Susannah Fox, e-Patients.net
“Facebook has sparked a new debate about privacy and I think it’s time to bring it to health care.
What does it mean when millions of people flock to share/overshare information, even as Facebook’s default privacy settings have slowly become openness settings (but the company maintains radio silence)?
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Computerized Physician Order Entry systems (CPOE) is one of the elements of Meaningful Use, allowing physicians access to HITECH/ARRA stimulus incentive money beginning in 2011. The benefit of such systems in “bending the curve” of healthcare cost inflation has been documented, and was one of the motivators for including this criterion in Meaningful Use as well as in HHS Certification of Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Interoperability is a major part of the HITECH Act, the healthcare IT portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed in February of 2009. And according to Dale Wiggins, chief technology officer of Philips Healthcare Patient Care and Clinical Informatics, it all starts with modalities.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Ever notice how so many examples of how EHRs can improve care focus on diabetes?
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’ve seen a number of side comments on the challenges of Copy and Paste functions in an EMR. However, I’ve seen very few people really address the challenge that is copy and paste functions that are built into almost every program in the world.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“Only a third of primary care trusts are using social media to communicate with patients, according to a survey conducted by NHS Salford.
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Ravi Sharma, Healthcare IT News Priming the Pump
“The stated aim of the financial incentives offered for EHR adoption under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is to encourage “the use of certified EHR technology in a meaningful manner.”
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HES Magazine
“Despite widespread criticism of the National Programme for IT, a leading healthcare solutions provider said this week that well thought-out and properly implemented solutions would be key to helping the NHS in its efforts to cut costs.
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John Commins, HealthLeaders Media
“The Medical Group Management Association told HHS this week that new HIPAA disclosure requirements for electronic medical records are burdensome, unnecessary, costly, and may discourage physicians from adopting the new technology.
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Janine Budding, Medicalfacts
“Over ongeveer drie jaar is de gezondheidszorg in Nederland totaal vernieuwd en op moderne leest geschoeid. Het internet speelt daarbij een vooraanstaande rol.
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e-Health Europe
“A new study by Intel indicates that the vast majority of healthcare decision makers believe telehealth will transform healthcare in the next 10 years.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“When Janel Wood’s 9-year-old son recently began experiencing migraines, the working mother decided to try a new company health care program that allowed her to communicate with a doctor through videoconferencing, voice over IP, and instant messaging.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Health information linked to patients and tracked over time can provide insight into the relationship between interventions and the outcomes of care, according to Mark McClellan M.D., PhD, Director, of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution. As moderator for a panel discussion on “Making Enhanced Use of Health Information” held on May 14th at Brookings, he stressed that today the major momentum is to use electronically collected data not only for clinical activities but also to use the data to help consumers and the general population.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Collaborative efforts can be a positive factor enabling rural communities to have access to high quality healthcare services as reported in April’s HRSA report. The report “Effective Collaboration between Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and Federally Qualified Health Centers” (FQHC) was published by the Office of Rural Health Policy and pointed out many reasons as to why CAH’s and FQHC’s need to develop collaborative efforts in rural communities.
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Kulshreshtha A et al, International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, 2010
Remote monitoring (RM) of homebound heart failure (HF) patients has previously been shown to reduce hospital admissions. We conducted a pilot trial of ambulatory, non-homebound patients recently hospitalized for HF to determine whether RM could be successfully implemented in the ambulatory setting. Eligible patients from Massachusetts General Hospital (n=150) were randomized to a control group (n=68) or to a group that was offered RM (n=82).
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“With projects underway in every state to develop and expand health information exchanges, a handful of common themes–most notably consumer and healthcare provider buy-in and long term sustainability–are challenges for many of these efforts.
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Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“We have pie chart to look at here. The red means zero. The other colors break down the category of where doctors are with medical records and look at how many have the fully functional EHR – 6%.
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John Halamka, MedCity News
“I’m an advisor to the Dartmouth Trustworthy Information Systems for Healthcare (TISH) project, a National Science Foundation funded effort to address emerging areas of information security in healthcare. Specifically, TISH will examine novel approaches to the protection of clinical information while ensuring clinicians can access the information they need when and where they need it.
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Frank Irving, Advance
“On May 3, 2010, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) on the provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act that expand the requirements for accounting of disclosures of patients’ protected health information (PHI) to include disclosures made through an electronic health record (EHR) for treatment, payment and health care operations purposes.
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“Practice Fusion announces today the release of a fully-integrated module specific to psychiatry in an expansion of its free, web-based Electronic Medical Record system. Mental health providers can effectively run an entire practice from one free, secure application and qualify themselves for federal EMR stimulus money.
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