Brister, Megan, and Beth Dewitt, ElectronicHealthcare, 8(4)
Information governance considers the principles, processes and policies for protecting personal information and personal health information. In particular, information governance frameworks draw upon legal, “best practice” and quality requirements to ensure that personal information and personal health information is kept confidential and secure at all times.
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Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz, Huffington Post Investigative Fund
“Despite mounting concern over safety risks posed by digital medical records systems, government officials are years away from starting to track hazards stemming from use of the devices.
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GLITR
“Ann Arbor-based White Pine Systems LLC, a provider of on-line personal health records systems, has released SPINNphr Basic, a low cost re-packaging of its SPINN personal health record system intended for smaller physician practices and clinics.
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iHealthBeat
“The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs’ joint health data exchange program is just in the second phase of development, but officials say it has already provided valuable insight into interoperability, Federal Computer Week reports.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“This link will take you to a slideshare,net presentation that defines how healthcare providers can take control of the EHR project.
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“However, whatever your opinion is about PHRs in general or Google Health in particular, an article by Andis Robeznieks in Modern Healthcare made my heart jump for joy this morning.
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Andis Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare
“Patients should decide who gets to see their healthcare data, said Alfred Spector, Google vice president of research and special initiatives, during a question-and-answer session held after his presentation today at the American College of Healthcare Executives’ annual congress on healthcare leadership in Chicago.
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Jean-Jacques Fraslin, i-med
“Pour le rapporteur Dominique Tuan, tout est blindé. Le Dossier Médical Baladeur est autant en sécurité que s’il était entreposé à Fort Knox. Jean-Pierre Door renchérit : « La sécurisation est primordiale, qu’il s’agisse de la sécurité informatique, avec cryptage du support, authentification de l’utilisateur par mot de passe et biométrie, mais aussi de la sécurité de l’information par authentification de l’auteur des informations fournies et gravées, traçabilité des accès et, bien entendu, ce qui est techniquement possible, sécurité en cas de vol ou de perte du support ».
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As the technological transformation of healthcare takes shape, the hope is that insurance companies and medical providers will coordinate patient information in a way that reduces data duplication.
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“Every day, patients, caregivers and office staff fax potentially sensitive information to other providers, agencies or payers, whose identity they haven’t verified. This type of easy-to-use electronic information exchange has been part of the healthcare landscape for decades.
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Department of Health Policy, George Washington University
Electronic health information exchange promises an array of potential benefits for individuals and the U.S. health care system through improved clinical care and reduced cost. At the same time, this environment also poses new challenges and opportunities for protecting individually identifiable health information. In health care, accurate and complete information about individuals is critical to providing high quality, coordinated care.
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lucienengelen’s posterous
“Call me pessimistic, call me naive. But having a look at discussions on the internet and print on “how big and fast” mobile health will evolve over the next years, how many billion market this will be in 2014, I often raise my eye-brows.
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Lygeia Riccardi, The Health Care Blog
“I recently applied for life insurance. The broker, whom I’ve never met, asked about my health history. “So you’ve just had a baby,” he began. I asked him how he knew. “You’re on Twitter.”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The process for defining how Electronic Health Records (EHRs) will be certified, in order that physicians can “meaningfully use certified EHRs” to access ARRA/HITECH stimulus incentive bonuses, is becoming clearer step-by-step.
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MedicExchange.com
“MacPractice plans to become the first EHR / EMR solution built exclusively for the Mac platform to achieve certification to the federal government’s proposed HIT standards for EHR / EMR.
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MedicExchange.com
“VitalHealth Software collaborated with Mayo Clinic for developing a next-generation electronic medical record ( EMR ) which is designed to support the workflow of primary care physicians.
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Medical News Today
“The Internet has had a profound effect on clinical practice by providing both physicians and patients with a wealth of information. But with those rewards come risks of incorrect or poorly interpreted information that require that a doctor “never be optional.”
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Andrew McIntyre, Medical-Objects
“National Health IT programs do not have a good record of success in general, and Australia has been a good example of that to date. I don’t think anything is about to change.
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eHealthNews.EU
“Clinicians can now access Map of Medicine pathways quickly and more easily, without having to remember a username and password. Login-free access to England and Wales national pathways is available through NHS Evidence search results. The Map delivers information to clinicians at their fingertips, allowing them to choose what is right for their patients.
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Renzo Taal, eHealthNews.EU
“Since the launch of the Community eHealth Action Plan in 2004, the European Commission has encouraged member countries to move from paper-based to electronic medical records (EMRs).
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