Progress Report Dutch EHR
Dutch Ministry of Health
Since the announcement by Health Minister Ab Klink on 1 November 2008, 438.000 opt-out requests have been received till mid March 2009.
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Articles
Doctors Raise Doubts on Digital Health Data
Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“Now that the federal government plans to spend $19 billion to spur the use of computerized patient records, the challenge of adopting the technology widely and wisely is becoming increasingly apparent.
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Hospital Use of EHRs Is In Nascent Stage
Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare
“The first comprehensive survey of its kind, to be published March 26 in The New England Journal of Medicine, has found that hospitals’ use of electronic health records is very limited.
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Electronic Medical Records? Yeah, Not So Much
John Grohol, e-Patients.net
“So with all this talk about healthcare technologies and the new budget and Health 2.0, you’d think that electronic medical records (EMRs) were on the rise. Perhaps they are, but as the Associated Press reports, fewer than 2 percent of providers have completely abandoned paper charts.
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A Research Agenda for Participatory Medicine and the Connected Medical Home
David C. Kibbe, Joseph Kvedar, The Health Care Blog
“Recently, in a blog post published December 22, 2008 in The Health Care Blog entitled “The Connected Medical Home,” we described the synergy between the efforts of proponents of Participatory Medicine and the Medical Home.Â
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Few U.S. hospitals have electronic medical records
Reuters
“Less than 2 percent of U.S. hospitals have adopted fully functional electronic medical records, with most citing cost as the biggest barrier, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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Hospitals’ Electronic Wasteland
Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Less than 2 percent of U.S. hospitals today use comprehensive electronic health records, according to a new survey of 3,000 hospitals that highlights just how far the health-care system has to go to meet President Obama’s goal of providing every American with access to electronic records by 2014.
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ACPE Survey Reports a Dramatic Increase in Health IT Utilization
Dr. Joseph Kim, Medicine and Technology
“The title says it all. According to a recent survey conducted among ACPE members, the use of health IT has doubled compared to five years ago.
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The meaning of “meaningful use”
David E. Williams, Health Business Blog
“Under the HITECH part of the Federal stimulus package, physicians and hospitals will have the opportunity to earn close to $20 billion of bonus payments starting in 2011 for “meaningful use” of “certified” EHR systems. Those terms will need to be defined soon for providers to invest with confidence.
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Electronic Health Records: What’s Taking So Long?
Jeffrey Kluger, Time
“Prescription pads, clipboards and patient charts are so 20th century. In the era of CT scans, gene-splicing and stem-cell breakthroughs, handwritten record-keeping feels about as outmoded as the fluoroscope.
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Electronic Medical Record Change Not Easy
NPR
“President Barack Obama is making a major push for electronic medical records. But in a new study, Dr. Ashish Jha of Harvard University’s School of Public Health finds 90 percent of the hospitals he surveyed have no electronic records.
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Study: HIT Adoption Barely There
Healthcare Informatics
“Less than 2 percent of 3,000 hospitals surveyed have full health information technology systems in place, while about 8 percent use a basic EHR in at least one care unit
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Questioning why health care IT manufacturers aren’t liable for product-related medical errors
Marc Kaplan, EurekAlert!
“Even when their products are implicated in harm to patients, manufacturers of healthcare information technology (HIT) currently enjoy wide contractual and legal protection that renders them virtually “liability-free,” writes Ross Koppel, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in the March 25th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Microsoft: HealthVault to connect via ANT+
Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“Microsoft recently announced that HealthVault will soon be connected to some ANT+ wireless devices.
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New study shows few hospitals have comprehensive EHRs
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Less than 2 percent of U.S. hospitals have enough healthcare information technology systems in place to improve how they deliver care, according to a study in the March 26 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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A Journey of a Real E-patient
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“Yesterday, I attended the Health 2.0 event in Nijmegen and saw the presentation of Maarten Lens-FitzGerald who I wrote about a few months ago. His story is more than fascinating.
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EHR Decisions Podcast #2: ARRA and CCHIT
EHR Decisions
“Join Kris Rebillot as she talks with Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, Chair of CCHIT about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and its impact on CCHIT and certified EHR.
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Information Therapy and PHR
John, EMR and HIPAA
“I recently came across an interesting term that I’d never heard of: Information Therapy.
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Europe poised for exponential growth in digitized medical imaging storage space
Sam Collins, Healthcare IT News EU
“Medical images are increasingly becoming digitized. However, the exponential growth of digitized medical images poses an immense challenge in terms of management, compression and retrieval.
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Observations 25 March 2009
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“I am absolutely in favour of the ownership position of the patient and the management possibility. But the fact that I own and maintain my house does not necessarily mean that I built it.
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