Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Emergency rooms fully equipped with EHRs have been credited with treating patients who eventually have shorter hospital stays than hospitals that have paper or basic EHRs, according to a new study.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The federal Health IT Policy Committee has endorsed a set of recommendations on when healthcare providers must obtain consent before exchanging patient heath records electronically with other clinicians, testing labs or health information exchange (HIE) networks.
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Lisa A. Gallagher, HIMSS Blog
“Last week, the Privacy and Security Tiger Team of the Health IT Policy Committee (a Federal Advisory Committee) provided its initial draft recommendations on the privacy and security topics and questions arising from electronic exchange of patient identifiable health information among known entities to meet Stage I of meaningful use — the requirements by which health care providers and hospitals will be eligible for financial incentives for using health information technology.
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rteston, Buzz e-sante
“Plusieurs applications iPhone sur l’anatomie ont été développées mais le plus souvent en anglais.
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Fred O'Connor, ComputerWorld
“Smartphones and tablet PCs are poised to play a greater role in health care as doctors and patients embrace the mobile Internet, panelists at a mobile health technology conference in Boston said last month.
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Victoria Lambert, Telegraph.co.uk
“Every morning, 62-year-old Eddie Beardsmore is greeted by beeps coming from a small black box on his hall table, followed by the message: “Time to take your readings!” Eddie, a former sales manager from Looe, Cornwall, suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which means his lung function is severely impaired.
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Vita Advisors
“The nation is plunging headlong into an era of expanded electronic medical records implementation and use. The benefits are said to be lower administrative and health costs and better quality.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Physiotherapists from NHS Suffolk have created an online system to help them assess patients and increase the speed of their treatment.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“No, you didn’t miss anything, there is no Government EHR. But should there be one? And if so, what should it look like?
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“Let me present you with a real-life example, an EHR ROI case study. The data shown on these graphs is real. It was developed by analyzing how many times a certain provider moves patient charts.
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Apiscam
“Me dio por pensar que el software como servicio atomizará el mercado de las aplicaciones y que empezará a haber mucho más long tail marketing de software.
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Lisa Gualtieri, KevinMD
“Stories can enhance health websites because they resonate with health information seekers, who find support and encouragement from the experiences of others like them. Two excellent examples are Weight Watchers’ Success Stories and Livestrong.org’s Survivorship Stories. Both sites include extensive libraries of well-written stories about people’s experiences losing weight and surviving cancer, respectively.
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“I wrote this overview of openEHR way back in 2007, and it was published in PulseIT (Sydney, Australia) [Internet], pp50-55, Issue 6, November 2007.
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Trading Markets
“Legacy Systems Enhanced Lawrence Carbonaro, Director of Purchasing and Patient Access at Memorial, says that the LifeMed patient smart card and software has enabled the hospital to maintain a zero-tolerance policy regarding patient record errors, while at the same time improving their business efficiency.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“With physician smartphone use nearing a saturation point, doctors are in an unfamiliar position when it comes to health information technology — demanding that others adapt to their needs, rather than the other way around.
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PerfectServe
“Hospitals’ efforts to adopt and integrate electronic medical records (EMRs) into their clinical practices will surely accelerate now that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have set data standards and certification criteria for EMRs’ “meaningful use.” These initiatives, however, should not be about qualifying for incentive payments. Hospital executives should view EMR systems as the backbone for integrated clinical communications necessary to reduce costs, eliminate inefficiencies and improve quality, patient safety and the coordination of care. They also should be aware of other fast ways to facilitate the sharing of information among physicians, nurses and other clinicians that do not require the “heavy lifting” of an EMR implementation. Such solutions will not only help hospitals begin to create a more integrated communications infrastructure, but also give them an early “win” in connectivity among their clinicians.
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Boockvar KS et al, Quality & Safety in Health Care, 2010
Background
Our objective was to examine the frequencies of medication error and adverse drug events (ADEs) at the time of patient transfer in a system with an electronic health record (EHR) as compared with a system without an EHR. It was hypothesised that the frequencies of these events would be lower in the EHR system because of better information exchange across sites of care.
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Manuel DG ert al, BMJ, 341
Disease registries and similar databases have facilitated epidemiological studies that contribute to our understanding of the natural course of disease and the value of medical and surgical interventions. These data have also allowed us to study the performance of health care, including patient safety and quality of care. However, there is an increasing possibility of inaccurate results arising from a shift in the type of data used to identify people with chronic diseases. In the past, registries for cancer and other diseases were laboriously created using active reporting from individual clinical records.
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Linda Stotsky, LSC Physician Business Growth Services
“I spoke with a hospital COO the other day. It seems the largest barrier to EMR adoption is physician resistance. Documentation time increased, docs are staying longer to finish notes, and change is slow.
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PR-USA.net
“The Waiting Room Solutions Cardiology EHR and PM system was created by cardiologists to ensure that the software fit the specialty’s specific needs. Among the many features offered are EKG integration, import of nuclear stress tests, and echocardiogram reports, hypertension and heart disease quality care and PQRI incentive reporting, standardized cardiology procedure notes, and cardiology document management.
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