Chuckwebster, Electronic Health Record Workflow Management Systems
“This is the first of several posts about the important role pediatric and primary care EMR workflow systems and business process management will play in achieving the high performance pediatric medical home model.
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New Kerala
“Text messages or reminders on cell phones can prove useful in improving healthy habits amongst people, according to a new study.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As more doctors and hospitals make use of electronic health records, the next step in healthcare’s transformation will be to ensure that doctors and other healthcare providers can exchange of patient data.
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Anna Tong, PhysOrg
“The Internet’s power to make something “go viral” has surpassed the phrase’s original meaning. Sneeze once, you might pass a virus to the person next to you. Post something online, the entire world might get infected.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that do not comply by July 2011 to be penalised.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Business associates who handle private patient information for healthcare organizations are largely unprepared to meet the new data breach related obligations included in the HITECH Act, according to a new survey.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“State e-health collaboratives across the country are gearing to submit their operational plans for the health information exchange (HIE) portion of the federal stimulus funds under the HITECH Act. New York eHealth collaborative is no exception, but it finds itself at a critical juncture.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“The concept of medical travel, slowly gaining a foothold in North America, took a step forward on the European continent this week with the announcement of a partnership between Premier Healthcare Germany and Offsurance.
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iHealthBeat
“Experts say that telepsychiatry could help address a shortage of child psychiatrists in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reports.
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Christopher Behnan, Daily Press & Argus
“Imagine being admitted to the hospital and reporting your allergies, prescription medications and past surgeries once – or not at all – rather than at every stage of your stay.
That’s the bottom-line goal of the $400 million nationwide electronic health-care records network that Saint Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital in Howell is now connected to.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has unveiled a new program that helps streamline how healthcare organizations report to their business associates their status of compliance to security regulations such as HIPAA and others.
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Sebastian Rupley, Gigaom
“Could your smartphone one day notify you that you are in the early stages of a life-threatening disease – long before a doctor does? Strong signs indicate that mobile phones will become capable of that and many more types of medical diagnostic tasks. The race is on at UCLA, UC Berkeley and other organizations to imbue cell phones with imaging and microscope-like functionality that could turn them into lifesavers on a grand scale.
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Rediff Business
“Raja finds the idea “fascinating”. He’s talking about a cheap portable ECG device that could be set up at tele-radiology centres across the country and linked to a physician at a central location.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“Hospitals that treat large numbers of poor patients utilize electronic health records (EHRs) less frequently and provide care of lower quality, according to a study by Harvard scientists. However, the scientists also found that when such hospitals do use EHRs, the quality gap disappears.
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Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“Kevin Clifford and I were chatting about his experiences in taking a Michigan-area free clinic live on an open source EMR and I was very interested to share it with others. Kevin said he volunteered at the free clinic because he wanted to serve his community and said that there are many other such free clinics in need of IT improvements in Michigan and elsewhere.
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Susannah Fox, e-Patients.net
“NPR’s Morning Edition story, “Patients Turn to Online Buddies for Help Healing,” combined research and real-life examples, participatory medicine and health data rights.
Much of what I said during my interview with Joseph Shapiro is based on what I’ve written and read here on e-patients.net, so, first, thank you.
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David C. Kibbe and Brian Klepper, The Health Care Blog
“There is growing tension within the Obama administration’s health team over who will control health data exchange: everyone (including consumers and their doctors), or just large provider organizations. The public debate will be framed in terms of privacy, security, and the adequacy of current exchange standards.
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KHN
“As the United States launches “an ambitious program, backed by $19 billion in government incentives, to accelerate the adoption of computerized patient records in doctors’ offices and hospitals,” a new study of 3,000 hospitals “has found little difference in the cost and quality of care,” The New York Times reports.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“The Department of Health has announced that the Summary Care Record is to be rolled out across London from this week.
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