Usability Guidance for EHRs and Personal Health Records
The Healthcare IT Guy
“My last posting on healthcare IT application UI complexity was quite popular and got many comments both online and via email (thanks everyone).
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Articles
IT benefits are yet to be fully realized
William Stead, The Tennessean
“President Obama pledges $50 billion over five years to achieve the goal of electronic health records for every American by 2014.
Will electronic health records reduce the cost of health care? RAND Corp. estimated potential savings of $81 billion per year.
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Do We Really Need an EMR Bureaucracy?
MedGadget
“As the Federal stimulus bill is winding its way through the Washington sausage factory, some details of the thousands of individual new spending programs manage to get attention from the press. It seems like we’ll be getting a “National Coordinator of Health Information Technology” as part of the stimulus.
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February Man of the Month: Missy Krasner interviews Matthew Holt of Health2.0 and The Health Care Blog
Missy Krasner, Disruptive Women in Health Care
“Today, Google’s Missy Krasner, a founding Disruptive Women in Health Care blogger, interviews Matthew Holt, Co-Founder (along with Indu Subaiya) of Health 2.0.
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Medical Records Hit The Road
theMobileHealthCrowd
“Roadside Medical Clinic + Lab selected TeleMedExperts and their network of medical providers to launch Roadside Medical Clinic + Lab’s national franchise and licensing network of medical clinics located at Pilot Travel Centers. Roadside Medical Clinic + Lab has also chosen TeleMedExperts as their exclusive provider of customized electronic medical health records technology equipping each of the Roadside Medical Clinics and providing over the road drivers with a travelling health record.
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Belize health information goes digital
Janelle Chanona, Bull World Health Organ 2009
“Perched on the Caribbean coast and as ethnically and culturally diverse as it is geographically, Belize has launched a cutting-edge web-based health information system. The Belize Health Information System (BHIS), which was inaugurated on 16 September 2008, links the Ministry of Health with the country’s public and private hospitals, laboratories and clinics.
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Analysis: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Ignacio Valdes, LinuxMedNews
“After reading the parts of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that relate to health IT, here are my conclusions: 1) More of the same.
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eHealth in Action Good Practice in European Countries
European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, ICT for Health Unit
“Good eHealth – Exchange of Good Practices in eHealth – is a three-year study (2006-2008) funded under the former Modinis programme by the Directorate-General Information Society and Media.
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EMRConsultant.com’s Analysis of the Current Environment Concerning Promoting the Nationwide Adoption of an Interconnected Electronic Health Record Network
Erik S. Fishman, EMRBlog
“While the United States spends more money per citizen on its healthcare than any other country, and while its physicians are extraordinarily well trained and capable, it is widely acknowledged that the quality of the healthcare provided in the United States is inferior to that of many other countries.
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Electronic Medical Records Would Help Canadian Cancer Patients
Jay Byers, EMR Services of Canada Blog
“Many Canadians with cancer have yet to benefit from advances in electronic information technology that could improve how their disease is treated and managed, the Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada says in its annual report card.
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How do you select the right EHR for your practice or facility?
Deborah Leyva, Healthcare & Technology
“Excellent points made by Health Care Tracker, about problems associated with implementation of EHRs, particularly the one about education and getting support of the healthcare team.
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Regional Health IT Extension Centers
John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“In an editorial I wrote this week for Health Affairs (to be published in the March IT issue), I emphasized the need for Regional Health IT Extension Centers
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Electronic Health Record Advances Patient-Centered Cancer Care
PRNewswire
“CTCA at Western Regional Medical Center (Western) extends the comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) system launched by CTCA last year.
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EMIS SCR compliant by April
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“EMIS is expected to become compliant with the Summary Care Record by the end of April, freeing the way for the full roll-out of the SCR in England.
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Online Personal Health Records: The Debate
Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University
“Dr. Tom Horan of Claremont Graduate University discusses technology surrounding personal health records.”
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Achieving Meaningful EHR Use: Leveraging Community Structures
Farzad Mostashari and Micky Tripathi, iHealthBeat
“Widespread use of interoperable electronic health records is necessary for transforming how health care is delivered and will be a key enabler of health care reform.
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Reason that organizations should not implement the Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Care Trackers Blog
“If there were a big red STOP button inside a facility sometimes I would push it. We have all seen the EASY button from Staples office supply stores well implementing and EHR is not easy.
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The Future of Human Health: Video
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“My favourite medical tech blog, Medgadget.com, presented this great series of videos.”
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Case Study – The Danger of Not Using an EMR
Alan Brookstone, CanadianEMR
“The following was sent to me by a colleague who uses an EMR. The incident description has been modified, but is based on a real situation.
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Electronic Health Records: How to Spend the Money Wisely
Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“So it looks as if the nation’s taxpayers are going to spend about $20 billion to accelerate the use of computerized medical records.
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