Certified EHR and Meaningful Use
John, EMR and HIPAA
“After I wrote about the pros and cons of EHR-C, EHR-M and EHR-S certification I couldn’t help but ask why we even need EHR certification and meaningful use.
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Matthew went to Redmond, Pt 4: Nate McLemore
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“My final interview from my trip to Microsoft was with Nate McLemore, who is Director of Business Development for the Health Solutions Group and also involved in Microsoft’s policy & lobbying work. Nate talked about Microsoft’s role in the ongoing deliberations on meaningful use, ARRA and all that.”
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Process Begins To Define “Meaningful Use” Of Electronic Health Records
Medical News Today
“Building on the historic $19 billion investment provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), efforts continued today to further the national adoption and implementation of health information technology (HIT) — an essential tool to modernize the health care system and bring about improved health for all Americans.
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EHR providers seek ‘meaningful use’ relationship, long walks on beach
Eva Marie Stahl, Oh My Gov!
“It could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. If the medical community can demonstrate “meaningful use” of electronic health records, the government will throw some cash their way in the form of federal subsidies.
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Ease of patient access, privacy called central to ‘user-friendly’ EMRs
Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Dave deBronkart, the New Hampshire cancer survivor widely known as “e-Patient Dave,” blew the whistle on the inaccuracy of claims data in Google Health PHRs at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center a couple of months ago.
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Using EHRs to Make a Difference
Howard Anderson, HDM Breaking News
“Federal spending on financial incentives to providers who use comprehensive electronic health records will prove to be a waste of money unless clinicians are required to use EHRs to improve the quality of care, an executive with an organization that’s an EHR pioneer says.
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Moving PHRs from Static Repositories of Information to Dynamic, Interactive Applications
Project HealthDesign
“The work products and final report from the initial phase of Project HealthDesign are currently available for download. The report captures key learnings from the work of the program’s first nine grantee teams, as well as from its efforts to develop a common platform and explore the ethical, legal and social issues tied to next-generation personal health records (PHRs).
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Robert Wood Johnson PHR Project: PHR Privacy Inadequate
Healthcare Informatics
“Project HealthDesign, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.) funded project to develop PHR applications that extend and enhance the range of services offered by existing PHRs
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Here it comes: the thought-controlled homebased healthcare system.
Ron Otten, Mobile WellBeing
“Homeautomation is setting huge steps forward. Control with your mobile is already in place. More healthcare sensoring will be connected.
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How Twitter can strengthen the doctor-patient relationship
KevinMD.com
“Pauline Chen goes social media on us in a recent column.
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Telemedicine Helps Local Nurseries Get Experienced Specialist Assistance
MedGadget
“Today’s example of the practical use of telemedicine comes from Kentucky where clinicians are using robots equipped with monitors and video cameras to consult with neonatologists at the University of Louisville about the condition of their little patients.”
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E-Health Records Planned Despite Stimulus Uncertainty
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek
“Although a majority of healthcare providers remain skeptical about how they’ll benefit by the federal government’s $20 billion stimulus program, many plan to forge ahead anyway, according to a report released this week.
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Telestroke: delivering stroke care virtually
Raquel Billiones, Battling for Health
“We can see where health care is going. More and more procedures are automated and remote medical consultation and treatment is catching on.
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Thoughts on the New CCHIT EHR Certification Paths
John, EMR and HIPAA
“Earlier today I posted a general explanation of the various CCHIT EHR certification paths as they were talked about at today’s CCHIT town call meeting. If you haven’t read that, go read it first and then come back so you know what I’m talking about when I say EHR-C, EHR-M and EHR-S.
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The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission Totally Fails to Understand E-Health!
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“I won’t go on. This is just another opportunity missed to do a proper job of work to define the place of e-Health in overall health reform.
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Meaningful meaning?
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“The first draft of “meaningful use” came out early yesterday, and I was struck by two things. First, probably influenced by the NCVHS recommendations, the work-group included a lot of consumer-facing aspects in the concept of meaningful use.
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French hospital gets Smart
Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“More than 600 JAOtech Obie Smart Terminals, for use by clinicians and patients, have been installed at the Centre Hospitalier de la Region d’Annecy in South East France.
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Científicos españoles crean un ‘chip’ de ADN para calcular el riesgo de infartos
El País
“Científicos españoles han desarrollado un chip de ADN para precisar el riesgo cardiovascular teórico a largo plazo, según informa el Hospital del Mar de Barcelona.
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Could mobile phone technology improve healthcare in rural Uganda?
Annie Kelly, The Guardian
“In an attempt to improve healthcare in rural areas of the country, the Ugandan government is piloting a scheme that uses mobile phone technology to improve services.
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Open Source EHRs Set to Grow
Cheryl McEvoy, Advance
“On the surface, open source technology seems questionable — software engineers finagling with code and cobbling together a system that constantly evolves from countless minds. In reality, open source is a viable option for HIT, and its ability to retool and reshape rapidly may prove beneficial as new technologies and health care innovations emerge.
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