Christina Spencer, Toronto Sun
“Canadians’ use of the health-care system is mostly through visits to their doctor, yet few physicians’ offices are using computerized systems to organize or share patient information.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“As the American Hospital Association (AHA) gears up for its annual conference next week in Washington, the association has released a series of papers outlining its 2010 priorities. Health IT was identified as a top priority.
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Fred Schulte, Emma Schwartz, Huffington Post
“One day in March 2009, hospital workers misread small print on a computer screen, causing them to dispense 10 times the prescribed dose of a drug. Result: The patient has a heart attack.
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Don Fluckinger, Search HealthIT
“Smartphone use is accelerating among patients and physicians, both of whom are using them to access information in electronic health record (EHR) systems and other applications.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) by physicians – particularly by primary care physicians – has been a challenge, for a number of reasons.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“A recent study found that the Department of Veterans Affairs generated savings of about $3 billion over 10 years by using health IT systems such as electronic health records. However, the private healthcare sector can also achieve comparable quality of care improvements and cost benefits with health IT as long as adoption is mass, systems are utilized, and standards compliance is met, said a VA official.
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Deborah C. Peel, Healthcare IT News
“Stephanie Clifford’s story in the New York Times tells how the massive, under-the-radar data mining industry just hammered the one of the last nails into the coffin of online “privacy”. In case you are naïve enough to imagine you have any privacy at all online – this story proves you have none.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Implementing electronic medical record systems often requires changes to a healthcare provider’s management culture, according to a recent survey of hospitals that are far along in their EMR efforts.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“If you thought our recent debate over health policy was contentious and occasionally brain-dead, just wait until you see what’s brewing across the Atlantic.
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“The National Cancer Institute plans to release a lightweight electronic health record designed to capture data specific to a cancer patient’s office visit.
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Cheryl Parker, Healthcare goes mobile
“When I started this blog, I was sitting in the surgery waiting room at a small community hospital. Not far away from me were three people waiting for a loved one. The youngest person in the group was probably in her 50s and the other two were in their 70s or 80s.
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Thiru K, et al, Informatics in Primary Care, 17(4)
Objectives:
General practitioners are increasingly required to practice in a paperless environment and to collect clinical data electronically on electronic patient record (EPR) systems. A principal step in meeting general practice information needs continues to be the establishment of disease registers and consequently the identification of patient populations within primary care databases is a prerequisite. This study aims to identify and validate the optimal search strategy for coronary heart disease (CHD).
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Walsh MN, et al, American Heart Journal, 159(4)
Background
Electronic health records (EHRs) are considered an important technology to improve the quality of health care, yet few data exist regarding their effect on delivery of evidence-based care in the outpatient setting.
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Seale C, et al, Qualitative Health Research, 20(5)
We report a comparative keyword analysis of interviews and Internet postings involving people with breast and prostate cancer and discussion of sexual health. Interviewees produce retrospective accounts, their content guided by interviewers’ questions, which might elicit rich biographical and contextual details. Internet exchanges concern participants’ current experiences and contain detailed accounts of disease processes, medical procedures, bodily processes, and, in the case of sexual health, sexual practices.
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Jane Metzger, Donna Schmidt, H&HN Weekly
“Thanks to the financial incentives (and disincentives) built into the HITECH provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, many hospital executives are accelerating plans to implement or optimize computerized provider order entry (CPOE), one of the requirements for “meaningful use” that must be demonstrated under the HITECH provisions.
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Markel A., The American Journal of Medicine, 123(5)
I strongly identify with the subject of the editorial by Siegler and Adelman. Many of the problems described regarding the “copy and paste” issue are of the same magnitude at our Medical Center.
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Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review
“The next generation of implantable medical devices will rely on a high-tech material forged not in the foundry but in the belly of a worm. Tufts University biomedical engineer Fiorenzo Omenetto is using silk as the basis for implantable optical and electronic devices that will act like a combination vital-sign monitor, blood test, imaging center, and pharmacy–and will safely break down when no longer needed.
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Timothy W. Martin, The Wall Street Journal
“Doctors are increasingly prescribing medications electronically, abandoning the traditional paper scripts that can result in drug errors due to hard-to-read writing or coverage denials by a patient’s insurer.
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ICTzorg
“De presentatie van keuze-informatie over de zorg op websites kan beter. Om het gebruik ervan te vergemakkelijken moet dit soort informatie eenduidig worden gepresenteerd.
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Peter Rietveld, Security.nl
“Een genante vertoning van het ministerie van VWS rond een beveiligingsonderzoek naar het EPD: onderzoeker Guido van ’t Noordende van de Universiteit van Amsterdam onderwierp het huidige EPD aan een nader onderzoek en kwam met een aantal bevindingen die er niet om liegen, die vervolgens door het ministerie onder de tafel werden weggeschoffeld. Van ’t Noordende werd weggezet als oppervlakkig en ondeskundig.
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