Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to ramp up its use of telehealth. “It’s all about accessibility and reaching as many veterans as possible,” Ron Sandreth, operations manager for the community and rural health program at the VA hospital in Clarksburg, W. Va., tells the Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette.
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Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press
“Don’t be offended if your doctor writes that you’re SOB, or that an exam detected BS.
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CMIO
“It will take a while for clinicians to absorb the information in the 800-plus pages of the final rules for Stage 1 meaningful use of electronic healthcare information. It will take longer for the results of this rule to emerge. However, CMIOs weighing in on this far-reaching initiative already say they have mixed opinions of it.
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Millard WB. Annals of emergency medicine, 56(2)
Most American hospitals have been slow to adopt electronic health records (EHRs), despite widespread anticipation that these systems would improve both clinical performance and economic efficiency.
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EMR Daily News
“One of the biggest obstacles to sharing patient information electronically is that health care systems and providers use a wide range of incompatible IT platforms and software to create and store data in various formats. A new service – the Verizon Health Information Exchange – will soon be available via the “cloud” to address this challenge.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Several nonprofit health organizations across Wisconsin will receive grants totaling $1 million from the state’s Universal Service Fund (USF) Telemedicine program, Gov. Jim Doyle has announced.
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“A Health and Human Services Department advisory panel has taken the first steps to enabling people who are enrolled in federal and state health and social services programs to easily find out if they are eligible for benefits from other programs.
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PRNewswire
“Last week’s announcement of final guidelines for medical providers and EHR vendors has officially kicked off the national health IT transition. As part of the 2009 economic stimulus plan (ARRA), billions have been earmarked to incentivize the Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology in the US.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“Plans for a national Electronic Health Record in the Netherlands have been put on hold after the Dutch Senate voted to make major changes to the national programme.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“With the final meaningful use rules now a week old, and with the initial deadlines for stimulus money less than three months away, vendors are making their final pitch for that sweet, sweet stimulus cash.
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Alain Clergeot, La Santé dans la Cité
“Les rapporteurs concluent non sans humour : « La crise n’a finalement pas eu lieu, et c’est heureux ». Mais ils poursuivent immédiatement : « à l’évidence, les professionnels de santé et la population demandent un changement des règles ; celui-ci est aujourd’hui nécessaire pour obtenir l’adhésion de la population lorsque surviendra une pandémie grave ».
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“Five weeks ago we wrote about the start of the OpenNotes project, funded by Robert Wood Johnson Pioneer Portfolio. The year-long project is now rolling, and a new article today in the Annals of Internal Medicine captures the current landscape and explains the study’s goals and methods.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Health IT professionals say EHRs are their top priority, according to a survey by Embarcadero Technologies.
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María, Biblioteca Médica Virtual Blog
“Cuántas veces habremos comentado los problemas que se derivan de un paciente mal informado debido a Internet.
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Laura Landro, WSJ Health Blog
“Some doctors are taking an unusual new approach to communicate better with patients—they are letting them read the notes that physicians normally share only with each other.
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Delbanco T et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, 153(2)
Few patients read their doctors’ notes, despite having the legal right to do so. As information technology makes medical records more accessible and society calls for greater transparency, patients’ interest in reading their doctors’ notes may increase. Inviting patients to review these notes could improve understanding of their health, foster productive communication, stimulate shared decision making, and ultimately lead to better outcomes. Yet, easy access to doctors’ notes could have negative consequences, such as confusing or worrying patients and complicating rather than improving patient–doctor communication.
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CMIO
“Home monitoring with automatic daily surveillance can offer safe, early detection of cardiac events in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) compared with standard follow-up methods, according to a TRUST trial published online July 12 in Circulation.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“A Health and Human Services Department advisory panel has taken the first steps to enabling people who are enrolled in federal and state health and social services programs to easily find out if they are eligible for benefits from other programs.
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Rodney Kay, Healthcare Informatics Technology
“There is a lot of tax-payer money being thrown at electronic medical records lately. While the new emphasis on EHR’s is certainly welcome, some caution needs to be exercised. The subject news article from my friends at the Huffington Post Investigative Fund is talking about a new EHR in the delta of Mississippi, but then goes on to describe a telemedicine application to the EHR, and not the EHR itself.
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Deborah Lafky, Health IT Buzz
“With the passage of the HITECH Act, Congress made health IT security a top priority. ONC is committed to making electronic health information as secure as technically and humanly feasible.
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