Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“The Information Commissioner has written to the permanent secretary of the Department of Health demanding immediate improvements to the lax treatment of personal data within the NHS.
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Alice Lipowicz, FCW
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is testing an online template for an electronic personal health record that will be tested with consumers through October, according to an announcement.
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Doug Nadvornick, OPB News
“Who do you think owns your medical file?
Hospitals and doctors’ offices are traditionally the keepers of personal medical records in the U.S. But now there’s a movement to give people more access to their own medical information.
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NEHI
“The current prognosis of primary care in the United States is dire; the American College of Physicians warns of an “impending collapse of primary care” and The New York Times has declared a “crisis of care on the front line of health.” As with any complex condition, there is no single cause of, nor solution to, all of primary care’s ills.
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Howard Anderson, Health Data Management
“A new report on improving the quality and availability of primary care calls for broader use of information technology and adoption of the medical home model.
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Daniel Castro, Internet Evolution
“A recent article in The Washington Post has called into question the role of the private sector in setting standards for electronic health record (EHR) systems. Specifically, the article questions the appropriateness of allowing a group that originally pushed for stimulus funds to now have an oversight role in how those funds are spent.
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Martin Ross
“Everything you need to know about the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Recovery (HITECH) Act in under four minutes. Presented by the American College for Medical Informatimusicology and performed by the Dr. HITECH Trio. Written, Produced, Recorded and Edited by Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA, FACMI.”
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Nancy Shute, The Charlotte Observer
“We’ll all soon have electronic medical records, given the $19 billion tagged for a big rollout of the long-touted paperless systems in the economic stimulus plan. Health care experts say EMRs will make medicine safer, more efficient, and more cost effective, and three quarters of the public say they’re all for it.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“There’s a lot of buzz out there in the blogosphere about the next steps on health information technology (HIT) standards. Certainly, the recommendations of HHS’s new HIT Standards Committee to its new HIT Policy Committee clearly will inform how HHS implements the HIT provisions of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The Cyber Secure Institute, an analysis and advocacy institute for effective cyber security, has released recommendations for safeguarding heath data in the wake of recent breaches.
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Mario Gibbels, ICTZorg
“Het is opvallend stil bij het ministerie van VWS. De discussie over het landelijk EPD is weer in alle hevigheid los gebarsten, maar VWS geeft geen kick.
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Fred Trotter
“Sean Nolan has announced that Microsoft has placed the HealthVault API specification, under the Microsoft Community Promise (CP) at the time of the writing, this page has not been updated to list the HealthVault API, but the text is provided in the specification download. This may allow for FOSS implementations of HealthVault.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“The best the NHHRC document should be seen as is a discussion starter that needs to be moulded carefully on the basis of all the feedback provided here into a sensible proposal.
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Mark Leavitt, The Health Care Blog
“The Stimulus bill catapulted health IT – previously the domain of clinicians with a passion for applying technology to improve healthcare – onto the national stage. When you inject billions of taxpayer dollars, politics inevitably comes with it. There have been valid observations that CCHIT’s approach needs to change in this new world, and I wholeheartedly agree.
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e-Health Insider
“St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has begun roll-out of a electronic patient record based on a scan-on-demand document management system.
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Teresa Smith, Ottawa Citizen
“Procedures for alerting patients who may have been affected by an error at a health-care facility need to be changed, according to a study by researchers at Cancer Care Ontario and the University of Toronto.
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Owen Bowcott, The Guardian
“NHS patients will be allowed to delete electronic summaries of their treatment records from a new national medical database, the Guardian has learned.
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ScienceDaily
“Type 1 diabetes is the most common chronic childhood disease. The management of this serious medical condition includes regular fingerstick glucose measurements, multiple daily injections of insulin, and frequent insulin dose adjustments.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“It was my intention to write an observation today on something remarkable which I already mentioned a couple of months ago:
“do these studies really have any value at all, looking at the numbers involved?”.
The reason why I come back to this is because of a publication in Health Data Management, published 1 June, by Howard Anderson, “Survey Shows Americans Want EHRS”.
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Ärzte Zeitung
“Wie schon bei den Ärztetagen 2007 und 2008 in Münster und Ulm lehnten die Delegierten die E-Card in der derzeitigen Konzeption ab.
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