Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Defense Department’s military health system will launch Aug. 1 an online system to support counseling and other behavioral healthcare for service members and their families. DOD’s TRICARE health system is targeting the services especially to military and eligible reserves returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Modern Medicine
“The U.S. health care system is on the verge of a new era in which distributed health data networks will assure local control of sensitive individual patient data, while providing medical researchers and policy makers access to powerful aggregate data on millions of patients, according to a pair of articles in the September 1 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Modern Medicine
“Electronic disease surveillance systems vary widely from state to state and the lack of homogeneity will raise the cost of data sharing, according to a study published in the July 31 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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MMWR Weekly
“The National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) is a web-based system that uses standard health information technology (IT) codes to integrate disease surveillance systems, enabling them to transfer public health, laboratory, and clinical data securely from health-care providers to public health departments. Each jurisdictions’ system consists of a base system and modules that can be used for specific surveillance purposes. States also use NEDSS-like or other electronic systems to conduct surveillance on specific diseases or conditions.
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Lisa Eramo, HealthLeaders Media
“Industry experts have repeatedly said that ICD-10 implementation must begin immediately in order for hospitals, health plans, and vendors to meet the October 1, 2013 compliance deadline. But now there is detailed evidence to prove it.
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Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare
“Mainly because of the HITECH Act, part of the economic stimulus legislation passed earlier this year, the U.S. is now finally heading down the road toward widespread health IT adoption and a national health information network. But the discussion about this strategy often gets bogged down in such details as what constitutes “meaningful use” of EHRs.
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Harald Deutsch, Fran Turisco, CSC
Greater availability of accurate, complete, relevant clinical data allows care providers to deliver higher quality, more efficient and cost-effective care. Studies have shown the eHealth initiatives that include electronic health record (EHR) systems connected to a health information exchange (HIE) result in reduction in redundant tests, increases administrative efficiencies, and speeds processing of referrals, prescriptions, and hospital discharges.
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John Halamka, Healthcare IT News
“At the July 21 meeting of the HIT Standards, we approved an initial set of standards for quality, clinical operations and security/privacy. We were told to refine these initial efforts by the next meeting of the Committee, August 20, so that ONC and CMS can incorporate the work into the interim final rule.
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Jeff Marion, The Health Record Review
“Let’s face it, EHR disasters are part of the lore of health information technology. Handed down by word of mouth in hushed whispers around the water-cooler, these horror stories serve as cautionary tales for those implementing new technology. In a 2007 report by the Medical Records Institute, now defunct, 19% of respondents reported having deinstalled an EHR, while 7% were currently engaged in the process.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Invoking the principle that any publicity is good publicity, it’s safe to say that EMRs finally are officially part of the broad national debate on healthcare reform, now that some of the Fox News fear mongers have jumped into the deep end of the cesspool.
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Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“Die elektronische Gesundheitskarte (eGK) hat im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes Pro-Online VSDD ihre Online-Fähigkeiten nachgewiesen. Dabei wurden Karten via Konnektor in Testpraxen mit Servern verbunden, auf denen der Versichertenstammdatendienst (VSDD) der Krankenversicherungen läuft.
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David Goldman, CNNMoney
“Creating an electronic health record for every American by 2014 is a big part of Obama’s agenda but it may be easier said than done.
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Joseph Conn, EMR Specialists
“There may soon be one more incentive for hospitals and physician offices to buy and install electronic health-record systems on or before 2011.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Soceity has deployed a new wiki to allow healthcare organizations to collaborate on realizing the full potential of clinical decision support solutions.
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Rebecca Ruiz, Forbes
“From Twitter to Second Life to Facebook, patients now have access to more health information than ever before.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews
“The American Medical Association announced that it has partnered with Allscripts to offer a free e-prescribing solution through its physician portal, which is expected to launch next year.
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Medical News Today
“IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that St. Elizabeth Healthcare is connecting hospitals, clinics and physicians offices in Northern Kentucky in the state’s largest roll-out of electronic medical records to improve patient care and lower costs.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Now there has been a lot of fussing about just what constitutes an HIE as well as the bigger issue of how do the feds insure that HIEs of one form or another are in place to support the MU criteria for information exchange.
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Jeff Marion, The Health Record Review
“Do you plan to take my medical records home with you? This might become a more popular question after the recent discovery of VA Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho’s medical records.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Although the government’s pandemic plans rely on telework to carry out their functions, several federal, state and local agencies reported little or no testing of their information technology capability, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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