Jessica Zigmond, Modern Healthcare
“Continued disaster-planning drills, improved communication among federal, state and local providers, and the use of electronic health records are some best practices that could help seniors during disasters, experts told lawmakers at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Google Health has announced that it will endorse an industry-wide Declaration of Health Data, an initiative launched by HealthDataRights.org seeking rights for patients regarding their health data.
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Rebecca Vesely, Modern Healthcare
“Physicians failed to tell patients that they had an abnormal test result in one out of 14 cases, and electronic health records (referred to as electronic medical records in this study) can make the failure rate worse, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Kimberly Ashton, Massachusetts Medical Law Report
“Although Massachusetts has a head start on the national effort to digitize medical records, much work remains to be done before the state can meet President Barack Obama’s goal of having all health documents computerized by 2015.
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NewSrilanka
“Suggesting a novel idea for marketing the concept, sub-titled ‘a patient centric e-health solution’ the minister said: “Let the private hospitals implement this concept. Then the people will tell us ‘Give us this facility which the private hospitals have’” .
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Fred Pennic, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“Part II of panel of prominent experts with experience in industry, government, academia, and medicine seek to define a vision for digital healthcare.
A panel of prominent experts with experience in industry, government, academia, and medicine seek to define a vision for digital healthcare.”
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Aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Y digo grandilocuente porque aunque como iniciativa no está mal, en el ejemplo de España, estas garantías ya existen y están recogidas en los derechos constitucionales de cualquier ciudadano.
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ehrsteve, EHR Scope Blog
“Open source healthcare IT solutions have been gaining popularity with the federal government ever since Democratic Representative from California, Pete Stark promoted open source as a low-cost and viable approach to EHRs in a proposed bill back in September.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“As I first looked over the meaningful use matrix (PDF) that was created by the HIT policy committee I thought that the requirements listed were reasonable and doable. Then, I realized that I was only looking at the first page of a seven page document.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The state of Arizona and the Phoenix area have experienced a high adoption rate for electronic medical records, but this has been followed by a “deinstallation” of the technology, according a report by HealthLeaders-InterStudy.
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“Why does it seem like so many physicians have embraced the iPhone, but only 15 percent of them are using some form of electronic health record EHR technology?
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Fred Pennic, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“A panel of prominent experts with experience in industry, government, academia, and medicine seek to define a vision for digital healthcare.”
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Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“John Moore, who blogs over at Chilmark Research, always presents EMR and PHR issues with great clarity and knowledge. He recently attended the Microsoft Connected Health Conference and posted a blog note about some of the impressions that he gained there (see: The Borg Lives in Healthcare).
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Alan Dappen, Better Health
“For 18 years, primary care providers steadily have been eclipsed by “specialists.” It is no longer rare to hear calls for these competent generalists to drive straight to the scrap heap in order to be refitted as procedural, money-making Humvees.
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Healthcare Technology News
“7.1% of patients are not notified of abnormal outpatient test results (or the notification is not documented) affecting 1 in 14 patients, with failure rates ranging as high as 1 in 4 patients in some practices.
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Garrett Zehr, The Tyee
“As top bosses at eHealth Ontario resign amidst a spending scandal, rights watchdogs are warning that B.C.’s own electronic health records system is threatening what some people value more than the public purse — their privacy.
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eHealthServer
“GE has announced, as part of its healthymagination initiative to increase access to technology and reduce cost, the launch of a new program, Stimulus Simplicity, which offers doctors and hospitals an easier path to electronic medical records (EMR) adoption.
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Aliya Sternstein, NextGov
“As the Obama administration seeks to determine who uses electronic health records and for what purposes, some health information technology specialists say it is critical that the public provide feedback on the issue. They note it could dictate how billions of economic stimulus dollars are spent.
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Lygeia Ricciardi, Project HealthDesign Blog
“A Declaration of Health Data Rights posted yesterday night has gained significant attention from traditional media and the Web 2.0 world.
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Scott Shreeve, Crossover Healthcare
“I was just referred this article which I found to be thoughtfully crafted. Abraham Verghese is a Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University.
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