Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Only 14 percent of U.S. non-military or veterans hospitals have met the proposed meaningful use requirement of 10 percent of orders being generated via computerized physician order entry technology, according to a new report from vendor research firm KLAS Enterprises.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released a final rule establishing a temporary electronic health records certification program under the HITECH Act.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“The campaign to replace the country’s paper medical files with interoperable electronic records is backed by the full force of the federal government, including tens of billions of dollars. The basic strategy is to entice and/or coerce the country’s 800,000 or so doctors to go electronic.
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Liz Tay, itnews
“Researchers evaluating the UK’s electronic health record system have found benefits of the now-suspended scheme to be “more modest than expected”.
The Summary Care Record (SCR) scheme was implemented from 2008 to April 2010 as part of the English Government’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
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Bruce Merlin Fried, iHealthBeat
“In recent months — through formal comments to the proposed “meaningful use” (MU) regulation, in articles in online health IT newsletters and blogs, in the halls of various conferences — there has been a continuous, anxious conversation as to whether the MU regulations, when finally promulgated, would be, simply, too much.
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Andis Robeznieks, ModernHealthcare
“At its annual House of Delegates meeting in Chicago this week, the American Medical Association debated several health information technology topics and decided it was too early to call on Congress to pass legislation regulating still-evolving and little-used personal health records.
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Peter Basch, Center for American Progress
“The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was included as a component of last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The HITECH Act includes the use of financial incentives and subsequent penalties to accelerate the adoption and optimal use of health IT such as electronic health records.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“This week’s health IT news brought both an air of optimism and a sobering outlook on electronic medical record (EMR) adoption.
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KevinMD
“Should you friend your doctor on Facebook?
It’s a question that’s gaining increasing relevance as Facebook increases its social networking dominance.
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Vickers AJ et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1)
BACKGROUND:
We propose a novel framework for management of cancer survivorship: electronic patient Self-Assessment and Management (SAM). SAM is a framework for transfer of information to and from patients in such a way as to increase both the patient’s and the health care provider’s understanding of the patient’s progress, and to help ensure that patient care follows best practice.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News Priming the Pump
“One of the many benefits expected from the implementation of new HIT is the potential for healthcare providers to “mine” health data in order to improve the overall level of healthcare services.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“While 8 in 10 Americans say that their physicians should have access to information contained in their electronic medical record, only 8% of people said an EMR is available to them but they don’t use it.
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Fran Sánchez, El cuaderno de bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“Hoy día es difícil concebir que algo no esté informatizado y nuestras historias clínicas no iban a ser menos. Aunque todavía seguimos dependiendo mucho de las historias en papel, no creo que exista ningún ente, público o privado, que no esté en el proceso de informatizar su información clínica (y la no clínica, claro).
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“GP practices in Birmingham have used text messaging to invite patients for vascular screening checks, generating a 44% response rate from patients.
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Alan Davies, Science Business
“Around the world, the idea of personalised healthcare, in which, broadly speaking, a combination of preventative, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures provide more precision to healthcare management and clinical outcomes – is gaining ground.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“The not-for-profit Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has announced the creation of two new work groups to develop certification criteria for electronic health-record systems to be used by practitioners specializing in oncology and in women’s health.
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Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“Consider the odd status of electronic medical records: Doctors are heatedly debating them, the Obama administration is pushing for them, but the general public, as it turns out, still doesn’t have a lot of knowledge about or experience with them.
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Uchino K et al, Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2010
Intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for acute ischemic stroke must be provided in an appropriate setting. The best way to provide thrombolysis in small community hospitals remains uncertain. Medical records were reviewed of tPA treatments at a stroke center between January 2002 and October 2005. The stroke center provides phone consultation for acute stroke to smaller hospitals in the region. Subjects were classified into 3 groups: tPA started at referring hospitals before transfer (treat and transfer group), tPA started at the stroke center after transfer (transfer and treat group), and the control group of patients who presented directly to the stroke center and received tPA (stroke center group). We recorded the patient and treatment characteristics, protocol deviations, symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), and in-hospital deaths. There were 133 patients in the treat and transfer group, 35 patients in the transfer and treat group, and 86 patients in the stroke center group.
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Øvretveit J et al, Health Policy, 2010
Research and citizens have noted failures in coordinating health and social services and professionals, and the need to address this issue to realize benefits from increasing specialisation. Different methods have been proposed and one has been structural integration of separate services within one organisation. This paper reports an empirical longitudinal study of the development of an integrated health and social care organisation in Sweden combining service provision, purchasing and political governance for a defined population.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Less than one in 10 American adults use electronic medical records or e-mail their doctor, according to a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll.
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