EMR Blog
“Being tied to a paper chart to provide care and evaluate results is a time consuming process that may breed inefficiency in the long term. Paper-based ordering systems are not only time-intensive but are also known to duplicate the efforts. These loopholes in the system can be corrected by implementing computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems.
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Richard Knox, NPR
“Every time you see the doctor, he or she writes a note about the encounter for the record. Normally you never see it.
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Susannah Fox, The Health Care Blog
“If you hate HIPAA, it’s your lucky day. Paul Ohm is handing you ammunition in his article, “Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization.” His argument: our current information privacy structure is a house built on sand.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews
“Paul Roemer is in the health care technology business, but even he had a hard time dealing with what a computer screen was doing to his doctor.
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e-Patient Dave.com, 20 September 2009
“I’ve just returned from Toronto, where I gave the opening keynote at the Medicine 2.0 Congress. It was titled “Gimme My Damn Data,” which is an unconventional title for an opening address, but I meant it. Here’s why.
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Brian T. Edwards, Connected Care Blog
“More than 57 million Americans – one in four adults – have a diagnosed mental illness. Tens of millions more struggle with stress and relationship issues. Institutions such as hospitals, prisons, schools, companies, health plans, and veterans centers are overcrowded with patients needing help, but growing costs and shrinking budgets are decimating quality of care.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“On Friday last week, Chilmark Research participated in the session, “PHRs and EHRs, Should They Be Linked?” as part of the Health IT Stimulus Summit that was put on by Health Data Management. With meaningful use criteria that was approved on July 16th clearly stating that providers are to provide a PHR to their customers by 2013, we thought this question to be nonsensical.
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John Grohol, e-patients.net
“Case in point: Scott Graham. He sent an ex-girlfriend a spyware program he was hoping she’d install on her home computer so he could spy on her. (This is surprisingly more common than you might imagine.) Instead, she opened it on a computer in the hospital’s pediatric cardiac surgery department.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“Is it possible to create mashups of each of these groups such that instead of having billions of billions of permutations, we have just a few? A mash-up is a Web page or application that integrates complementary elements from two or more sources. That one sentence used up the entirety of what I know about the topic.
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Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“A federal advisory panel today heard several proposals about how to best protect patient privacy while creating and sharing electronic health records (EHRs).
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“Health information exchanges (HIE) could help ease the burden of healthcare providers by carrying out some the reporting and technical requirements for “meaningful use” of health IT, according to executives of several state exchanges at a recent conference.
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Gus G. Sentementes, The Baltimore Sun
“The Obama administration’s push to create an electronic patient record for every American has gained steam in Washington, with billions of dollars expected to be spent over the next five years.
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Apoorva, iwebble.com
“Healthcare costs are zooming through the ceiling and the imminent solution is site is ‘Robotization’. Robots are becoming part of a broader ‘telehealth’ program in which a combination of electronics and communication can let doctors examine patients remotely or enable people to stay in touch with patients confined to their homes.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“When I was writing my last post about updating your EMR software, I knew that I had to also write a post talking about the update process for an SaaS (often called hosted) EMR solution.
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Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“Aneesh Chopra is the new and first CTO of the Federal Government, and he’s also going to be the keynote speaker for the Health 2.0 Conference (Oct 6-7, register here!). I caught up with him for a quick interview yesterday where he discussed his role, Health 2.0 and the new apps.gov site. Off camera we had a great chat and Aneesh both forced me to give a brain dump on exciting companies in Health 2.0 and showed that he knows plenty about the space and has really big ambitions. I can’t say more yet, but let’s say he’s very interested in using new sources of data to improve decisions. I think that it’s great that someone so committed to making technology work for people (and not vice versa) is in such a strong position to influence Federal policy. Here’s the interview.”
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Lodewijk Bos
Blog reports on presentations at Medicine 2.0 2009 in Toronto you can find here.
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Cyn, Medicine 2.0 Congress
“Michele Giacobazzi’s talk at the afternoon Public e-health session centered on a website used to provide tailored exercise regimes to patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). The “gym” is part of a larger project titled “Project Oneself”, which is dedicated to enhancing the self-management of chronic conditions in patients as well as improving their health and quality of life.
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Charlie Smith, e-Patients.net
“Matthew Herper’s post about thalidomide treatment of Myeloma is a good example of how patients will contribute to medical knowledge in the future, and may form a cautionary tale for patients who get involved to this degree in formulating new treatment approaches.
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Advance
“The American Hospital Association (AHA), through its subsidiary, AHA Solutions Inc., has endorsed the EXTENSION HealthID, which is a secure smart card that holds individual patient data for use by the hospitals to improve the care experience.
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Advance
“A study that focuses on health care information technology and its effect on children’s health has found that children have unique needs that aren’t taken into account as the pace of technology accelerates.
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