 6 awards ceremony.
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Experts: Standards Key to Success of Federal Health IT Investment
iHealthBeat
“The development of technology standards is the key to the success of the economic stimulus package’s $19 billion investment in health IT, according to health care information experts, NextGov.com reports.
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HITECH Basically Excludes Open Source EHR If They Select CCHIT
EMR and HIPAA
“My point is that I believe in open source can do and I think it could have a major impact in health care. In fact, I sincerely hope that it will have an impact.
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Dutch and British doctors lead in information technology while Canada and the US slow to adopt it, study shows
Janice Hopkins Tanne, BMJ 2009;338:b827
“Doctors in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are leaders in using health information technology.
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Canadian & US Doctors Low use of EMR Linked to Limited Ability to Deal with Adverse Events
Alan Brookstone, CanadianEMR
“In a review of the 2006 Commonwealth Fund survey data clearer evidence emerges that use of Electronic Medical Records is linked to patient safety and ability to deal with adverse events.
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Consumers Need All of the Facts in the Privacy Debate
David St. Clair, The Health Care Blog
“The economic stimulus package that President Obama has signed contains upwards of $20 billion to create electronic health records for most Americans within five years.
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VoiceIt: “Health IT is as important as water or electricity”
HealthTech Wire
“The Nordic countries have a reputation for being among Europe’s avant-garde in the field of digital healthcare solutions.
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More Evidence for Information Therapy
Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“A new study confirms the importance of proactive delivery of information therapy (Ix) to consumers in order to improve early detection of cancer.
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