Bruce Merlin Fried, iHealthBeat
“Many involved in the world of health IT know that federal regulation is part of the deal. Issues of health information privacy have been subject to an array of federal and state laws for decades.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“Mining electronic patient data to discover health trends and automate life-saving health alerts for patients and their doctors will be the greatest benefit of electronic medical records (EMR), but a survey released today finds a lack of standards, privacy concerns by hospitals and patients and technology limitations is holding back progress.
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KevinMD.com
“Advanced electronic systems that alert physicians when outpatients receive critical abnormal test results do not appear to reduce the rate at which these results are overlooked, according to research published in the latest issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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ICTzorg
“Charles Race, Vice President Northern Europe Sales bij Informatica, stelt dat de kwaliteit van de medische gegevens in gevaar komt door het groot aantal systemen waarmee in ziekenhuizen wordt gewerkt.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“The twin premises underlying President Obama’s decision to allocate billions of dollars towards national deployment of electronic health records is that they will improve the quality of care and reduce the costs of delivering it.
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Pat Ford Roegner, Disruptive Women in Health Care
“As the President and CEO of the American Academy of Nursing, I am very interested in the direction and potential of HIT. Of course, the issue of meaningful use is at the center and of tremendous importance. But the definition as it currently stands does not go far enough.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“In March this year the issue of meaningful use appeared in the USA EHR implementation discussion. The ICMCC News Page has an extended overview of meaningful use related articles. In the beginning the discussion was descriptive, not defining. Aspects like e-prescription, interoperability and electronic exchange where considered essential elements (Ryan Ricks, 7 April 2009; John Moore, 24 April 2009). HIMSS added certification to it. (HIMSS, 24 April 2009).
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European Commission Directorate General Information Society
The objective of the study is to identify and analyse the legal and regulatory framework for electronic health services in the EU Member States and for cross-border services when provided via eHealth applications, in particular in the areas of electronic health records, telemedicine and e-prescription.
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Horst Kunhardt, Medical Tourism Magazine
“Germany has one of the world’s leading health care systems in terms of patient’s safety, outcome quality and process performance. Having high standards in diagnostics and therapy, high patient safety standards and one of the world’s highest environmental standard, goes hand in hand with one of the highest standards in privacy and data-protection.
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Woland's Cat
“From my personal knowledge of the last 10 years’ of standards activities in HL7 and CEN TC251 (including direct involvement over 5 years), it was clear that the mode of development was mostly ‘in-house’. Let’s look at HL7 first: it has produced v3 specifications (RIM, data types, message refinement methodology), CDA, vocabularies, an EHR ‘functional specification’, and more recently a services approach. Nearly all of this production has occurred within a committee environment, often by people with excellent domain knowledge, but also often with limited engineering skills.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Health & Human Services Department (HHS) described in a report released today how a rural community health center in central Washington used its EHR system to improve healthcare quality, patient safety and coordination of care for its growing population of individuals with diabetes.
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Barbara Bein, AAFP News Now
“Nine out of 10 medical students declare that an electronic health record, or EHR, system will be a key part of their future medical practices.
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Ochieng' Ogodo, SciDev.net
“Mobile phone software that allows scientists to send, retrieve and map data from remote areas could benefit scientists in developing countries, but some barriers must be overcome first, a study finds.
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Edgar D. Staren and Chad A. Eckes, Healthcare IT News
“In a previous article (”Keys to EHR Team Success,” Healthcare IT News; January 12, 2009) we detailed a number of governance structural components which are key to successful electronic health record (EHR) implementation.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“In June, 2008, I was asked by the California Healthcare Foundation to investigate the chronic conditions that might benefit from patient-centered health information technology applications in employed populations.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“More than three-quarters of 732 surveyed executives at provider, payer and pharmaceutical organizations believe secondary use of data from electronic health records will be their organizations’ greatest asset during the next five years.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“A study has found that paper records are more likely to be actively managed than electronic counterparts.
According to a survey carried out by the AIMM, an industry body focusing on electronic content
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AIIM
In most organizations, electronic records are still taken less seriously than paper records. Responsibility for applying good records management practice to electronic records would seem to reside in the IT Department rather than in the Records Department, and even where good policies exist, they are often not monitored or enforced.
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Roy Mark, eWeek
“MSN released Oct. 1 a beta form of My Health Info, a new online service that helps people manage their health information. The service offers a variety of tools and widgets to upload, organize and monitor health information stored in their personal Microsoft HealthVault accounts.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“The health information exchange (HIE) landscape is changing rapidly since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), according to one healthcare consultant.
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