Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“The Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII) is gearing up for the next level of work with its sights set on statewide implementation, after celebrating the success of its pilot at its annual meeting in July.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is expanding its PatientKeeper platform to improve capacity for its health information exchange.
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Linda S. Crawford, Legal Technology
“A friend recently came to me with a concern. Her former OB/Gyn had approached her with a request to be a friend on Facebook. It was a request that made my acquaintance uncomfortable because she felt that the relationship with her doctor had been a professional one, not a friendship.
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Karen Dearne, AustralianIT
“The business case prepared to kickstart a national e-health record rollout warns of the growing cost of inaction, but almost a year after completion the document still awaits the attention of the Council of Australian Governments.
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Donald Spencer, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“My experience as a rookie volunteer on the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology’s new Clinical Research Workgroup has been surprisingly positive. I applied for this position because I wanted to get more involved in the national IT scene at an exciting time for clinical informatics. So far, I haven’t been disappointed.
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Charles Webster, Electronic Health Record Workflow Management Systems
“Our new EncounterPRO Pediatric EMR Workflow System product website is unusual in an unusually large number of ways: many more words (half as many as a typical nonfiction trade book, which it could conceivably turn into); more extensive but usable navigation structure; larger font, hyperlinks, and buttons; considerable white space; large capitalized regularly-spaced headlines; no pull-down menus; glossary for technical terms; text-relevant illustrations (no stock photography); forward and backward hyperlinks; internal page navigation; fat footers; children’s artwork; etc.
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Ruthann Russo, Disruptive Women in Health Care
“Sam, a 70 year old healthy man, sat on the table in his urologist’s office for his one year follow up visit. Twelve months prior to this visit, Sam had bladder stones and an enlarged prostate. Dr. Rosenthal, his urologist, removed the stones and some prostate tissue during a hospital-based outpatient surgery.
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Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog
“You want an easy way to explain electronic health records to someone not familiar with the concept? The Forbes.com Video Network–something I never new existed until an hour ago–has this relatively simple, 4-minute primer.”
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eHealthNews.EU
“A new solution from Ubisys will make it easier for NHS staff to update Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) shared by local NHS providers such as hospitals and GPs. Ubisys is integrating Anoto’s Digital Pen and Paper technology with SystmOne, the most widely used primary care database within the NHS National Programme for IT.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Federal Trade Commission has released a final rule requiring vendors of personal health records–and entities that offer third-party PHRs–to notify consumers when the security of their PHR data is breached. Despite efforts of the FTC and the Department of Health and Human Services to harmonize separate rules governing notification of breaches, the FTC rule takes confusion to a new level and will require considerable study.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Vanguard Health Systems has become the tenth company to join the Dossia Consortium, which is a non-profit organization made up of U.S. employers that seek to empower their employees to make smarter, more informed healthcare decisions by providing them with access to their healthcare data through what the consortium calls a personally-controlled health record (PCHR).
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Ken Congdon, ECM Connection
“In my coverage of the healthcare technology industry, I’ve noticed that many software and hardware vendors, clinicians, and even some analysts tend to use the terms EMR (electronic medical record) and EHR (electronic health record) interchangeably.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Health insurer UnitedHealthcare has teamed with delivery system Centura Health to launch telemedicine programs in rural areas of Colorado.
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4VF News
“Greenberg is able to monitor his patients daily, thanks to a device billed as the world’s first wireless pacemaker. The pacemaker communicates with a monitoring system in the patient’s home, vital information is then gathered and automatically relayed to Greenberg’s office. Greenberg became the first doctor to implant the pacemaker in an operation which happened in the U.S. last month.
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EMR Daily News
“Medicity, Inc. announced today that El Camino Hospital has gone live – in only 60 days – with the first phase of a health information exchange (HIE) initiative that establishes a secure foundation for the free-flow of health information among healthcare providers in the Silicon Valley.
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“Although the stated intent of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was economic stimulus, we’ve seen a paradoxical deceleration in health IT investment since then. Why the slowdown?
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CIOL
“The Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) and the Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council (CBHC) have selected Qwest Communications to provide high-speed broadband services that will link nearly 400 of the state’s urban and rural health care and behavioral health providers, and facilitate telemedicine access.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“No, that question is not a joke in the vein of “How many fill-in-the-blanks-here does it take to change a light bulb.” The answer, which will evolve in the next several months, will determine if the certification process’ trustworthiness is worth the increased complexity with the addition of more bodies.
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David C. Kibbe and Brian Klepper, The Health Care Blog, 17 August 2009
“Americans are generally skeptical of words that otherwise intelligent and articulate people can’t pronounce. “Interoperability,” like nu-cu-lar, is one of these. After a while, these words can take on a mystique all their own.
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EMR Daily News
“RevenueXL, a leading Certified Electronic Medical Records Software solutions consulting company for Physicians and Clinics announced today the release of their ‘essential reference’ EMR feature guide for Physicians first ever publicly published – Top 10 Electronic Medical Record Software Features for every Physician.
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