Howard Anderson, HDM Breaking News
“A key strategy for successfully rolling out an electronic health record at a group practice is providing custom training for users with different technology skills and personalities, the CEO of a practice with 235 physicians says.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“When Fallon Clinic in Worchester, Mass., narrowed its electronic health record vendor choice to two finalists, the large multi-specialty group practice asked to attend the annual user group meeting of both vendors. Those meetings were instrumental in making the final selection, recalled Larry Garber, M.D., medical director of informatics.
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PhysOrg.com
‘Many elderly adults are increasingly isolated and grapple with depression, loneliness and declines in physical health. The UAB Department of Sociology and Social Work will use a five-year, $1.9 million National Institute on Aging (NIA) grant to study the ability of computer use and social media networking to enhance the quality of life of elderly adults through online social connections and easier access to health information.”
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Joseph Goedert, Information Management Magazine
Nearly three years in the making, the Total Cancer Care Survivorship Initiative at Tampa-based Moffitt went live in late August with a patient Web portal, starting with colon cancer survivors. “The goal is to follow survivors for the rest of their lives to reduce recurrence of cancer through personalized follow-up care and lifestyle changes, and to catch any recurrences early. The program also will provide patients with a detailed summary of their care to educate them and other providers about the treatment history and any risk-related effects.
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Toronto Star
“Critics are wondering why the Ontario government has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars to create electronic health records when the province already has a computer-based system that stores health records and links more than 100 hospital sites.
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Courtney Boyd Myers, Forbes
“As Congress continues to wrangle over how to care for a growing population of elderly people, technologists are working on their own answer: robots.
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Adele Waugaman, Tech for Change
“Could a mobile phone be a key tool in the prevention of disease outbreaks and epidemics? Judges on the Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards panel believe so.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Nurses are key to the success of an electronic health records rollout at a group practice and will largely determine whether physicians will become more productive, contends Phyllis Schuck, CIO at Pinehurst (N.C.) Surgical. As a result, practices should break off nursing implementation of EHRs from other provider implementations, she says.
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Brian Ahier, Health IT & Healthcare Reform
“Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) introduced legislation that would enhance the “meaningful use” requirement to include PHRs allowing patients access to their health information.
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Susannah Fox, e-patients.net
“What would you say to policymakers who are discussing the implementation of a national health information infrastructure?
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Winslow W. Murdoch, KevinMD.com
“The Obama healthcare plan hinges on savings achieved through the implementation of electronic medical records (EMRs) and pays doctors $44,000 over 5 years for hardware and software to embrace this evolving technology. Let us not forget however, that garbage in produces garbage out, for instance, information not suitable for medical decision making.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“This year was Chilmark Research’s third AHRQ’09 event. The previous two we attend in 2007 and 2008 left us, how shall we say it… underwhelmed and really did not have much intention of attending this year. But that was before ARRA, before meaningful use, before certified EHRs, and certainly before we were asked if we would be interested in presenting and moderating a session entitled: PHRs, What are they good for?
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Bill Crounse, HealthBlog
“Last Friday, I had an opportunity to spend part of the afternoon with Dr. Don Detmer (right) during his visit to Microsoft Research. If the name isn’t familiar, Dr. Detmer is a surgeon and the immediate past president of AMIA, the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia. You can learn more about his distinguished career here.
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Ashlee Vance, The News York Times
“People with speech-impairing conditions like A.L.S., autism, Down syndrome and strokes have started to discover that general-purpose devices, equipped with downloadable text-to-speech software, can in many cases help them communicate better and more cheaply than the proprietary speech devices covered by Medicare and private health insurance.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“It seems like I’ve covered EMR updates quite a bit before. However, I keep hearing more examples that are very good illustrations of the challenges associated with software updates to an EMR.
Today’s example has to do with a simple change to the template interface on an EMR.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
‘The Premier healthcare alliance has contracted with San Antonio-based AirStrip Technologies to offer its 2,200 hospital members mobile healthcare information technology to boost obstetrical (OB) care.
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PRNewswire
“Zargis Medical Corp., a spin-off from Siemens Corporate Research (NYSE: SI) and a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp. (Nasdaq: SPDE), announced today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its new Signal X6(TM) device. Zargis also announced the delivery of seven Signal X6 devices to the U.S. Army for deployment in six Department of Defense medical facilities.
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John Halamka, Healthcare IT News
“Today, the HIT Standards Committee received the latest deliverables from its workgroups.
The Quality Workgroup presented its updated matrix of measures, data types and recommendations.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“Voice technology is the latest tool healthcare providers are adopting to cut back on time-consuming manual processes, freeing clinicians to spend more time with patients and reduce costs.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Shared Health is slated to begin rolling out in December a solution that would give Mississippi Medicaid providers a Web-based electronic health record system and e-prescribing capability.
Mississippi has nearly 600,000 Medicaid members.
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