Articles
Sarah Dine, Health Affairs
“One of the more interesting recent health policy events took place at the Brookings Institution’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform. The December 2nd event did not focus on the reform bills in the House and Senate or the horse trading and sausage making that has gone into them. The panels and discussion, titled “Using Data to Support Better Health Care: One Infrastructure with Many Uses,” chaired by Mark McClellan, focused explicitly on health information technology (IT).
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17 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Technology, Primary Care
David Harlow, HealthBlawg
“In my post on the Declaration of Health Rights (linked to above), I wrote that one key approach to ensuring that there be more widespread sharing of data would be for participatory-medicine-minded health care providers to revise their Notices of Privacy Practices (NPPs) (as they will have to by February, thanks to the Son of HIPAA rules under the HITECH Act effective then). One reason for my suggestion that the change come from the provider side is very pragmatic.
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17 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Ownership, phr, Privacy
Bart Collet
“Trends and examples of non invasive mobile health devices, organisations and services.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Devices, mHealth, Monitoring
Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider
“Electronic health record and e-prescribing systems deliver benefits such as safer and more convenient services, but only over long periods of time and with a net increase in spending, a major European study has concluded.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | EHR: EHR | Tags: Benefits, Costs, e-prescribing
Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Vermont’s Fletcher Allen Health Care recently launched the outpatient phase of their electronic health record project just five month after implementing the inpatient phase of the project. Fletcher Allen has joined only 1.5 percent of healthcare facilities nationwide in implementing such a comprehensive computer system for patient care.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Implementation
ASIP Santé
“Madame Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Ministre de la Santé et des Sports, confie à Monsieur Michel Gagneux, Président de l’ASIP Santé, la mission de préfiguration de la délégation à la stratégie des systèmes d’information de santé.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | Tags: Health Information Technology
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Thomson Reuters is launching a new healthcare information exchange platform that officials say will enable a new generation of “meaningful use” applications.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Industry, Meaningful Use, Platform
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Although physicians support the use of electronic health records, they still have concerns about potential privacy breaches, according to the Journal of the American Informatics Association.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Mental Health, Privacy
Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“With the physician shortage growing, healthcare providers are looking to health IT to deliver time savings and improved efficiencies, according to a market survey.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Technology, Physicians, Telemedicine
KevinMD.com
“The advent of the internet, combined with social media, has made everyone experts and has increased the disdain for authority.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information, Internet, Social Media
Intersystems
“A new health information system that will enable patients’ medical records to be shared electronically with hospitals, nursing homes and doctor’s offices across Long Island was activated today and demonstrated at a news conference at NuHealth System-NUMC.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Hospitals, Record Sharing
Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“As they age, millions of Baby Boomers will develop chronic medical conditions like heart failure, diabetes and arthritis. They will, as a result, end up taking complex medical regimens as prescribed by their physicians. Heart failure patients for example, usually end up taking digoxin, a diuretic or two, potassium supplements, anti-arrhythmic drugs, beta blockers and so forth.
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16 December 2009 | 1 Comment »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Compliance, Elderly, Medication, phr
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“KLAS released its annual rankings of healthcare software and services vendors yesterday. Rankings aside, the most important data point of the survey of hospital CIOs and medical practice executives is that customer satisfaction for ambulatory care EMRs dropped significantly.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Satisfaction, vendors
John Commins, HealthLeaders Media
“The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation today launched a new Web site for its 58,000 diabetic patients with the hope of making them more active and informed participants in their own care.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Diabetes, Health Information, Platform, Web
MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“I have created a new Web petition “Transparency and Openness in Electronic Patient Records and Other Healthcare Information Technology Systems.”
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Transparency
MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“2009 is not over, however, and it has yielded another article, a systematic literature review and somewhat novel analytical approach, that supports the observations of numerous independent-minded investigators that health IT is very, very much harder than it looks, and that irrational exuberance unsupported by robust evidence (but perhaps — in my own opinion — supported by the color of money) is the prevalent health IT driver today.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Failure
Advance
“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente announced an exciting program designed to improve care and services to our Nation’s heroes. VA and Kaiser Permanente are launching a pilot program to exchange electronic health record (EHR) information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Hospitals
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Systems integrator Halfpenny Technologies Inc. has introduced software to enable physicians to access laboratory, pathology and radiology reports via iPhone, BlackBerry or Android-powered smart phones.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: lab results, smartphone
Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
“On balance, it’s finally a good time to be a developer of health information technology, with the market, at long last, expected to boom from the stimulating effect of an estimated $34 billion in federal subsidies for hospitals and physicians to buy electronic health-record systems over the next five years.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Industry
Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“As the year winds to a close, other publications are taking a look back at 2009. We’ll be doing that in FierceHealthIT next Monday, but mobile healthcare technology is different.
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Consumer, Health Information Exchange, mobile, phr
