Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post
“The Senate and House appear headed for a clash over competing visions of how to protect the privacy of patients’ electronic medical records, with the House favoring strict protections advocated by consumer groups while the Senate is poised to endorse more limited safeguards urged by business interests.
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EMR and HIPAA
“I recently read a really interesting and informative article called “Five Reasons Why EHR Implementations Fail.” My only problem with this post is that it focuses too much on the negative.
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Jay Byers, EMR Services of Canada Blog
“Eva Olweean talks about the sensors in her room that helped diagnose a potential congestive heart failure at the Tiger Place nursing home Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, in Columbia, Mo. Tiny sensors hover unobtrusively over the toilet, shower and doorways to detect Olweean’s movements inside her apartment.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Today, the chairs of CCHIT, HITSP, and NeHC (AHIC Successor) issued a joint statement of their commitment to work together on the healthcare IT work ahead.
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Richard L. Reece, Medinnovationblog
“I have been asked to comment on an article in the Archives of Internal Medicine supported by a grant from the Commonwealth Fund, and the Fund’s response to the article.
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EurekAlert
“Computer-based systems that allow clinicians to prescribe drugs electronically are designed to automatically warn of potential medication errors, but a new study reveals clinicians often override the alerts and rely instead on their own judgment.
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IHF
“The Institute for Health Freedom (IHF) warns that the economic stimulus bill mandates the federal government to plan for electronic health records for every citizen without providing for opt-out or patient consent provisions.
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e-Health Europe
“Aerotel Medical Systems, a specialist in mobile and home-based telemedicine and telecare solutions, has partnered with GEBOA SA, to launch Aerotel’s GeoSKeeper GPS personal location system in Switzerland.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Stoke on Trent has kicked off the national roll-out of the Summary Care Record, while another primary care trust has ditched controversial plans to obtain details of patients who have already opted-out of the SCR.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The market for bringing healthcare data from disparate sources into one view is growing by leaps, according to a new study from KLAS, a healthcare research firm based in Orem, Utah. The study notes that software giant Microsoft is rapidly expanding its footprint in what KLAS calls an emerging aggregation market.
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EMR and HIPAA
“One of the key facets of any EHR investment by the government will look at ways to award money for usage of an EHR. The hard question they’ll try to answer is how do you define an EHR that’s implemented.
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Trevor Cradduck, Telehealth Canada
“Some heart failure patients who live in the Greater Victoria area are now able to manage their health care in just a few minutes a day, from the comfort of their own homes, with the help of Telehomecare – an in-home monitoring system being launched by the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA).
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Health Care Trackers Blog
“One of the advantages of implementing an electronic health record is this staggering number of 98,000 Americans could be decreased to a lower number if we had a different process in place.
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Jilian Mincer, The Wall Street Journal
“President Obama has proposed spending about $20 billion in the economic-stimulus bill to computerize medical records within five years.
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J.D. Tuccille, The Examiner
“Have you ever taken any prescription drugs I should know about? Let me rephrase that.
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AHRQ
“Prescribing errors are the most common medication errors in primary care practices.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“Before the rollout an all-electronic health records (EHR) system about a year ago, only about half of the doctors and nurses in West Virginia’s state hospitals were familiar with medical computer systems. So when technology rolled in, staffers pushed back.
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Knack
“Vergeleken met systemen in het buitenland is het Belgische e-Health-platform erg goedkoop. Het prijskaartje bedraagt over vijf jaar slechts 80 miljoen euro.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that electronic medical records can be used to test drug efficacy.
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