Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“With the final rule on meaningful use of electronic health-record systems out, there’s one fewer item on the federal government’s checklist for implementing the EHR subsidy program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Any member of a customer-loyalty program at a grocery store chain has likely noticed that, at the end of a transaction, the register spits out coupons for products he or she uses routinely. That’s not a coincidence.
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Ed Silverman, Pharmalot
“No bad jokes, please. But 59 percent of physicians now own a smartphone and 17 percent say they use their devices to handle e-detailing, regardless of their age.
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John, EMR and EHR
“I got an email announcing the new HP EHR initiative called EHReady. I was really interested to hear what HP was working on in the EMR industry since DELL’s has a number of EMR initiatives.
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Jeff Byers, CMIO
“Most clinicians know the adoption of health IT is where the world is heading, said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), during an interview with CMIO shortly after ONC and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rules on meaningful use requirements and EHR certification.
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David Blumenthal, Healthcare IT News
“Last week, we took great steps forward in bringing America’s health records into the 21st century. Widespread and meaningful use of fully functional electronic health record systems combined with a robust infrastructure for broad-based health information exchange can improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care for all Americans.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“Mobile Health – the 2 big deals – Kaiser Permante’s Tim Kieschnick ( @timiti ) posts about the most valuable aspects of mobile health.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“Last week, the HealthPartners Research Foundation announced that it had received a $3.7 million grant from the NIH to develop and implement an electronic health record-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Since the Final Meaningful Use and Standards Rules were released last week, many people have emailed me questions, which I’d like to share generally. My blog is not reviewed by ONC or CMS, so these answers are my own opinion.
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Caiata-Zufferey M et al, Qualitative Health Research, 20(8)
A growing number of patients search for medical information on the Internet. Understanding how they use the Internet is important, as this might impact their health, patient-practitioner roles, and general health care provision. In this article, we illustrate the motives of online health information seeking in the context of the doctor-patient relationship in Switzerland. We conducted semistructured interviews with patients who searched for health information online before or after a medical consultation. Findings suggest that patients searched for health information online to achieve the goals of preparing for the consultation, complementing it, validating it, and/or challenging its outcome.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Seventy-four percent of healthcare IT professionals reported that their existing information on meaningful use and electronic health record certification was “adequate” and that their technical implementation questions have been answered, according to a new survey.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Simulations of computerized physician order entry found a large potential for the systems to miss alerting doctors to medication errors, according to a study by the Leapfrog Group, an employer-backed organization that rates hospitals on patient safety.
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Chris Silva, amednews
“The final “meaningful use” rule for electronic medical record adoption gives physicians and hospitals some flexibility in meeting certain objectives to qualify for billions in federal incentives.
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Eric, Classical Values
“The most personal of personal information about you — your health records — will soon be online, in the form of what the government calls an “EHR” (short for “Electronic Health Record”):
New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year–must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“The regulators have completed their work. CMS has defined how you should use technology in your practice or hospital (Meaningful Use) and technical requirements for EHRs have been finalized. CMS and ONC have removed all ambiguity regarding Government financial assistance to those purchasing EHRs, and ONC certified EHRs will start appearing shortly.
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Gregg Alexander, IHIPP
“By now, most of you know I’m a small town pediatrician in private practice with an IT department consisting of me. (Not to take anything away from the great job my wonderful EHR VAR support people do, but their 1,000 mile reach has its limitations.)
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Rebecca Smith, Telegraph.co.uk
“Doctors in Birmingham have found that 10 per cent of the records that have been uploaded so far contained out-of-date information including errors on current medication patients are taking or drugs they are allergic to.
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The Medical News
“Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance but much remains to be done to address the various issues raised by healthcare consumers regarding privacy and security and the providers’ perspective of regulatory compliance.
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El Médico Interactivo
“La Historia Clínica Electrónica estará implantada en todos los centros de Atención Primaria de Logroño este lunes, día 19 de julio, si bien habrá que esperar hasta finales de año para que este sistema informático denominado ‘SELENE AP’ se extienda al resto de los centros de atención primaria de La Rioja.
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El Médico Interactivo
“La consejera de Sanidad y Consumo, María Ángeles Palacios, ha explicado que “la Telemedicina debe afrontarse de forma coordinada y conjunta para lograr que el sistema informático general sea ágil”.
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