Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“A prerequisite to any Meaningful Use discussion is the need to keep in mind that the current HIT effort, and appropriation of funds, originated from a legislative act whose primary goals were to reduce health care costs and create jobs in a faltering economy. The secondary goals of increasing quality of care and reducing disparities are assumed to be supportive of the primary goals.
[ More ]
Heise Online
“Zentrales Gesprächsthema der ConHIT waren die Veränderungen bei der Projektgesellschaft Gematik, die für die Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) zuständig ist: Ohne eine telematische Infrastruktur, die mit der eGK aufgebaut wird, sind viele Projekte Makulatur. Dass immer noch keine Klarheit darüber herrscht, wie freiwillig die Ärzte ihre Praxen mit dieser Infrastruktur vernetzen müssen, wurde bedauert.
[ More ]
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The National Cancer Institute announced it will offer a specialized, lightweight electronic health record for cancer patients. Healthcare organizations can and often do customize the EHRs they implement to suit their clinicians’ workflow and to capture data that they deem relevant. But there’s a need for further EHR customization for specialties, such as behavioral health, and diseases.
[ More ]
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“When Regina Holliday needed her husband’s electronic health record to help her care for him after a terminal cancer diagnosis it didn’t arrive for days, was incorrect, and outdated when he was transferred to another provider. She later used the correct record to care for him until his death.
[ More ]
Lia Steakley, Scope
“As someone who has spent a fair amount of time in dermatologists’ offices, I was interested to read that a recent study deemed online dermatology visits as effective as office visits.
[ More ]
iHealthBeat
“Although the majority of RNs surveyed said EHRs reduced medication errors and improved care coordination, nearly half reported that EHRs had a negative impact on stress levels.
[ More ]
Paul Christopher Webster, CMAJ News
“Six provincial auditors joined with federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser yesterday to release a report depicting a dismal picture of Canada’s efforts to build a national health “infostructure.”
[ More ]
“Smartcards (with embedded chips) issued at some hospitals in India, which generally used to contain only personal information of the patients, are evolving as a tool that would contain critical clinical data of the patients.
[ More ]
Debra Berlyn, Comcast Voices
“I recently made a new friend on my social network. Like many people in the United States and around the world, she enjoys all the benefits of having a broadband connection and participating in a social network, including communicating with family and reconnecting with friends and loved ones.
[ More ]
Cindy Throop
“Thanks to the HIT Policy Committee Implementation Workgroup for hosting an interesting, informative, and lively hearing on consumer engagement today!
It seems there is a fair amount of consensus and support for the current suggested meaningful use criteria for the coming few years. These requirements should serve as a floor – not a ceiling – for progress towards achieving a stronger technology-based health care system.
[ More ]
Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“The Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research Projects on Security (SHARPS) project is a multi-institutional and multidisciplinary research project, supported by a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator, aimed at reducing security and privacy barriers to the meaningful use of health information technology.
[ More ]
Sharing Strength
“Health 2.0 underlined that the patient story and conversations are as important as data to be able to make informed healthcare decisions.
[ More ]
Chris Gibbons, Healthcare Disparities Solutions Blog
“In October 2009, the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) convened a small group of researchers, policymakers, and experts in health IT and health care disparities. The goal was to inform AHRQ’s short- and long-term research and action strategies to reduce disparities while improving health care quality, with a specific focus on the potential for using health IT as a tool in underresourced health care delivery settings.
[ More ]
iHealthBeat
“At a Health IT Policy Committee work group hearing on Tuesday, experts stressed the importance of including patients in the use of electronic health records, Federal Computer Week reports.
[ More ]
Mark Hagland, Healthcare Informatics
“Health information exchange (HIE) development experiences in a number of European nations should give HIE innovators in the United States both some hope and some cause for concern, as they consider the many hurdles facing HIE progress in this country.
[ More ]
Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“The Slovakian Ministry of Health has signed a €32.4m deal with US company Ness Technologies to implement the first phase of its electronic healthcare system.
[ More ]
Office of the Auditor General of Canada
“Implementing electronic health records in Canada is a pan-Canadian initiative that requires the collaboration of stakeholders, including the federal government, Canada Health Infoway Inc., and the provincial and territorial governments, as well as other organizations involved in the delivery of health care.
[ More ]
Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“Die Gesellschafter der Projektgesellschaft Gematik, die für die Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) zuständig ist, haben sich in Berlin auf eine Neuausrichtung des gesamten Systems geeinigt. Leistungsträger (Krankenkassen) wie Leistungserbringer (Ärzte, Zahnärzte) werden danach jeder für sich die volle Zuständigkeit in Teilprojekten bekommen.
[ More ]
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Despite the promise of healthcare IT to reduce medical errors and improve care, a just-published article by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund has found that “scores of reports on file with the Food and Drug Administration detail consequences to patients when an electronic medical record system fails” and “show that a central function of the record systems, known as computerized provider order entry, or CPOE, has been linked to instances in which patients died or suffered serious injuries.”
[ More ]
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As the healthcare industry continues to wean itself off of paper-based transactions, a report shows there were 191 million e-prescriptions in 2009, up from 68 million in 2008, a 181 percent increase.
[ More ]
