John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“On Friday, January 21, 2011, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center completed the certification of its enterprise EHR technologies via the CCHIT EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH) program.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“First the program is way behind time and over budget.
Second it seems that there has been pretty intense resistance to many clinical applications from the clinicians who are expected to use the software.
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Nick Collins, Telegraph.co.uk
“Under plans being considered by ministers, patients would be told to electronically submit a description of their condition which would be answered by doctors later on in the day.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“There’s little question that electronic health records reduce adverse drug events and improve quality of care. But that doesn’t mean healthcare providers shouldn’t be doing all they can to make sure they’re as safe and as easy to use as possible, said National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Blumenthal, MD.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“David Blumenthal, MD, head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, told an eHealth Initiative audience in Washington, DC, last week that the nation is now in the era of meaningful use.
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Noor Aftab, The News
“The participants of a conference on Sunday maintained that there is a need to build networks to share and enhance knowledge, and to advocate for policy support for broader implementation of e-Health programmes in the country.
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Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“A universal exchange language, as proposed by a presidential council, is far from a panacea for ensuring electronic health records interoperability and easing the secure exchange of data, a diverse coalition says.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“About half of all electronic medical record implementations fail, and most of those failures stem from poor planning and preparation, said a family physician who spoke at a regional extension center forum for providers in Maine.
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Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“A ruggedly handsome doctor, his attractive and affectionate nurse, and a bemused patient are trapped by a monster spawned from the paperwork involved in the health care system. What to do!?”
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Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“If you follow industry business, you know that smartphones are taking health and healthcare by a storm. Whether it is doctors and nurses using smartphones to access clinical information at the bedside or consumers downloading the coolest new app for dieting or fitness, it is hard to imagine how anyone does anything without being tethered to a phone these days.
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Caleb Hellerman, CNN Health
“Electronic medical records, also known as EHRs, often touted as a powerful antidote for uncoordinated and ineffective medical care, do little to help patients outside the hospital, according to a new study.
Researchers from Stanford University analyzed federal data on more than 255,000 patients, about a third of whom had health information carried electronically. The researchers compared the care of those patients to the care of patients without EHRs, on 20 different measures of quality – for example, whether proper medication was prescribed for patients with asthma or simple infections, or whether smokers were counseled on ways to quit.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“A pair researchers at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., has released results of a three-year study that indicates EHRs did little to improve the quality of care.
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Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters
“Electronic health records — touted by the White House as a key way to improve healthcare in the United States — may actually do little to improve quality, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
A team from Stanford University in California analyzed nationwide survey data from more than 250,000 visits to physicians’ offices and other outpatient settings between 2005 and 2007.
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Romano MJ, Stafford RS. Arch Intern Med, 171(10)
Background
Electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly used by US outpatient physicians. They could improve clinical care via clinical decision support (CDS) and electronic guideline-based reminders and alerts. Using nationally representative data, we tested the hypothesis that a higher quality of care would be associated with EHRs and CDS.
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medGadget
“Google Translate on Android phones now offers a beta “conversation mode” which can act as an interpreter between speakers of different languages (think Universal Translator from Star Trek). Here’s Graham Walker demonstrating the potential of this new feature for use in a clinical setting:”
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Janice Simmons, FierceHealthIT
“Despite the widespread support for eHealth technologies throughout the healthcare community, relatively little empirical evidence exists to substantiate many of the claims made about these technologies, say British researchers in a new study published by the online Public Library of Science (PLoS).
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Cathy Thomas, Medicine and Technology
“The terms “robotics” and “artificial intelligence” have been bandied about for quite some time now, and we’ve seen the advances that have been made in robotics technology and applied successfully in various industries. The world of medicine however, was lagging behind – when lives are at stake, perhaps human intuition was considered superior to robotic efficiency.
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Cian O' Sullivan, GoMo News
“According to a study from www.research2guidance.com, mHealth isn’t really going to come into it’s own until the current market changes. At the moment, the majority of mHealth apps are from independent developers, and provide basic tracking and fitness tools.
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Kevin Shalvey, Times' Live
“Imagine you’re a two-day trip away from the nearest doctor and are starting to experience flu-like symptoms, but you’re unsure if it’s malaria, swine flu or merely a common cold.
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Megan Ogilvie, Healthzone.ca
“Just as they go online to pay bills, renew library books and buy movie tickets, patients at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre can now log on the Internet to manage their health.
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