ICMCC-GHITA
ICMCC announces:
The first Global Health IT Awareness Event
to be held in June 2011.
Articles
Getting rid of cut-and-paste functionality in EHRs
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A recent editorial in the American Journal of Medicine highlights the dangers of cutting and pasting data in an electronic health record.
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Electronic Health Records(EHR) and Practice Management – EHR is Lifeblood of Practice
Daniel Ray, Internet-9.com
“Practice management is the backbone of a physician’s business. Many doctors and physicians are concerned about refining and polishing their practice management skills. In order to make the whole business more reliable for the patients, much software has been introduced in the market and is adopted successfully by medical practitioners all over the world. One software which is considered to be more reliable for managing practice is EHR or electronic health records software.
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Personal health records most likely to be used when doctors recommend them
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“The number of people using personal health records has doubled in the past year. But those users still account for only 7% of the American patient population, according to one recent survey.
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You, your doctor and the Internet
Judy Foreman, Los Angeles Times
“One of the newest medical ethics dilemmas is the collision between the Internet and the traditionally strict boundaries between patients and doctors.
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Should Patients have access to their Data? Building on the #decisiontree discussion
Mark Scrimshire, ekivemark Posterous
“I recently came across this question in a discussion group on LinkedIn. The question came from a blog post at RegisterPatient.com.
Think about the question for a minute. “Should Patients have access to THEIR data.”
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Safety & Home Medical Devices
Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Bringing medical technology into the home involves safety issues and following the correct procedures in using or operating medical devices. Today, healthcare is requiring a number of medical devices, including dialysis equipment to treat kidney failure, infusion pumps, intravenous therapy devices, ventilators, wound therapy care therapies along with telemedicine technologies and wireless monitoring devices to be used in the home.
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Telehealth Vital in Home Care
Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Speakers at the Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on April 22nd emphasized the need to use telehealth technologies to improve patient care especially in the aging population. Speakers from the FCC, several universities, Office of the National Coordinator at HHS, and Intel, appeared to discuss aging in place by bringing healthcare technology into the home, as well as addressing the regulatory issues involved.
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Telemedicine extends services to remote areas
Brandon Bailey, The Seattle Times
“Working at the health center on Cisco Systems’ sprawling San Jose campus, Dr. Seema Sangwan examines dozens of Cisco employees a week — sometimes as they sit in a room nearly 3,000 miles away.
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ANIA: VA harnesses standardized terminology to ‘free the data’
Mary Stevens, CMIO
“The Office of Nursing Services (ONS) at the Department of Veterans Affairs is developing an inter-agency standards-based catalog of terms to drive data use, re-use and sharing. And now this effort is at the tipping point, said Murielle Beene, MBA, RN, chief nursing informatics officer at the ONS; and Diane Bedecarre, MS, RN-BC, during a session at the recent ANIA/CARING conference.
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The Tale of Mount Sinai Hospital & The Apple iPhone
Joe Heinowski, Healthcare Innovation by Design
“While many many software and hardware companies are showing progress, there’s also the problem that the big EHR providers, like Cerner and Epic Systems, have yet to build applications for these platforms.
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Uso de Social Media en Hospitales
HospitalDigital
“El Grupo Internet y Salud de la Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública ha publicado un estudio de Hospitales españoles que usan herramientas de social media.
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La carrera de lo pequeño
aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“En la escalada hacia la telemedicina, la atención inmediata y el acceso global a la sanidad está pisando fuerte la creación de dispositivos portátiles.
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Cisco Uses Telemedicine In Southern Calif. And Southwest To Lower Costs
Medical News Today
“Cisco is using its HealthPresence telemedicine system in new programs in Southern California and the Southwest to “compete with other major tech companies, including Intel, IBM and General Electric, in the growing market for health-care products and services,” The San Jose Mercury News/The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer reports.
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ONC envisions rural HIT ‘communities of practice’
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“Rural healthcare providers should be an early focus for new health IT extension centers, and future “beacon communities” will be a conduit for getting those providers better access to broadband connections, the national health IT coordinator told attendees at a recent meeting.
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NIST Begins Rolling Out EHR Performance Testing Program
Rich Silverman, EHR Experts
“There are hundreds and hundreds of Electronic Health Record software packages in the marketplace that claim to be capable of allowing you to establish meaningful use, but how do you know if those claims are true?
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Epocrates EHR Driven by Voice of Today’s Physician
BusinessWire
“As Epocrates enters the electronic health record (EHR) market, it continues to stay true to its founding premise of innovative, user-friendly technology for physicians.
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Doctors, patients test Microsoft’s do-it-yourself health technology
Todd Bishop, TechFlash
“Once a week, Cleveland Clinic endocrinologist Dr. Christian Nasr gives a checkup to five of his patients — but they don’t need to come to his office. In fact, they’re not even in the same room, or aware it’s happening.
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Doc calls EHR copy and paste function a “modern medical illness”
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The copy and paste function of an electronic health record is “one of the most egregious dangers of electronic charting,” according to a recent editorial in the American Journal of Medicine.
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ACP: Quality measures key to meaningful use
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Increasing the use of quality measurement as part of electronic health records systems is critical to achieving meaningful use of health information technology, the American College of Physicians reported in a paper released Thursday at the 129,000-member organization’s annual meeting in Toronto.
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