Suzanne MacFarland, Clinical Correlations
“There is a stranger in the clinic room, and it is not your patient. This stranger is a multifaceted, opinionated entity with likely conflict-of-interest. This new acquaintance has already spoken to your patient and influenced the direction of this visit in the form of health statistics, symptom explanations, and feared complications.
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Jonathan D. Rockoff, The Wall Street Journal
“Computerized patient records could be used to improve lax reporting of serious drug side effects, the results of a small study suggest.
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Linder JA et al, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 2010
Purpose
Physicians in the United States report fewer than 1% of adverse drug events (ADEs) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but frequently document ADEs within electronic health records (EHRs). We developed and implemented a generalizable, scalable EHR-based system to automatically send electronic ADE reports to the FDA in real-time.
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Ärzte Zeitung
“Schnell muss es mit der Diagnose gehen, wenn ein Patient mit Schlaganfallsymptomen ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert wird. Doch gerade auf dem Land können viele Kliniken nicht auf ausreichend Fachwissen von Experten zugreifen.
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Victoria Lambert, Telegraph.co.uk
“Dr Google, Dr Finlay or your general practitioner? According to recent research, Britons are overwhelmingly choosing to and out about health matters by looking on the internet.
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The Medical News
“GE Healthcare has successfully linked its electronic medical records (EMR) solution with several non-GE inpatient systems, providing a single view of the patient record that will go beyond the requirements of meaningful use.
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John, EMR and EHR
“My previous post about the RECs possible failure has brought on some really in depth discussion on the topic of RECs and the challenges and opportunities they face.
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rteston, Buzz e-sante
“L’association Asthme et Allergies lance une nouvelle plateforme interactive pour permettre aux patients et à leur entourage de s’exprimer sur les différents aspects de la maladie.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A handful of hospitals and physician groups in the Bloomington, Ind., area are in various stages of EMR implementation. Those who are live are relaying the benefits of having patient information at the point of care.
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Emery P. Dalesio, AP
“Starting next year, dozens of states will begin knitting together databases to watch prescription drug abuse, from powerful painkillers to diet pills.
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to expand its use of information technology and telecommunications – including mobile and landline phones and video conferencing – to deliver healthcare to aging veterans and others who suffer from chronic conditions, according to senior telehealth officials.
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Hartmut Wiehr, CIO
“Immer mehr Menschen informieren sich im Web über medizinische Themen. Dagegen nehmen sie Angebote wie Internet-Diagnose und -behandlung nicht so gern wahr. Viele sehen darin eine Entmenschlichung der Medizin.
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Kwame Ahene, RememberItNow
“In the 21st Century, technology has become commonplace in all areas of our lives. For instance, during a typical weekend morning ritual, I check my phone for any missed calls, check and respond to my e-mail, then text my friends to see if they want to play basketball later on in the day.
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Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments are considering creating a joint electronic health record (EHR) system as one of many options, a top VA official said today.
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Cristina Mouriño, Médica Extremadura
“El subdirector de Gestión Farmacéutica del Servicio Extremeño de Salud (SES) ha analizado para Redacción Médica el desarrollo de la receta electrónica en la comunidad.
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors
“The CMA is advocating for a rebalancing of healthcare technology investment and a bottom-up approach to interoperability and connectivity. Canada Health Infoway’s top-down model won’t create a workable, data-sharing network for doctors at the grass-roots level for many years, says Bill Pascal (pictured), the CMA’s chief technology officer.
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors
“The CMA’s new president, Dr. Jeff Turnbull (pictured), is leading the charge for faster deployment of physician IT systems. “There’s no question that EMRs are the fundamental piece on which the healthcare systems of the future will be built. But we’ve got to get going on this. To date, the investments made in EMR have not led to outcomes that anyone would consider satisfactory,” says Turnbull.
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Castillo V et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1)
Background
The health care sector is an area of social and economic interest in several countries; therefore, there have been lots of efforts in the use of electronic health records. Nevertheless, there is evidence suggesting that these systems have not been adopted as it was expected, and although there are some proposals to support their adoption, the proposed support is not by means of information and communication technology which can provide automatic tools of support. The aim of this study is to identify the critical adoption factors for electronic health records by physicians and to use them as a guide to support their adoption process automatically.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“As if putting medication histories and care plans into EMRs weren’t causing enough consternation for doctors and nurses nationwide, wait until you hear what’s coming down the pike.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“For the first time, public health information has been transmitted using the National Health Information Network.
The Regenstrief Institute, a health care research organization affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine that has been a major contributor to the design of the NHIN, sent the public health data on behalf of the Indiana State Dept. of Health.
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