Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“The federally chartered Health Information Technology Policy Committee received from its privacy and security “tiger team” a list of policy recommendations on the use of electronically stored and shared patient information Wednesday.
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Medical News Today
“In expectation of expansive new federal spending on electronic medical records, technology firms are expanding their health care businesses, Politico reports.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Health Industry Group Purchasing Association and the Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management are asking federal officials to consider adoption of two identification standards used in the health care supply chain.
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Joyce Frieden, MedPage Today
“Specialties such as ophthalmology and surgery are not well served by the new “meaningful use” regulations for providers using health information technology, according to a member of the HIT Policy Committee at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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David Contento, ModernHealthcare
“I would like to step away from the standards for a moment and focus on what I thought was the overall intent of the “Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Electronic Health Record Incentive Program” as a vehicle to enhance the quality, safety and efficiency of care by encouraging the adoption of electronic medical records by physicians and hospitals.
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Ideaworks
“Cancer patients experience many symptoms, but pain and depression are two of the most prevalent. Unfortunately, it’s all too easy for them to go unrecognised and untreated, especially if the patients are in rural or hard to reach locations.
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Lin A et al, AJR, 195(1)
OBJECTIVE.
Electronic medical record (EMR) systems permit integration of contextual nonimaging EMR data into examination interpretation; however, the extra effort required to search and review these nonradiologic data are not well characterized. We assessed the gross frequency and pattern of EMR usage in the interpretation of diagnostic CT and MRI examinations.
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PWC
“The government has decided that electronic health records (EHRs) form the asphalt of tomorrow’s information health highway, and it has defined meaningful use (MU) as the master plan to ensure that the highway is effective and systematic.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“This week Cisco announced that it has joined with OneCommunity, a nonprofit broadband service provider in northern Ohio, to provide Cisco technologies for projects in healthcare, education, and technology.
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Gary Gottlieb and Thomas Lee, HealthAffairs Blog
“Partners HealthCare’s clinical and information system leaders are still poring over and absorbing the details of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) program for Meaningful Use of certified interoperable electronic health record technology by the nation’s hospitals and physicians.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Physician adoption of smartphones is experiencing exponential growth, according to “Point of Care Communications for Physicians,” a new study from Spyglass Consulting Group.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“Over the last couple of years there have been a couple of issues I have been repeating time and again. Two articles this week showed that my emphasis and endurance were correct.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“When do regulations get in the way of real progress?
That’s a time-honored question in many political debates, and at least one observer is raising a variation of it in response to the recently released Meaningful Use rules.
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Andy Oram, O'Reilly Radar
“The history and accomplishments attributed to VistA, the Veterans Administration’s core administrative software, mark it as one of the most impressive software projects in history. Still, lots of smart people in the health care field deprecate VistA and cast doubt that it could ever be widely adopted. Having spent some time with people on both sides, I’ll look at their arguments in this blog, and then summarize other talks I heard today at the Open Source Convention health care track.
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Telecare Aware
“This interview with Barry Chaiken, M.D., chief medical officer of Imprivata network security and former chair of HIMSS, is unsettling for several reasons.
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Nuria FeSalud, PESCA
“Alejandro Jadad cree que el médico ya no puede dar la espalda a las nuevas tecnologías. Lea la entrevista íntegra en La nueva sanidad y los nuevos pacientes en la Web 2.0,
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Apiscam
“El informe sobre el proyecto piloto de Historia Clínica Digital afirma que el intercambio de datos clínicos entre profesionales sanitarios a través de este sistema es posible. Así lo expuso el Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social al Consejo Interterritorial del Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS), que revisó las conclusiones del estudio.
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Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“The eHealth Initiative (eHI) released a new report entitled “The State of Health Information Exchange in 2010: Connecting the Nation to Achieve Meaningful Use.” The report identifies significant growth in the industry, as well as rising concerns related to new government policies, and an increased focus on patients.
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Health Imaging
“Enhancing the EHR to consolidate information for comprehensive immunosuppressive medication review following liver transplant was associated with fewer rejection episodes and fewer toxicity events, and it decreased costs, according to a study published in this month’s Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.
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Park ES et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(4)
OBJECTIVE:
Immunosuppressive therapy following transplantation, if not managed well, can lead to increased drug toxicity or rejection episodes. We investigated whether use of an automated clinical management system in our liver transplant program would improve clinical outcomes in managing transplant recipients’ immunosuppressive medications.
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