Brian Eastwood, HealthITExchange
“Few U.S. health IT professionals are unaware of the upcoming mandated transition to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Edition, or ICD-10.
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allinhit, HealthITExchange
“The Direct Project, a NHIN effort to provide a simplied, scalable, transport method for exchanging PHI will now be tested by the Rhode Island Quality Institue and the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minnesota. However, as I explained to a physician recently who confused the Direct Project with the state HIE, there are limitations to the Direct Project. It is designed only as a secure mechanism to transport and push PHI between two parties (It could be three parties if there is a Health Information Service Provider or HISP).
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“There’s a pretty fierce battle going on right now between all the various stakeholders interested in exchanging patient data. The stakeholders range from very large companies to government initiatives to startup companies. One of the major problems that I see is that it’s not completely clear which model of patient data exchange will win out. In fact, let’s not be surprised if a number of different options take hold.
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John Glaser, H&HN Daily
“The goal of an accountable care organization is to improve the integration of care among providers. This integration could encompass a wide variety of provider types, such as physicians, nurse practitioners, hospitals and non-acute providers. Ultimately, this integration should result in care that is safer, more efficient, and of better service and higher quality.
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Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“For this month’s HealthLeaders magazine cover story I interviewed a number of healthcare organizations that are using remote health technologies to improve efficiency, respond quickly to emergencies, and open up new streams of revenue.
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David Blumenthal, Health IT Buzz Blog
“We’ve known for years that health information technology can improve health care. But until recently, the implementation rate among providers has been low, except for a few early adopters.
In the last two years, however, there has been a significant upward inflection in the adoption rate. For primary care providers, adoption of a basic EHR increased by half from 19.8 percent in 2008 to 29.6 percent in 2010.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“One of the big concerns about implementing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) into a medical practice is the fear that it will slow you down. In fact, after cost, usability (and its effect on productivity) is the second-biggest perceived barrier to EHR adoption.
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Jon Mertz, HL7 Standards
“EMR and EHR created confusion. From healthcare standards to all the various applications, healthcare has its own alphabet.
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Laavanya Pasupuleti, Medicine and Technology
“It is hard to believe that this March will be exactly one year since President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010. One major provision of PPACA is that its enactment requires the creation of a non-profit institute, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, whose main responsibility is to undertake comparative effectiveness research.
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Davis Liu, KevinMD
“A recent post in the Wall Street Journal’s Health Blog noted that a study found electronic medical records don’t improve outpatient quality. The authors of the Archives of Internal Medicine article, Electronic Health Records and Clinical Decision Support Systems, correctly points out that we should be skeptical and “doubt [the] argument that the use of EHRs is a “magic bullet” for health care quality improvement, as some advocates imply.”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A number of consumer-focused surveys have been conducted gauging patient or consumer views of EMRs. The latest one, by NORC at the University of Chicago, an independent research organization, says 78 percent of Americans favor the use of EMRs.
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E-Health-Com News
“Zum Jahresbeginn startete die AOK PLUS – die Gesundheitskasse für Sachen und Thüringen – ein neues Versorgungsangebot für Versicherte mit einer Herzschwäche. Mit „AOK-HerzAktiv“ bietet die Krankenkasse Patienten, die von einer schweren chronischen Herzinsuffizienz betroffen sind, unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen ab sofort eine telefonische und bei Bedarf telemedizinische Intensivbetreuung an.
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Ralf Gordon Jahns, research2guidance
“Mobile health applications experience a second hype phase after first enthusiasm in the early 2000s. In 2011 there are uncounted conferences which focus on mHealth and the GSMA conference in Barcelona this week offers a special track on the potentials of mHealth applications. Companies like Qualcomm, HP, and Orange are trying to position themselves for the time when the market will take off. But how will mHealth apps generate enough sustainability to meet the rising expectations during this hype phase?
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VOVNews
“Vietnam is going to launch its first national e-health plans this year, said the Ministry of Health.
According to Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Department of Medical Services Administration, a national telemedicine service and a synchronous electronic medical records system will be set up in four years’ time under the plans.
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Louisa Kadzo, Computerworld
“The cover story in the February edition of CIO magazine gives an indepth analysis of just how businesses in East Africa have integrated the mobile device in their operations to improve efficiency, increase customer base and enable businesses have a competitive edge in the market.
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D.C. Denison, Boston Globe
“When Dr. Michael Lee collects his thoughts after seeing a patient, he slips a Bluetooth-enabled device over his ear, opens a laptop computer, and starts talking.
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Alex Woodie, IT Jungle
“In 2007, the chain of 26 hospitals put the brakes on an implementation of a new electronic health record (EHR) system from Epic Systems after it had already spent about $500 million on the project. The organization, which adopted the IBM i-based MedSeriesIV healthcare information system (HIS) from Siemens in the mid 1990s, announced last year that it would put an additional $400 million into the Epic project, with expectations of a full-roll out by 2015.
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Jim Sabogal's Blog
“We are not at a point where we can effectively: total, safely protect, easily transport and access our health data. I read a great article by Margalit Gur-Arie entitled, “Trust your life records to an unnamed chain of software vendors” she uses an analogy of our current banking system to emphasize how far away we are from gaining the trust around our health records data. Great article and highly recommended. This got me thinking about how we manage our data today?
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Kari Popov, Mass Device
“First, a true confession: I have two kids … and absolutely no idea when their yearly check-ups are. Originally, they were the same months as their birthdays, January and November. Simple, right? Not so much, since you can’t schedule next year’s appointment at this year’s appointment.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As the Internet in general and social networking in particular are used as a point of reference for gathering and sharing health information, a study that examined 10 diabetes-focused social networking sites has found that the quality of clinical information, as well as privacy policies, significantly varied across these sites.
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