Articles
Detmer DE. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(4)
In the current issue of JAMIA, Friedman and Parrish have crafted an insightful and provocative call for the Population Health Record writ large. This paper contributes in an important way to the literature and appears at a propitious time in our nation’s health policy history. Furthermore, it is appropriate for JAMIA in that the AMIA Board first called for such a development in 1997.
[ More ]
23 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tags: Population health record
Lisa Fratt, Health Imaging
“The original silver bullet was endowed with mythical powers and provided the only means of slaying werewolves, witches and monsters. Today, healthcare is haunted by demons of a different ilk; spiraling costs and mediocre patient care are fodder for nightmares for physicians, policymakers and patients alike.
[ More ]
23 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA
Daniel Ghinn, Creation Interactive
“Earlier this year I wrote about how language barriers are creating a new digital health divide and I suggested that the single biggest barrier to successfully connecting patients online internationally is language.
[ More ]
23 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Digital Divide, Language, Physician-Patient Relationship
D. Kellus Pruitt, Medical Executive Post
“Recently, lawmakers complained that the federal criteria for “meaningful use” of eHRs – usage required before providers who risk purchasing electronic health record systems can be reimbursed – aren’t strict enough to justify the billions of dollars in incentive payments that the government promised physicians and hospitals.
[ More ]
23 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use
David Talbot, Technology Review
“Seventeen months after the U.S. stimulus law authorized billions to subsidize electronic health records (EHRs), 864 pages of rules for how physicians and hospitals must show “meaningful use” of the technology are finally set. Now comes the hard part: implementing the technology in a country where, by one estimate, only 17 percent of doctors use EHRs at all.
[ More ]
23 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Incentives, Meaningful Use, Medication Errors
Pauline W. Chen, The New York Times
“Their request seemed simple enough: the patient and his wife, both in their 70s, wanted a copy of what I’d written in their medical file. During their visit, I had watched them refer to a well-thumbed collection of doctors’ notes and medication lists, so when they asked for a copy of my note just before leaving, I assumed it would simply be added to the others.
[ More ]
23 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA
John, EMR and HIPAA
“Paul decided to stop by the post I did that referred to his comments on the skepticism around meaningful use.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use
John, EMR and EHR
“The AMA has finally weighed in on the meaningful use final rule and it’s not a glowing recommendation for meaningful use and the changes that were made.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Meaningful Use, Physicians
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) will collaborate with the World Health Organization (WHO) to harmonize WHO classifications and SNOMED CT to benefit health around the world.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Interoperability, SNOMED, Standards
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“At its monthly meeting held Wednesday, the HIT Policy Committee wrestled with patients’ rights to opt in or opt out of health information exchange.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Consent, Ethics, Health Information Exchange, Health Information Technology, Opt out
Mary John, MedicExchange
“CSC announces the CSC Meaningful Use Community, the first open and interactive online community for healthcare providers seeking to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records ( EHR ).
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Implementation, Meaningful Use, Online Communities
Mary John, MedicExchange
“Government incentives spur healthcare providers to focus on electronic records and data management, according to a survey by Embarcadero Technologies.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Certification, Health Information Technology, Implementation, Meaningful Use
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“What is most important – other than the obvious point that Medicare can’t seem to actually control its employees – is that the last four paragraphs reveal just how little has actually been achieved in the implementation of the Health Identifier Service, and how spectacularly expensive it seems to have been so far – for so little apparent progress.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | Tags: Health Information Technology, Identifiers
Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“The press release follows below. Not to steal any thunder here but look at what is being developed to work with the registry and PHR – bar codes. If you are a regular reader here you know what the focus is on my campaign for a bar coding system for recalls, drug identification and more.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Barcode, Implants, phr, registry
María Jesús Rubia, PESCA
“El pasado lunes 5 de julio el Departamento de Salud Torrevieja ha presentado un novedoso Portal de Salud, la última de sus herramientas de Tecnología de Información y Comunicación (TIC), puesta al servicio de los usuarios del área sanitaria y que trabaja en conexión con el sistema informático Florence, que gestiona toda la información generada por la asistencia sanitaria de los cerca de 200.000 habitantes protegidos.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Health 2.0, Health Information Technology, Hospitals, Portal
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“As we head into the next stage of EHR adoption, now that the meaningful use criteria have been finalized, it’s time for health IT advocates to start rallying their physician colleagues to get serious about implementing and deriving value from EHRs.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Connectivity
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Modern healthcare technology needs to communicate and share information with others. That seems like an obvious statement. However, this has not been the legacy of the health IT industry – historically, Electronic Health Records (EHR) have been built as large, all-inclusive enterprise systems designed to function within a closed network environment.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: HL7, Interoperability
Musings by Seref Arikan
“Wow! I do not know how I should feel about this. Heather Leslie of Ocean Informatics wrote on Twitter that MS is leaving the HIS market, and as you can read here, it is true.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: HIS, open standards
Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“Microsoft is to stop selling its Amalga Hospital Information System to new customers, the company will also cease development of the Amalga HIS product family.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Asia, UK | Tags: HIS
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“By the end of the year, HealthPartners, a health insurance provider, plans to roll out mobile applications to its 1.3 million subscribers thanks to a licensing deal with Toronto-based Diversinet for its MobiSecure platform.
[ More ]
22 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Insurance, smartphone
