EMR Adoption: Starting to Evolve or Still Stuck in the Past?
Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“In preparation for my new beat as technology editor for HealthLeaders Media, I’ve been reading back issues of HealthLeaders magazine.
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New Directions for Health Care Information Technology
William W. Stead, Herbert S. Lin, NGC
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), passed in March 2009, allocated nearly $20 billion to invest in new health care information technology (HCIT) over the next couple of years. Such investment could go a long way towards improving the operation of the information-intensive health care system, but if invested in the kinds of information technology that characterize most of today’s deployments, such efforts will do little to help advance a vision of 21st century health care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.
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Living Profiles: Transmedia Personal Health Record Systems for Young Adults
ProjectHealthDesign
“Visual story from the Project healthdesign grantee team from Stanford University who worked with the Art Center College of Design to help adolescents with chronic illnesses assume greater responsibility for their health by exploring a personal health application that fits within teenagers lives.”
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Our future mobile health opportunity, oversized and underdeployed
Laurie Orlov, Aging In Place Technology Watch
“Apocalypse and opportunity — the bet is that we’re not going to age well. Our favorite gloom-and-doom source, CNBC, has offered up today’s Doomsday Boomer Prediction. Those boomers are going to be a healthcare nightmare: “They visit the doctor more, they consume more services, and they aren’t afraid to use their $7 trillion in collective wealth to improve their quality of life.
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OUTCOME, REACH Call partner to integrate stroke-telemedicine data into Get With The Guidelines–Stroke program
The Medical News
“Outcome Sciences, Inc. (OUTCOME), the leading provider of patient registries, studies, and technologies for evaluating real-world outcomes, and REACH Call, the leading provider of web-based telemedicine services
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Latest survey: Physician use of EHRs growing
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A survey recently released by research firm SK&A, a Cegedim Company, shows an increase in physician adoption of EHRs, confirming earlier findings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
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Onlinedossier geeft patiënt de regie
Medisch Contact
“‘Als dokters hebben wij ons de ziekte onterecht toegeëigend. Maar de patiënt moet de regie terugkrijgen’, zegt Bart van Aken, gynaecoloog en directeur innovatie in het Flevoziekenhuis in Almere. Hij maakt zich er al jaren hard voor: patiënten hebben recht op informatie over hun ziekte, zodat ze de regie kunnen voeren.
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RVZ: ‘Gezondheid 2.0 versterkt positie patiënt’
Mario Gibbels, ICTzorg
“Gezondheid 2.0 versterkt de positie van de patiënt en kan de zorg kwalitatief beter en efficiënter maken. De manier waarop de zorg is georganiseerd, en met name de financieringsstructuur, belemmert echter de verdere ontwikkeling van Gezondheid 2.0.
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Malcolm Thatcher – Mater Health Services
Karen Dearne, AustralianIT
“THE federal government has failed to grasp the potential for health IT to transform healthcare delivery, Malcolm Thatcher says.
“I’m frustrated that e-health is not yet a mainstream agenda item for the government,” he says.
“While they’re talking about healthcare reform, I’m not sure there’s an understanding of the extent to which e-health can be transformational in that reform.”
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Web 2.0 in Action in Hospitals
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“We can talk about the potential role of social media or web 2.0 in the future of healthcare forever but what really counts is how doctors use these tools and applications in their practices. So I’m very glad when I see an example that works in real, and it means there are reasons to work more and more in order to change healthcare through social media.
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Chilmark Needs to Chill Out on CCR/CCD Findings
Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“John Moore of Chilmark Research and I agree on things 90+ percent of the time. He even thanked me personally for our collegial relationship in a Thanksgiving Day essay on his blog.
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Medical Paper Trail Takes Electronic Turn
Jane E. Brody, The New York Times
“As far back as I can remember, medical care has been paper-driven. When you see a new doctor or return to one you haven’t seen for a while, you are asked to complete a written medical history that includes every illness or condition you have ever had (along with operations and their dates), every drug and over-the-counter medication and supplement you take, the major illnesses and causes of death of members of your family, and perhaps other medical facts of possible interest to the doctor.
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Physicians Using Twitter
iCons in Medicine
A recent report from Forrester Research indicates that the use of social networking websites among people aged 35 to 54 increased by 60 percent in the last year. Twitter and Facebook have become popular among federal centers like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (@CDCemergency), hospitals like the University of Maryland Medical System (University of Maryland Medical Center – @UMMC), and even individual doctors.
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Feds Tackling Health IT Privacy, Security Issues
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“While the federal government is enticing healthcare providers with billions of dollars in stimulus funding to digitize patient health data, the feds also appear serious about the data privacy and security concerns these efforts raise.
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Online doctor visits prove valuable at some Europe bases
Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
“The U.S. Army is testing telemedicine as a way to give patients at remote posts in Europe better access to American specialists.
In recent years, as the military footprint in Europe has shrunk and U.S. hospitals in places such as Würzburg have closed, servicemembers and family members increasingly have been sent to foreign medical facilities for treatment.
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ONC Standards Make CCHIT Process Irrelevant
John, EMR and HIPAA
“FierceEMR has really hit the healthcare IT arena in force over the past 6 months. They even have a big party planned for HIMSS. I’ll probably be stopping by since it’s the day after the New Media Meetup at HIMSS.
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Blog Post: Conceptual Changes: Data in a Cleaninghouse
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“We thought it would be all over. And as was published today, it isn’t, we still dump paper medical records. We thought we would stop loosing records in the mail or grabbing the wrong pile of documents. Not so.
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Docs increase their use of “EHR components”
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Electronic healthcare record adoption has increased by 3.2 percent in physician offices since February 2009, according to a new survey.
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HHS to survey Medicare patients on PHR use
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Health and Human Services Department plans to survey 500 Medicare beneficiaries this fall about difficulties and benefits they may have experienced using personal health record (PHR) systems.
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Data security breaches often triggered by carelessness
Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“Often the biggest threat to your practice and patient data is not an outside hacker or a snooping employee — it’s somebody’s forgetfulness.
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