Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Researchers Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, wrote their recently released book, Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, to highlight common themes to EMR adoption barriers that they were seeing in their work with clients and to provide a basic methodology for breaking through those barriers.
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Shawn Rhea, ModernHealthcare
“Before electronic health-record systems can realize their potential to transform clinical-trial recruitment, important patient privacy concerns need to be addressed, industry analysts say.
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Doherty G. et al, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2010
Ethnographic approaches to study of work in the field have been widely adopted by HCI researchersas resources for investigation of work settings and for requirements elicitation. Although the value of fieldwork for design is widely recognised, difficulties surround the exploitation of fieldwork data within the design process. Since not every development project can support or justify large-scale field investigation, the issue of how to build on previous work within a domain is particularly important.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Dr. Steven Waldren is director of the Center of Health Information Technology at the American Academy of Family Physicians, a group that represents about 94,000 family physicians and medical students. He’s closely following the government’s effort to craft a definition of what constitutes the meaningful use of electronic health records and prepare to kick off the federal incentive program to get doctors using EHRs.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Residents of Buena Vista, Lamar, Leadville and Del Norte, Colo. are among the latest wave of communities nationwide that have recently gained access to innovative telehealth services.
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What is Meaningful?
“In this video, Reanna Thompson, chief nursing officer of Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, shares a nursing perspective on electronic medical records and CPOE with the editor of www.whatismeaningful.com.
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Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and its focus on EHR systems, public health has an unprecedented opportunity to leverage the information, technologies and standards enabled by this effort to support critical public health functions such as alerting and surveillance.
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Mike, eHealth Musings
“According to an article posted June 18th on ModernHealthcare.com, the delegates decided that “it was too early to call on Congress to pass legislation regulating still-evolving and little-used personal health records.”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“There are quite a number of hospitals that have embarked on health IT projects years ago, and they have a big advantage over those hospitals that are just now building their roadmap for the implementation and adoption of EMRs and EHRs.
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Smart Healthcare
“Microsoft’s free HealthVault service, which is already available in the US, opened on 22 June 2010 to UK users, offering specific functions for tracking blood pressure, weight, general fitness and family health, using Microsoft’s MyHealthInfo.
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Gareth Iacobucci, Pulse
“GP practices are leaving themselves open to breaches in patient confidentiality through their handling of paper records, with security concerns more common than with electronic systems, an assessment reveals.
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Science Daily
“Researchers at the University of Southampton are developing intelligent medical sensors which can be worn by patients to monitor their symptoms and which will alert GPs if medical intervention is needed.
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Donna Cusano, Telecare Aware
‘While this was authored by someone in legal practice for primarily alternative medicine (or, as the writer puts it, ‘the intersection of law, business, health and spirituality’), it’s an interesting read (for the US) on how 19th century law is controlling 21st century healthcare technology.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have proposed rules to encourage the implementation and practice of superior health information technology (HIT) and meaningful use of electronic records (EHR).
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Ashley Miller, The Healthcare IT Guy
“Despite the growing acceptance of digital signatures among Healthcare organizations, many are still left in the dark. Providers are so accustomed to using paper for signature approval processes that they don’t recognize the disadvantages of doing so.
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Apiscam
“El Colegio de Médicos de Madrid (ICOMEM) ha denuciado “las carencias” del funcionamiento del sistema de información centralizado AP-Madrid que está previsto que se implante en toda la red de atención primaria madrileña antes de finalizar el año.
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Powers P. ElectronicHealthcare, 9(1)
On April 1, 2008, the Government of New Brunswick announced The Provincial Health Plan 2008–2012, Transforming New Brunswick’s Health-care (Government of New Brunswick 2008). The health plan included an ambitious province-wide reorientation and restructuring of healthcare delivery, governance and funding under the direction of the health ministry.
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John Coulthard, Microsoft
“Today, we try to control just about every aspect of our lives. Technology, software, mobile devices and a culture of individual empowerment means we have greater choice over how, when and where we work and live. We can decide to bank at 3am in our pyjamas, choose between a myriad of coffee shops on the high street, compare prices online, and engage with retailers and service providers through a huge variety of channels and applications.
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Paul Christopher Webster, CMAJ News
“Canadian hospitals lag behind their United States counterparts in the use of electronic medical record systems, according to new data which also indicate an increasing technology gap between large and small hospitals that could dramatically impede efforts to modernize and integrate health systems within the provinces.
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Pennlive
“Local hospitals say they’re on target to reap the benefits — and avoid the penalties — associated with the federal government’s goal of creating electronic health records for Americans by 2014.
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