EMR Daily News
“According to the American Chiropractic Association, there are more than 60,000 licensed chiropractors in the U.S. serving millions of patients who spend $40 billion annually. Those numbers are climbing as research shows a significant connection between chiropractic services and positive healthcare outcomes.
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Matt Cover, CNS News
“The Senate Committee on Aging last week offered a preview of the government’s future role in health care, showing how Americans will interact with doctors and other health care providers. The demonstration offers a glimpse at an overlooked effect of health care reform.
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Cheryl Powell, Beacon Journal
“With the click of a mouse, the ER doctor in Wooster instantly pulls up your old test results and medical history, even from the Akron hospitals some 35 miles away.
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Liz Seegert, The Human Factor
“There’s an interesting debate underway on one of the LinkedIn discussion boards about whether or not patients should have access to their electronic health data. Depending upon who is answering, it ranges from of course, to why not, to no way. And what is an EHR anyway? How is it different from an EMR? And why should I care?
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Hard to believe–and we’d like to see some more proof ourselves–but a California hospital claims that it is the first in the country to download the VA’s VistA EMR software and tailor the open-source system for its own use.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As the push to digitize medical imaging at hospitals and other medical facilities becomes more prevalent, many large healthcare IT vendors will see their dominant market share dwindle, predicts Jamie Coffin, VP of Dell’s healthcare and life sciences division.
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Sven Larsen, Pixels & Pills
“Often, these same technologies that we love playing with are vilified for distancing us from each other. Texting when you could be talking. Playing Farmville on Facebook when you could be living life. Staring at a screen instead of moving, acting, living.
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Stephen Gantz, HealthITExchange
“At last week’s meeting of the ONC Health IT Policy Committee, the Privacy and Security Workgroup reported that it will be focusing in the near term on privacy protections for health information exchange (HIE), including developing recommendations on what the role of consent and consumer preferences should be. The workgroup rightly sees consent and other patient-centric means of controlling the use and disclosure of personal health information as key to engendering trust among patients in electronic health records and health information exchanges of the data that will be stored in those records.
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“We’ve been fans of the concept of the e-visit for a long time. And though some of the concerns from the medical establishment are warranted–it’s tough to know the nuances of a case without a pre-existing relationship with a patient, physicians aren’t often reimbursed for their time, there isn’t enough scientific evidence to show e-visits are effective–much of the negativity likely was due to simple reluctance to change.
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Watson AJ et al, Archives of Dermatology, 146(4)
Objective
To evaluate whether delivering acne follow-up care via an asynchronous, remote online visit (e-visit) platform produces equivalent clinical outcomes to office care.
Design
A prospective, randomized controlled study.
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Ordinary citizens have flocked to social media by the millions. If government wants to get its messages out and truly engage the citizenry, agencies need to embrace the same tools, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention marketing specialist.
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John Halamka, Healthcare IT News
“Although healthcare reform has its supporters and detractors, healthcare IT reform – the use of technology to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare throughout the country – has broad support from all stakeholders.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Communications and medical technologies have the ability to keep more seniors healthier at a lower cost, particularly those who live in remote rural areas, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), who chairs the Senate Special Committee on Aging, told the panel at a hearing on Friday.
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Joseph Kim, Medicine and Technology
“I tend to meet many disabled physicians. Why? Because some of them are looking for some employment opportunities and they stumble upon my other site: NonClinicalJobs.com.
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Hospital IT Europe
“The key element of the new partnership will be the delivery of a Clinical Information Portal built on Carefx’s Fusionfx platform. The portal will integrate NHS clinical and administrative applications residing either inside an NHS Trust or between multiple healthcare organisations, providing the ability to connect disparate systems and leverage and protect existing investments.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“Summary Care Records may be created outside general practice under NHS Connecting for Health plans for the development of the SCR programme.
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aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Los CDC son una iniciativa del gobierno estadounidense que, entre otras, tiene la misión de proveer información sobre Salud Pública y seguridad tanto para médicos como para pacientes.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“If you’ve read this blog for a while you know that I love to compare EMR implementation to other parts of life. It’s always amazing to me how similar other parts of life are to EMR selection and implementation.
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Karen Weintraub, The Boston Globe
“David Hatch uses a joystick to direct his wheelchair, but he dreads the day — coming soon — when he won’t have enough control over his hands to steer it around corners or avoid bumping into things.
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Brian Eastwood, HealthITExchange
“A new version of HealthVault, expected to be released by Microsoft in the third quarter, aims to let personal health records (PHR) flow from patients to providers to hospitals and back again.
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