Articles
Häyrinen K, Saranto K. MEDINFO 2010
The purpose of this study is to describe and discuss physicians’ and nurses’ documentation of the patient’s needs assessment in electronic health records (EHR) in the neurological care setting. Both physicians and nurses collect, record and interpret data during patient care episodes. Assessment of patient’s need for care and treatment is an important part of the care process. Planning, implementation and outcome assessment of the care process are based on needs assessment data. The data of this study consist of 48 neurological medical narratives and nursing care plans. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Finland | EHR: EHR, EHR Finland | Tags: Documentation, Medical Informatics, Narrative, Neurology, Nursing Informatics
Hoerbst A et al, MEDINFO 2010
Quality assurance is a major task with regard to Electronic Health Records (EHR). Currently there are only a few approaches explicitly dealing with the quality of EHR services as a whole. The objective of this paper is to introduce a new Meta-Model to structure and describe quality requirements of EHRs. This approach should support the transnational quality certification of EHR services. The Model was developed based on interviews with 24 experts and a systematic literature search and comprises a service and requirements model.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tags: Quality
eHealthServer.de
“Die Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY), eine Organisation für den regionalen Austausch von Gesundheitsdaten, hat den Umstieg auf InterSystems HealthShare™ erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Die Lösung von InterSystems, dem internationalen Marktführer bei Software für ein vernetztes Gesundheitswesen, bildet den Kern der Health-Information-Exchange-Plattform (HIE) der HIXNY.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange
PHYSorg
“Personal health records have great potential to help patients manage their health, but technology needs to be designed with the patient in mind – which means doing more than helping patients access health information, according to an editorial by two Virginia Commonwealth University family medicine physicians published in the Jan.19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Technology, Patient Centric, phr
Krist AH, Woolf SH. JAMA, 305(3)
The health information technology movement focuses much of its energy on the use of electronic medical records by clinicians, but the use of information technology by patients carries equal promise. Outside of health care, the public routinely uses computers and smart phones to access information and perform tasks with a click of a button.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Education, emr, health-information-system, Patient Centric
Adrian Gropper, The Health Care Blog
“Interoperability is front and center, again. Stage 1 of HITECH was about health records for doctors. Stage 2 is about interoperability. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report is all about interoperability.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Interoperability, Patient Centric
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to develop a clearer set of technical descriptions for establishing the standard clinical document formats for exchanging summary information as patients move across settings of care.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Standards, summary-care-records
Senior Housing News
“The need for caregivers to stay connected to love ones and service providers for knowledge and support continues to be critical according to a new study by the National Alliance for Caregiving and UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Family Caregiver, Healthcare Technology
NAC/UnitedHealthcare
This report describes the results of a study conducted to examine family caregivers’ receptivity to technology. In particular, the study assessed how helpful 12 technologies would be in supporting caregivers or helping them provide care. These 12 technologies can be viewed as characteristic of the types of technologies that might be attractive to technology‑using family caregivers.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Family Caregiver, Healthcare Technology
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality plans to identify the barriers that Medicaid providers face in trying to meet the requirements for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) in order to qualify for incentive payments.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use, Provider
Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“With respondents representing organizations ranging from small hospitals and midsize health systems to physician organizations, this survey shows significant diversity and disparity in attitudes. For example, while more than half of the healthcare leaders are satisfied with their health information systems’ functionality, less than half are satisfied with their systems’ cost and value.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | Tags: Costs, Efficiency, health-information-system, Interoperability, Satisfaction, Usability
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Now that Stage 1 Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is out the door, and in the process of being implemented by health care providers and hospitals across the country, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is soliciting input and comments about the next step – Stage 2 Meaningful Use. Stage 2 is slated for implementation beginning in 2013.
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19 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Connectivity, Health Information Exchange, HL7, LOINC, Meaningful Use, Standards
HTMC
“Ministers recently set out a vision, through the NHS White Paper’s Information Revolution consultation document, that patients’ care records should become routinely available to them.
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18 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Patient
Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“The following are the comments I posted to Gienna’s article, http://ow.ly/3FWTP.
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18 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, Incentives, Meaningful Use, Productivity
John Rossheim, KevinMD
“To many physicians, it may appear self-evident that electronic records will improve the patient experience. After all, the doctor has speedier access to notes, labs and other patient data, and that’s got to increase the patient’s confidence in the doctor’s understanding of his health status.
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18 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Patient, Satisfaction
Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Getting rural providers, including critical access hospitals, to adopt electronic medical records is a monumental challenge, as the healthcare industry and advocates of healthcare IT are experiencing.
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18 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Health Information Exchange
Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“Combined data from two surveys of U.S. physicians taken over the past two years shows that while there has been a marked increase in the number of doctors using electronic health records (EHRs), the overall number of fully-functional systems remains in the high single digits to low double digits as a percentage of physicians.
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18 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, e-prescribing, Implementation
Wangui Maina, Business Daily
“Mganga is a mobile phone application that was developed by Kenyan PhD student Shikoh Gitau and won her the Google Anita Borg award last year.
The mobile health application that will record, catalogue and map out traditional medicine and knowledge is among the over 200 million m-health platforms in use today.
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18 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tags: Developing Countries, mHealth
Scot M Silverstein, Health Care Renewal
“Clinicians these days at computerized facilities are often drinking information from a firehose, and even worse.
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18 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Biomedical Informatics, Medical Information, Physicians
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A lot of studies have recently come out looking at productivity declines that are typical following the implementation of EMRs. Everyone expects the decrease in productivity because of the disruption in workflow.
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18 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Productivity, Workflow
