Cheryl McEvoy, Advance
“Last year, ADVANCE trotted the globe for a glimpse of electronic health record (EHR) efforts in foreign countries. While the U.S. pioneered health information technology (HIT), nationwide adoption lagged behind that of other nations.
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Jack Beaudoin, Healthcare IT News
“The following list of 23 Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria for eligible hospitals was taken from the proposed rule: “Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program”.”
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Jack Beaudoin, Healthcare IT News
“The following list of 25 Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria for eligible providers was taken from the proposed rule: “Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program”.”
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The government delivered on Wednesday the long-awaited definition of meaningful use of electronic health record technology, and it came wrapped in about 700 pages of proposed regulation.
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Reuters
U.S. health officials released standards for electronic medical records on Wednesday, seeking to spur the technology in hopes of cutting health costs and reducing medical errors.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Dec. 30 posted a proposed–and long awaited–rule defining “meaningful use” of electronic health records to qualify for the Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“It seems common wisdom in the U.S. that the “Europeans are way ahead of us” in computerized medicine.
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Advance
‘Pfizer announced results of a survey the company recently sponsored that shows physicians are more likely to report side effects through an electronic health records (EHR) system, as compared to traditional paper methods.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“Plans to allow Estonians to set up appointments and for doctors to prescribe medicines online have slowed because of problems connecting old and new systems, the minister of social affairs has announced.
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Chelsey Ledue, Healthcare IT News
“A gap exists between policymakers’ expectations that electronic medical records can improve coordination of patient care and clinicians’ real-world experiences with EMRs, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Two offshore drilling rigs in the Arabian Gulf have deployed new video medical services to provide better healthcare for rig workers.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The use of telemedicine in intensive care units does not improve patients’ risk of death or length of stay, according to a recent study.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“What this really means is that productivity among “intensivists,” as doctors specializing in intensive care are known, is now free to rise. Telemedicine technology lets each doctor treat more patients simultaneously, with little added risk.
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ScienceDaily
“Remote monitoring of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) was not associated with an overall improvement in the risk of death or length of stay in the ICU or hospital, according to a study in the December 23/30 issue of JAMA.
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Shraddha Nair, Livemint.com
“Mumbai: The nascent healthcare portals industry is up for a funding boost, given its attractiveness for private equity, or PE, and venture capital, or VC, investors, as well as the Unique Identification Number, or UID, project that will collate digital data on the nation’s population.
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Carrie Vaughan, HealthLeaders Media
“There are still huge barriers to the meaningful use of health IT relating to security, health information exchange, decision support, and the secondary use of data collected in electronic health records. The government doesn’t know how to surmount these obstacles, which is why Department of Health and Human Services announced it’s providing $60 million in grants funded through the HITECH Act for Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects.
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Cheryl McEvoy, Advance
“I have to wonder sometimes–are electronic health records (EHRs) really the way to go? Now, before someone launches a spiel about how they save time, cut costs and improve the patient experience, let me tell you about last night’s visit to the dentist.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Within the realm of Health IT, 2009 has been a year of unprecedented change, high expectations, and significant frustrations. As a result of ARRA and its HITECH section, which earmarked $19.2 billion intended to increase the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems by physicians and hospitals, unprecedented attention has been focused on EHR systems.
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Chikodi Chima, Allvoices
“In the battle to provide reliable health services to millions of rural poor worldwide, the cellular phone has quickly emerged as the most powerful weapon.
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ScienceBlog
“A gap exists between policy makers’ expectations that current commercial electronic medical records (EMRs) can improve coordination of patient care and clinicians’ real-world experiences with EMRs, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) published online in The Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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