Articles
Wagner PJ et al, Perspectives in Health Information Management, 7(fall)
Electronic personal health records (ePHRs) can potentially maximize access and coordination of health information and improve patient/clinician collaboration, patient self-management, and health outcomes. Most ePHRs are designed by vendors, physicians, and other proprietary partners and have neglected the patient perspective. This study sought to incorporate patient feedback into an existing ePHR system. Patients participated in a semistructured interview after one to two weeks of using an ePHR. Interviews addressed strengths and weaknesses of the PHR.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: participatory, Patient, phr
Berryhill TL. Perspectives in Health Information Management, 7(fall)
This tongue-in-cheek essay hopes to prompt discussion among health information management (HIM) professionals of all levels with regard to the fast-changing HIM landscape, particularly the electronic health record (EHR) and the financial and career options that healthcare systems and employees have had to accept, adapt to, and decipher.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data Storage, Health Information Technology, Health Management, Information Management
Janet Dillione, HealthNewsDigest.com
“The cost advantages that cloud computing offers are enticing, especially in a time when healthcare organizations are investing in robust computing technology as part of their plan to qualify for the federal government’s $20 billion-plus HITECH financial incentive programs for achieving Meaningful Use of electronic health records (EHRs).
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Cloud, Decision Support, Speech Recognition
Aaron Carroll, NCPA
“About 20 percent of U.S. hospitals and 30 percent of office-based primary-care doctors — about 46,000 practitioners — had adopted a basic electronic record in 2010, according to government statistics. So why is that?
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Failure
Donald M. Burt, EMR Daily News
“CPOE adoption won’t reach the levels ONC is likely to mandate for Stages 2 and 3 Meaningful Use until: (1) the software is more usable for physicians; and (2) the software is more accessible to physicians.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: CPOE, Meaningful Use, mobile
Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“On Monday and Tuesday of this week I enjoyed meetings with Microsoft partners in New Zealand. NZ has always been a hot bed of software innovation with Kiwis quite keen on exporting their good work if possible. I see no signs of that slowing down. Furthermore, with the National Health IT program fully locked and loaded, there should be plenty of work to do over the next four years or so.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia, New Zealand | Tags: Health Information Technology, Public Health
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“One in five Americans use social media websites as a source of healthcare information, according to National Research Corp.’s Ticker survey, which bills itself as the largest, most up-to-date poll on consumer healthcare opinions and behaviors.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Diabetes, Social Media
Greg Freeman, HealthLeaders Media
“Health information technology (IT) has benefited even small physician practices, according to a new report that contradicts other recent findings claiming that electronic health records (EHRs) and other health IT do not yield the benefits most providers expect.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits
Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“Several key leaders of a federally funded software-development project to create a common connection to the proposed nationwide health information network have formed a not-for-profit organization to carry that work forward.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Open Source
iHealthBeat
“However, according to Adam Kaufman — president of DPS Health, which contracts with insurers and physicians for patient support programs — no studies have assessed how well health-related apps change behaviors primarily because academic research tends to lag behind innovation in technology (LiveScience/Fox News, 3/21).
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, Effectiveness, mHealth
Kimberly Leonard and Josh Israel, The Center for Public Integrity
“Home care providers in rural areas and other underserved communities may soon be eligible to receive Medicare payments for audio and video home monitoring under a Senate bill reintroduced last week after going nowhere in three recent sessions of Congress.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: homecare, Provider, Rural, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Underserved
Mary Stevens, CMIO
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) Direct Project has had a pretty good year: More than 65 organizations have announced support for implementing the Direct Project, and 20 states now have ONC-approved plans that include its mechanism for information exchange over the internet.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Interoperability
Eileen OBrien, Eyeforpharma
“Part of the transformation of health care is the new technology that allows smartphones to be used for diagnosis and tracking medical concerns.
These mobile apps do everything from monitoring heartbeats to managing glucose levels.
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22 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, Devices, mHealth, smartphone
Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“The patient portal of today has some neat features that are convenient for patients and save time and money for providers—online appointment scheduling and lab results for example. But what will the portal of the future look like?
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22 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Access, Patient, Portal, Social Media
CMIO
“Coupling an electronic prescription drug ordering system with a computerized method for reporting adverse events can dramatically reduce the number of medication errors in a hospital’s psychiatric unit, according to research published in the March edition of The Journal of Psychiatric Practice.
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22 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Adverse Events, Decision Support, e-prescribing, Medication Errors, Psychiatry
CMIO
“Clinical summaries with computer-generated reminders significantly improved clinician compliance with CD4 testing guidelines in the resource-limited setting of sub-Saharan Africa, according to research published in the March edition of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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22 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | EHR: EHR | Tags: Alert/Reminder, HIV, OpenMRS
Kelly Young, RA Warrior
“That story happened to me. That’s why I loved that Tweet from Kelly Kunik during last night’s Twitter HCSM (Healthcare communications social media) discussion. A doctor had questioned whether e-patient bloggers are credible sources.
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22 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: e-patient, Health Information, Narrative, Reliability, Social Media
David Harlow, HealthBlawg
“The data privacy and security concerns surrounding the transfer of de-identified data are significant. To “de-identify” what is otherwise protected health information under HIPAA, some outfits will simply strip data of 18 types of identifiers listed in federal regulations. However, the relevant regulation (45 CFR 164.514(b)(2)(ii)) also provides that this only works if “the covered entity does not have actual knowledge that the information could be used alone or in combination with other information to identify an individual who is a subject of the information.”
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22 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Data Mining, De-identification, Legal, Ownership, Patient
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“More effective use of information technology after a major disaster could significantly improve patient outcomes, according to a study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and the University of California, Davis.
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22 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Disaster, Telemedicine
E-Health-Com News
“Die gesetzlichen Krankenkassen, die Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Sachsen (KVS) und die Kassenzahnärztliche Vereinigung Sachsen (KZVS) haben im Rahmen der Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) eine unterschriftsreife Rahmenvereinbarung zur Finanzierung der Praxisausstattung mit Kartenlesegeräten vorgelegt. Darin werden detaillierte Fristen und Verantwortlichkeiten festgeschrieben.
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22 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Germany | EHR: EHR, EHR Germany | Tags: Implementation, Smart Card
