Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) enacted in February 2009 authorized the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid to pay physicians, who demonstrate the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR), an incentive of up to $44,000, from 2011. The physicians unable to conform to these date lines are expected to face reductions in their Medicare payments.
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John Mack, Pharma Marketing Blog
“Last night I had the honor of hosting the #socpharm “Tweetchat” session, standing in for Eileen O’Brien (@EileenObrien; Siren Interactive) who is the founder and regular host of that Twitter discussion stream.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Why can’t I just take my Electronic Health Record (EHR) charts and move them from one system to another one? This seemingly-simple question has vexed builders of a national Health IT infrastructure, and leaves us with the dissatisfying answer of “it’s not that easy.”
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Chris Thorman, Software Advice
Calculating market share for the electronic health record (EHR) market is no easy task. There are over 300 software vendors, many market segments (consider: size of practice served, specialties services, inpatient/outpatient) and very “fuzzy” sources of data.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek
“The HIT Standards Committee — a federal advisory body created to guide the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology in its implementation of the HITECH Act — spent the initial part of its monthly meeting this week struggling with issues of communication, structure and capacity.
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Sandeep Grewal, KevinMD
“We as doctors and patients as well as medicine as a whole have evolved over time.
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Joyce Frieden, KevinMD
“Two new studies of electronic medical records (EMRs) have come to different conclusions: one found that they don’t save money or staffing time, but the other suggested that at least one part of EMR — electronic prescribing — does save lives.
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KevinMD
“Electronic medical records are being aggressively pushed by the government.
As most know, they’re pouring billions of dollars into the initiative, hoping the spur adoption among doctors and hospitals.
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Joseph-Williams N et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(2)
Background:
Web-based decision aids are known to have an effect on knowledge, attitude, and behavior; important components of informed decision making. We know what decision aids achieve in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), but we still know very little about how they are used and how this relates to the informed decision making outcome measures.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“One of my readers emailed me about a presentation he was looking at doing about EMR software and consumers. I was really intrigued by the idea of presenting on the benefits of an EMR to the consumer (Translation: Patients).
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Miguel, Salud con cosas
“En la época de la “infoxicación”, todos buscamos webs que agrupen la información y que la clasifiquen de una forma más comoda y nos la sirvan casi a nuestro gusto. Por eso, cuando encontramos algún recurso interesante, nos apetece rápidamente compartirlo con todos.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT awarded four Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) grants funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. One of the projects is being led by Professor Carl Gunter of the Department of Computer Science and the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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WHCC
Prof. Bjoern Bergh, Prof. of Medical Information Systems, University of Heidelberg; CIO/CTO, Heidelberg University Clinics; Vice President, ICMCC, discusses how personal health records can empower patients.
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Cristen Conger, Discovery News
“In 2008, a hospital employee at UCLA Medical Center was fired for leaking details of Farrah Fawcett’s cancer treatment.
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The Canadian Press
“More than 190 community pharmacies in Newfoundland and Labrador will be connected to a new medication information system this year.
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Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online
“While much of the national news coverage has focused on EHR (electronic health record) adoption/meaningful use and healthcare reform, perhaps the most significant IT challenge for healthcare providers over the next few years will be HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) 5010 and ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition) compliance.
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24-7PressRelease
“In 2011, doctors and hospitals will be able to tap $1.5 billion in financial incentives from the federal government to share records electronically. The purpose of this ARRA funding is to speed the computerization of medical records, permitting doctors near instant access to all the medical records, test results and drug prescriptions for their patients.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“Paul Roemer, a frequent and knowledgeable participant in the ongoing meaningful use debate, posed an interesting question on Twitter the other day. He tweeted, “If the cost of Meaningful Use is greater than the incentive check, at what point should you consider not meeting Meaningful Use?”
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Nancy Ferris, Government Health IT
“By early July, the Office of the National Coordinator will announce the winners of 11 contracts for developing a health information exchange framework based on a model originated by federal homeland security agencies for sharing sensitive information over the Internet.
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Matt Quinn, The Health Care Blog
“The usability of EHR systems, while recognized as a critical factor in the successful adoption, safe and effective use of these systems, has not historically received the same level of attention as software features, functions and technical requirements.
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