Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The deliberations of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) are trying to build a platform where health data can be easily shared between appropriate stakeholders – physicians, patients, and others involved in healthcare – while maintaining privacy and security.
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Carrie Vaughan, HealthLeaders Media
“The healthcare industry won’t realize the full value of its investment in electronic health records until it finds secondary uses for all of the data being captured, such as predicting public health trends and improving patient care, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Industries Group.
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ICTzorg
“CEO Steve Ballmer van Microsoft brengt een bezoek aan Nederland. Op donderdag 8 oktober zal hij daarbij met een delegatie uit de zorg over personal health records (PHR) praten.
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J.D. Kleinke, The Health Care Blog
‘During the standard what’re-you-doing-this-week segment of a Sunday barbecue, I told a neighbor who works in the real world that I was “going to the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco,” a sort of random zeitgeist check on a phrase I use so often at work I don’t really remember what it means.
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Kate Huvane Gamble, Healthcare Informatics
“These days, hospital CIOs are under a great deal of stress. There’s pressure from the Joint Commission to improve patient safety and reduce adverse events. It’s a pressure compounded by the fact that Medicare no longer reimburses for costs related to preventable errors.
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Howard Anderson, HDM Breaking News
‘Health care organizations that developed their own electronic health records systems likely will be able to get them certified as being compliant with the meaningful use requirements of the federal EHR incentive program next year.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews
“One practice installed an electronic medical records system and cut 12 staff members. Another practice added two full-time employees.
These two very different scenarios help underscore one truth: The only definite aspect about determining post-EMR staffing needs is that there is no magic formula.
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Leslie R. Kane, Medscape Today
“The best advice on choosing the right electronic medical record (EMR) system comes from physicians who are using one, who know what’s good or bad about it, and now — perhaps sadder but wiser — either recommend or regret their choice.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“One of the many jobs of a reporter is to distill the facts from the rhetoric, to be the filter between breathless hype–be it commercial or political–and the truth for you, the busy reader. For a health IT reporter, that job becomes extra challenging whenever a big industry conference happens.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“In a story about telemedicine and mobile healthcare that ran over the weekend, a HealthDay headline boasted: “In Health Care Today, It’s Electronic All the Way.” That’s a rather absurd statement for an industry that still keeps most of its records on paper, but the point is that a few forms of telemedicine have become almost routine parts of the workflow of some physicians.
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ScienceDaily
“Routine use of electronic health records may improve the quality of care provided in community-based primary care practices more than other common strategies intended to raise the quality of medical care, according to a new study by RAND Corporation researchers.
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Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions — 80 percent or more, experts say — are really made by individuals, instead of medical professionals, whether choices are about diet and exercise or ways of managing chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The American Health Information Management Association has unveiled a Health Information Bill of Rights, a set of seven principles for protecting health care consumers.
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Christopher Neefus, CNS News
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says that everyone can opt out of having an electronic health record included in the federally mandated national electronic-health-record system created by the stimulus law enacted in February.
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EarthTimes
“Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., today announced a $4 million, three-year contract to provide the State of Wyoming with powerful tools to improve care for Medicaid clients and reduce program costs.
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Josh Catone, Mashable
“I haven’t been to the doctor in almost 2 years. It’s not that I haven’t been sick during the past couple of years, but rather that finding a new doctor (I moved about 18 months ago) and finding the time needed for a doctor visit (including filling out insurance forms, answering medical history questions, and making the appointment) is difficult for a busy person. But in the future, social media and the web might help to make doctor visits more pain-free.
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e-Health Insider
“Last month, E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk decided to run a poll on the future of electronic health records in England. The aim was to test support for the Conservative Party’s plans for a shake-up of the National Programme for IT in the NHS and its reported interest in letting patients store records with Microsoft and Google.
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John Halamka, Computerworld
“Privacy and security are foundational to health care reform. Patients will trust electronic health care records only if they believe their confidentiality is protected via good security.
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Mario Gibbels, ICTzorg
“Het aantal ziekenhuizen dat gebruik maakt van het thuismonitoringssysteem Motiva van Philips bij de behandeling van patiënten met hartfalen is in een jaar tijd verdubbeld.
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Pim van der Beek, Computable
“Het aantal ziekenhuizen, apothekers en huisartsenposten dat op dit moment gegevens kan uitwisselen via het Elektronisch Patiënten Dossier (EPD) ligt op driehonderd. Dat is nog geen vijf procent van het aantal zorginstellingen dat in 2010 moet zijn aangesloten op het EPD.
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