Articles
Greenhalgh T et al, BMJ, 336(7656)
Objective
To document the views of patients and the public towards the summary care record (SCR, a centrally stored medical record drawn from the general practice record) and HealthSpace (a personal health organiser accessible through the internet from which people can view their SCR), with a particular focus on those with low health literacy, potentially stigmatising conditions, or difficulties accessing health care.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Consent, emr, Internet, Primary Care, summary-care-records
Perry HJ. BMJ, 341
As a healthcare librarian and someone with diabetes who has a HealthSpace basic account, I was very interested in Greenhalgh and colleagues’ study.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: phr
MedCity News
“The medical device industry is touting a study it says debunks the Food & Drug Administration’s claims that there’s a safety benefit from the slower, more rigorous regulatory process in the U.S.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe, United States | Tags: Devices
Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“Many years ago, I took on the role of process improvement leader at the company where I was developing linguistic software. We spent a good deal of time learning about ISO-9001 and the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model as described in Watts Humphrey’s book: Managing the Software Process.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Adoption, Health Information Technology
El cuaderno de bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“Siguiendo con nuestra experiencia, se decidió que el acceso estaría regulado por listas blancas, es decir, sólo se podría acceder a aquellas páginas que se hubieran autorizado previamente. El órgano encargado de autorizarlas es la Dirección Médica.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Access, Health Information, Hospitals, Internet, Nurses, Physicians
Frank Vinluan, MedCity News
“Electronic medical records are still making their way into physicians’ offices, but a South Carolina startup thinks it’s already spotted a missing piece of the technology – video.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Industry, Video
Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“A quick peek at the past few days in the literature on whether electronic health records are capable of improving quality care shows EHRs taking it on the chin a few times.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Quality
McDonald C, Abhyankar S. Arch Intern Med, 2011
In this issue of the Archives, Romano and Stafford report on the effect of electronic health records (EHRs)—both with and without clinical decision support (CDS)—on physician adherence to evidence-based guidelines. They used data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) to evaluate physician performance on 20 quality indicators.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Decision Support
Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal
“The Instituto do Cancer do Estado de São Paulo (ICESP)—a 28-story cancer clinic said to be the largest public cancer-treatment center in Latin America—is employing a Wi-Fi-based real-time location system (RTLS) to facilitate the way in which its staff responds when a patient goes into cardiac arrest.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Brazil | Tags: Hospitals, Location, RFID, Tracking
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“As a disclosure, Voalte is a developer for smartphones. Given that, you can take their whitepaper knowing they may have a particular slant in mind.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, mHealth, smartphone
John, EMR and HIPAA
“As many of you know, I’ve never been a huge fan of most of the RECs even if I believe that RECs could be a great force for good. I am a huge fan of some of the incredibly smart people I’ve met that work at the RECs. However, some of the actions of RECs make me cringe.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr
Ray Saitz, The Peterborough Examiner
“The Internet has made the sharing of information commonplace and most people are comfortable with having some personal material on the Net.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Internet, phr
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new inventory management software being made available to the 75 independent members of America’s Blood Centers, North America’s largest alliance of independent blood programs, will enable hospitals to track their use of blood products in patients, manage their inventory and compare blood use protocols against best practices. Potential savings could approach $1 billion.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Blood, Hospitals, Tracking
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“In an effort to boost drug safety, a new online service has been launched that allows doctors to check the FDA-approved labeling for the most commonly prescribed drugs. The service is at the center of a new campaign being led by PDR Network called “Know the Label.”
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Drug labeling
Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“Recently released surveys from ONC suggest that a significant percentage of providers at least intend to take advantage of federal incentives.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Costs, Health Information Technology, Implementation
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Before entering the convoluted healthcare IT sector, I had worked in the manufacturing sector both as an IT analyst and in corporate strategy for Europe’s second largest enterprise software company.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Adoption, Health Information Exchange
Kevin Pho, KevinMD
“Electronic medical records and pay for performance are among the ways health reformers are going to improve patient care.
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28 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Quality
Health Care Tracker
“I came across an article of interest that I thought I would like to share with you. The article was about EHR viability and how rapid market evolution is leading some vendors behind.
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27 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Provider, vendors
Robert Rowley, KevinMD
“Adoption of electronic health records (EHR) systems remains a challenge, both for hospitals as well as for physicians in ambulatory practice. The process of adoption, implementation, and meaningful use of EHRs (let us keep in mind) is actually quite different between those two setting.
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27 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Ambulatory Care, Hospitals, Implementation
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The results of a study conducted by a Stanford University Research team may compel you to put a nail in the coffin of EHRs, but hold that hammer.
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27 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA
