Dave deBronkart, KevinMD
“The opening anecdote of the e-patient white paper tells of a patient who impersonated a doctor in 1994, to get his hands on an article about an operation he was about to have. He got busted. Two years later episode 139 of Seinfeld had something similar – Kramer impersonates a doctor to try to get Elaine’s medical record.
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GeeksGab
“The economy has been in a recessionary trend for more than a year now. Whilst the economic conditions are challenging, the insurance companies are applying a squeeze on physicians to accept lower reimbursements. Funding by way of donations from private contributions is also reducing thereby adversely impacting availability of cash to implement an EMR / EHR system.
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Health News Gate
“This week’s New England Journal of Medicine offers two perspectives on the EHR. David Blumenthal, the Obama administration’s lead EHR advocate, and Marilyn Tavenner talk about “meaningful use” regulations for EHRs, while Surgeon General Regina Benjamin tells how she became an EHR believer after her rural clinic was first washed away by a hurricane and then burned down.
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Ken Alltucker, The Arizona Republic
“Patients treated at hospital emergency rooms that use all-digital-records systems are more likely to have shorter stays than at hospitals with paper or basic digital-records systems, according to a study by an Arizona State University professor.
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Chris Thorman, Healthcare IT News
“One of the major goals of the federal government’s push for nationwide electronic medical record adoption is to create an information network where “health data can flow freely, privately, and securely to the places where they are needed.” So far, this is proving to be a challenge for the nation’s hospitals and doctors.
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Sheetal Dube, User Experience Blog
“Personal Health Records, or PHRs, are health records that are initiated and maintained by a patient. Government incentives to promote adoption and “meaningful use” of EHRs (Electronic Health Records) by physicians has also raised the healthcare community’s interest in online PHRs such as Google Health and Microsoft Vault.
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Ideaworks
“The development of anytime, anywhere online access to patient data has taken a step forward in China with a new partnership between IBM and a leading IT provider in the country. Big Blue and the Beijing Goodwill Information Technology company have launched an electronic cardiogram management system that allows doctors to access patients’ heart data over a Wi-Fi connection using a mobile device. It is hoped that improved access will help doctors cut the huge number of Chinese people who die each year from the country’s biggest killer.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“In a letter to Dr. David Blumenthal, the Department of Health and Human Services’ national coordinator for health information technology, several preliminary recommendations have been made that set the stage for healthcare delivery organizations to address privacy and security concerns when they electronically exchange patient health information to meet stage 1 meaningful use requirements.
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EMR Daily News
“Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) report that physicians who use an automated, electronic medical record (EMR) tracking system to follow-up on patients with an abnormal Pap test could increase the number of women who achieved diagnostic resolution and have women achieve resolution in less time than using traditional methods. These findings appear in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“The patients at hospitals with the most advanced type of electronic medical records are likely to spend 22.4 percent less time in the emergency room than at other hospitals, a new study from the W.P.Carey School of Business at Arizona State University shows.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek
“Devan McGraw and Paul Egerman, chair and co-chair, respectively, of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health IT Policy Committee’s privacy and security team, entered the full committee’s August meeting looking for approval of the letter and recommendations they put together over the summer. And while they got that approval in the end, it was only after more than 30 minutes of contentious debate, led on the other side by Neal Calman, MD, president and CEO of the Institute for Family Health.
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Maria Cheng, AP News
“For Africans wondering whether the malaria drugs they’ve bought are real, there may soon be a quick way of finding out: sending a text message.
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Deborah Gage, ZDNet
“Stanford medical school is giving iPads to all its new incoming students this fall in order to cut down on paper costs.
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John K. Higgins, E-Commerce Times
“A US$30 billion information technology market is hard to pass up. That’s why the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) program to invest that huge amount of money in health records technology has received a lot of attention in the IT vendor community. That’s normal.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“A recent article in Fortune magazine describes how “medical homes” – described as a “common sense” ground-up improvement in health care delivery – can save states hundreds of millions of dollars in health care costs. In Illinois alone, the 2009 total of savings in state-funded health care costs was around $140 million.
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Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld.co.nz
“A “tiger team” that advises the federally charted Health IT Policy Committee will submit a list of recommendations on Thursday for ensuring the privacy and security of personally identifiable health information in Health Data Exchanges .
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has finally released the certification rules that will prove meaningful use and allow delivery of that sweet, sweet stimulus cash.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“A federally chartered advisory work group charged in June with devising recommendations on privacy and security policies to support the government’s electronic health-record system subsidy program presented today its near-final list of guidelines to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee.
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Josh Taylor, ZDNet.com.au
“Accessing your personal electronic health record via an online portal in 2012 will be just like using online banking, according to Health Minister Nicola Roxon.
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CMIO
“The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a set of approved procedures for testing information technology systems that work with EHRs.
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