Ken Terry, BNET
“Back in 2004, President George W. Bush announced a grand plan that would guarantee all Americans an electronic health record by 2014. When Barack Obama was running for President, he reaffirmed that goal.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“It’s almost 2011. Do you know where your electronic health records are?
The EHR news was voluminous this week, starting with the debut of a new EHR safety reporting system.
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Weinstock RS et al, Age and Ageing, 2010
Objective:
to examine the effects of the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) telemedicine intervention and pedometer use on physical activity (PA) and impairment in older adults with diabetes.
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Medical News Today
“Dr. Josh Makower, one of America’s leading med-tech entrepreneurs, led a study that details how patients in Europe are getting access to new therapies an average of two years before patients in the United States due to regulatory challenges at the FDA.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I must admit that the following question is one that I don’t have a very good answer to. However, I’ll offer what I know and hopefully the readers of the site can also chime in with their thoughts in the comments of this post.
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Mangalmurti SS et al, N Engl J Med, 363(21)
EHRs can improve the quality of care and reduce medical-liability risks; this review includes a discussion of the malpractice-liability implications of computerized order entry, clinical-decision support, electronic messaging with patients, and the transition to EHRs.
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Richard Reece, KevinMD
“If I may use bureaucratic parlance, EHRs aren’t “meaningful” to clinicians. This may change as EHR vendors, doctors, hospitals, and IT consultants gather at the $27 billion EHR government trough, but it will remain slow because economic and health reform uncertainties.
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CMIO
“Telemonitoring of heart failure patients did not improve outcomes and researchers say the results indicate the importance of a thorough, independent evaluation of disease-management strategies before their adoption, according to the Tele-HF study reported at the American Heart Association (AHA) conference in Chicago this week, and simultaneously published online Nov. 16 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Insider
“Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation has become the first NHS trust to go live with an electronic patient record system from Alert Life Sciences, E-health Insider can exclusively reveal.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“The author of a study of the personal health record portal HealthSpace has attacked the Department of Health’s response to the research.
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James Kendrick, GigaOM
“Mobile healthcare is poised for major progress through incorporating technology, but a new study shows the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is negatively impacting this process in general. Companies trying to leverage technology in healthcare are finding that once the FDA gets involved, it becomes a time-consuming, expensive process.
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Josh Makower, Aabed Meer, Lyn Denend, Stanford University
“Over the past few years, the manner in which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is executing its authority over the regulation of medical devices in the U.S. has been called into question. While some have claimed that current regulatory requirements are lax and harming patients, independent analysis has demonstrated that the current system does an exceptional job of protecting patients.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“A recent report in the Annals of Internal Medicine on the characteristics of prescriptions that are abandoned at the pharmacy raise the question of (1) how to ensure that people actually pick up their prescriptions, and (2) how to make sure that people actually take the medications that are prescribed. What role does modern Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology play in this question?
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Cindy Shiner, allAfrica.com
“The use of mobile technology to help improve health in both the developed and developing world is rapidly gaining momentum. A recent summit on mobile health technology, or mHealthSummit, was recently held in Washington, DC, drawing some 2,500 participants.
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Harlan Krumholz, Forbes
“What happens to patients after they leave the hospital is becoming a national focus for health care organizations. We have discovered that patients return to the hospital at a distressingly high rate – among those who are hospitalized for heart failure, almost one in four of them end up in the hospital again within 30 days. The health care reform law has added economic incentives for hospitals to reduce re-hospitalization rates.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Yet another cautionary signal on the design and content of personal health records: a research team led by Trisha Greenhalgh reports (in the British Medical Journal) a dramatic gulf between the expectations of the business case for England’s HealthSpace and actual take-up.
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GAO
“IDSs in GAO’s sample reported that using electronic health records (EHR), operating health insurance plans, and employing physicians all support strategies to improve patient care. An EHR contains patient and care information, such as progress notes and medications. Some IDSs said that using EHRs supports their patient care strategies such as care coordination, disease management, and use of care protocols by increasing the availability of individual patient and patient population data and by improving communication among providers. IDSs also reported that operating a health insurance plan can support patient care strategies by providing to the IDS both financial resources, such as savings from reducing avoidable hospitalizations for health insurance plan members, and data on plan members.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“A new study to better understand what prevents people from using information technology to help them manage their health and care has found that few people have heard of three major NHS health information websites.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“I read an interesting column about an octogenarian woman who lived by herself, despite multiple chronic conditions including congestive heart failure, arthritis, gout and glaucoma.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Patients have found the government’s personal health record project HealthSpace neither useful nor easy to use and only a tiny percentage have so far signed up for it, according to a study published today.
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