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“Helping set the standard for interoperability between medical devices and electronic health records (EHRs), Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center (OLOL) has successfully tested and implemented auto programming between infusion pumps and a bar-code point-of-care system throughout its facility.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“On the heels of a research study sponsored by the federal government and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation comes another study by Harvard researchers that provides evidence that EHRs do not deliver savings to hospitals.
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Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“I get into conversations quite frequently about this and it is amazing that I still walk into doctors offices, hospitals and chat with individuals and they have never heard of a PHR, personal health record. One time I was trying to explain what it was to staff members and the physician thought I was having general conversation, well, and he was a non participant in technology so somewhat of an expected response.
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Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“If I was commenting on Facebook or Twitter about today’s topic on HealthBlog, I would have to give this one a very strong “like”. I’m referring to some new work from an organization in the United Kingdom known as the Digital Access Provision Forum.
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Kevin B. O'Reilly, Amednews
“Hospitals that disproportionately care for poor patients are less likely than other hospitals to have adopted health information technology, says a new study.
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“According to a recent study published by Health Affairs, hospitals in which racial and ethnic disparities exist are less likely than other hospitals to have adopted electronic health records (EHRs). Researchers surveyed 2,368 hospitals about their use of electronic systems for 24 functions. The hospitals that served the most Medicaid, African American and Hispanic patients had lower rates of EHR adoption compared to hospitals that served less of these patients.
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Dean Calbreath, San Diego News
“As the debate over health insurance reform rages on Capitol Hill, a less contentious federal health initiative is quietly being implemented in hospitals throughout the country — and generating a growing stream of business for high-tech firms in San Diego and elsewhere.
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Dana Blankenhorn, Smart Planet
“China is working as hard as America to automate its health records system.
But while America has lately turned away from proprietary solutions, toward open standards, China is going the other way.
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CBS
“Even as health care reform debate continues, changes to how your health care information is stored and shared have already begun.
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Bob Brewin, NextGov
“The Health and Human Services Department plans to issue proposed standards for health information technology systems in December, and the government’s chief technology officer told an advisory committee on Thursday that policymakers should push for adoption of simple criteria that can evolve.
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Brian Ahier, O'Reilly Radar
“Healthcare is one of the biggest industries in the world. The United States spends over 17% of its GDP on healthcare and the issue of the industry’s future is being hotly debated in Congress. Whatever happens to other elements of health reform, health information technology will play a key role in moving us towards the goal of bending the cost curve and improving quality and clinical outcomes.
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Aneesh Chopra, Charles Jaffe, Clay Shirky, Federal Advisory Committee Blog
“The Online Health Forum launched on October 28th on the FACA Blog to elicit comments and opinions on your Health IT adoption experience (or your plans for EHR adoption). Thank you for your active participation, with nearly 200 posts to date and over 10,000 “hits.” True to the spirit of our Open Government philosophy, many of you extended the conversation throughout a number of more prominent health IT blogs, including John Halamka, Adam Bosworth, Sean Nolan, Wes Rishel, Bob Coffield, and Brian Ahier, among others.
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Darla Carter, Courier-Journal
“Health agencies and institutions — from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to many area hospitals — are turning up on the Internet in the same places you would expect to find Ashton Kutcher, Mafia Wars, cousin Vera and viral videos of babies dancing to “Single Ladies.”
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“Medicare announced today that it is extending its Personal Health Record (PHR) pilot project for residents of Utah and Arizona.
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PRWeb
“Medicare PHR Choice, a pilot program that provides beneficiaries with direct input of claims data into online personal health records (PHRs), will continue through December 2010 according to officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The pilot is available to people with Original Fee-for-Service Medicare who are primary residents of Utah and Arizona.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Medical information systems need to talk to each other – whether that data sits in a physician’s ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR), or in a hospital system, or in a patient-centered Personal Health Record (PHR), the data should flow back and forth easily.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“A new study, led by Ashish Jha, MD, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Catherine DesRoches of Massachusetts General Hospital, found little difference in cost and quality among the 3,000 hospitals that were in various stages of electronic health record initiatives.
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Neha Parekh, Jaime Mayer, Natalie Rojowsky, Google
“Demonstrates how physicians use the internet and search in their clinical practices.”
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