Articles
Roni Zeiger, e-patients.net/Huffington Post
“When you have a doctor’s appointment, and she makes some notes and later formalizes them for your medical record, would you like read them? There’s been debate over the years about whether patients should read the notes that doctors write about them and their health issues — in academic circles, in a great Seinfeld episode where Elaine’s dermatologist won’t let her see what he wrote about her, and more recently in a New York Times piece that discusses the promising OpenNotes project.
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18 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Notes
Jamie Hanson, Lon's Article Directory
“Electronic Medical Records (EMR for short) can improve your healthcare facility in a variety of ways. Anything that your organization can do to provide better healthcare to patients is essential, and with EMR you can provide more efficient healthcare, as well as reduce errors and increase the effectiveness of doctor collaboration efforts.
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18 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Efficiency, emr
Matthew Weinstock, H&HN
“Ambitious but achievable.” Only time will tell if David Blumenthal’s prognosis of federal rules for meaningful use of health information technology is accurate. The truth is, at this early stage no one really knows, not even Blumenthal himself.
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18 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CPOE, Hospitals, Meaningful Use
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Preventing patient data breaches is cited as the number one priority for healthcare IT decision makers, but work remains for complying with security regulations, according to a national survey that examines IT trends in healthcare.
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada, United States | Tags: Health Information Technology, Security
EMR Daily News
“American patients are worried about not being able to access their own medical records when needed, according to a survey conducted by GfK Roper for Practice Fusion, the free, web-based Electronic Health Record company.
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Patient
Joel White, mobihealthnews
“Over the past decade the ability of even small medical practices to access the Internet using a broadband connection has given us an entirely new set of tools to be far more efficient in the backroom record-keeping of a practice, better able to bring high-tech diagnostics and treatments to rural areas;
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Broadband, Telemedicine
Laura Landro, WSJ Health Blog
“To help improve care for chronic diseases and other health conditions, researchers participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Project HealthDesign are asking patients to use smartphones and other devices to collect data about their health — known as observations of daily living, or ODLs — between doctor visits, today’s Informed Patient column reports.
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Children, Elderly, ODL, Tracking
Imprivata
“This North American survey is focused on identifying trends in the healthcare industry relating to securing patient information, the move to electronic medical records and the impact of clinician workflow on patient outcomes in today’s healthcare organizations.
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: Canada, United States | Tags: Confidentiality, Education, Health Information Technology, Incentives, Security, Workflow
PricewaterhouseCoopers
“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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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Technology, Meaningful Use
Tony Shaw, EContent
“Because computers can process information so much faster than people, semantic technologies for data-linking start to make the correct diagnosis possible in a much shorter period of time, and perhaps reducing months of uncertainty and pain to just a few days or even hours.
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: De-identification, Semantic
Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“A smart pill that can text a patient’s mobile phone if they forget to take their medication is to be trialled in the UK.
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Monitoring, Sensors, Smart Pill, SMS
Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal
“Project Health Design’s teams are integrating data collected by patients into personal health records so doctors can see patterns that might alert them to a health problem.
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Narrative, ODL, Patient, smartphone
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“One of the lesser discussed factors determining whether to adopt EHRs or not is the number of years that a physician who owns his or her practice has left before retirement.
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Physicians
Jacob Saulwick and Mark Metherell, Sydney Morning Herald
“General practice leader Rob Walters says he has been able to diagnose the skin ailments of far-flung relatives with the help of images sent by Skype or mobile phone – which he says highlights the potential of telemedicine.
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | Tags: GP, Privacy, Security, Telemedicine, Videoconferencing
CMIO
“Persuading influential medical centers to adopt EMRs helps speed adoption by their neighboring hospitals, according to the August issue of Management Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption
Paul Roemer, HealthSystemCIO
“There has been a lot of discussion among providers about patient experience management (PEM), some on social media, and even less on Social CRM (S-CRM). Seemingly missing from that discussion is a conversation addressing why those initiatives are so important.
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17 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Communication, Hospitals, Social Media
Anthony LaFauce, The Full Spectrum Blog
“WellDoc, a company focused on developing next generation medical tools, announced that the FDA has approved its DiabetesManager System. I can hear you now, “what’s the big deal? There are plenty of those on the market already.” The key to this new system is that it delivers real-time monitoring results to a person’s mobile phone.
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16 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As hospitals gear up to meet Stage 1 of the meaningful use requirements under the federal government’s electronic health record (EHR) incentives program, a new report concludes that EHRs will only be able to provide about a third of the data requirements for Stage 1 quality measures outlined in the final rule.
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16 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use, Quality
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“Patient Safety is the key reason for the adoption of electronic medical records. Even though the health care industry has been able to raise considerable doubts about the cost savings and efficiency gains of EMRs, the patient safety components of EMRs have stayed a very powerful argument in support of their adoption.
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16 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Patient Safety
Marc Holland, HealthSystemCIO
“In late June, it was reported that the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was bringing suit against the Rhode Island Department of Health, claiming that the rules adopted by DOH to establish a statewide HIE do not go far enough, nor are they explicit enough, to protect patient privacy.
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16 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Consent, Health Information Exchange, Opt out, Privacy
