theMobileHealthCrowd
“The State of California’s efforts to move into the age of wired health care received a shot in the arm as The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) joined with Anthem Blue Cross, Medco Health Solutions, Inc., and Blue Shield of California to launch the state’s largest electronic prescribing (e-Prescribing) initiative to date.
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jay parkinson + md + mph
“HIPAA mandates that people have unfettered access to their medical records. It’s a federal law. The argument shouldn’t be “should they have easy access?” It should be “Will the quality, accuracy, and honesty of medical records suffer or improve medical records that are visible with a simple log in?”
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I figured I’d round out my recent posts about the new CCHIT EHR certifications before moving on to meaningful use. There’s just so much to say about both issues.
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Emilio De Benito, El País
“Los tumores infantiles no son algo tan extraño. Y muchas veces ni los padres ni los niños tienen información suficiente para afrontarlo.
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Michael Painter, The Health Care Blog
“Compare that report about the State Department to the HIT Policy Committee’s recommended vision for the role of patients and families. The committee envisions that someone would eventually “provide access for all patients” to populated personal health records and some self-management tools by 2015–about six years from now.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The project, implemented in phases by the Centers for Medicare and Mediciad Services, would enable the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) to assemble oncologists from practices across the country with advanced electronic medical records for cutting edge data to supplement Medicare claims presented to CMS.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Collecting observations of daily life may be the most important features of a personal health record”, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Several very innovative healthcare applications were shown last week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2009.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Smartphones, led by the iPhone, continue their march into the heart of the mobility market.
They bring with them a host of health applications, some useful, others just silly.
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Peter Vaughan, TheStar.com
“A pan-Canadian electronic health record sounds like a no-brainer. Health is a knowledge- and service-intensive business, so information technology should be able to organize wait lists, streamline services, improve efficiency and reduce medical prescription errors.
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e-Patient Dave, e-Patients.net
“This is a new comment that appeared Wednesday night on my April 1 post about moving my data from my hospital’s system to Google Health.
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Jacob Goldstein, WSJ Health Blog
“You’re talking to your doctor, who is scribbling notes on a clipboard or typing on a keyboard. Maybe the note is something that seems a bit blunt, like “obese woman.”
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Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe
“One doctor wrote that a patient was acting paranoid. Another typed that she had ordered tests to make sure a patient didn’t have cancer.
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RedOrbit
“The U.S. healthcare system is in critical need of basic change to enable more equitable, effective, efficient care.
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Steve Nowottny, Pulse
“The RCGP has controversially thrown its weight behind the national rollout of the Summary Care Record – just days after LMC leaders called for the implied consent model to be scrapped.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“NHS Connecting for Health is to trial linking information from an advanced telehealth platform into the new EMIS Web GP system, as a possible prelude to a national roll-out, E-Health Insider has learned.
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Rashid L. Bashshur and Gary W. Shannon, Telemedicine and e-Health
This document reflects the strongly held views and perspective of a diverse group of healthcare academicians, researchers, providers, and industry representatives from across the country who share a belief in the necessity of healthcare reform and the centrality of telemedicine—or information technology-enhanced healthcare—in that reform.
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EurekAlert
“Well-designed telemedicine systems have proven value for improving access to quality healthcare, providing effective clinical decision support and medication prescribing, promoting patient-centered care through community- and home-based resources, enhancing chronic disease management, and promoting adoption of healthy lifestyle choices and self-care, and containing cost inflation. Telemedicine offers substantial benefits that greatly exceed its cost.
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Fred Pennic, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“Meaningful Use is close to being defined by the Federal Government. Physicians should not let any confusion around this term keep them on the sidelines of the HIT decision making process. Physician practices and hospitals should be acting now and determining which HIT solution is best for them. Speaker: Charlie Jarvis, Assistant Vice President, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.”
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Fred Pennic, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“With the goal of supporting more rapid, widespread adoption and meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology by physicians and hospitals eligible to receive funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has unveiled three certification approaches to replace the current single one.
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