Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) build their electronic medical record systems to serve veterans and active duty service members, both organizations lack a coordinated health information technology management plan to jointly address common healthcare business needs, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official said.
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Cardiovascular Business
“Tsang shared a personal anecdote during his days as the CMO at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in New York City on the adoption of an EHR. “It wasn’t an easy journey during the go-live period,” he admitted. With 75 providers at the organization whose salaries depended on productivity and who needed 4,000 visits a year, it was tough when their productivity dropped about 25 percent in the first month.
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Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, International Herald Tribune
“For more and more people, computers and software are becoming a critical part of their health care.
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Genevra Pittman, Reuters
“Health information exchange — a process that aims to simplify and improve patient care by connecting doctors and hospitals — hasn’t been catching on as fast as policymakers hoped, a new survey finds.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“Now that the first HITECH checks are being dropped in the mail, tracking the impact of the incentive program will likely become an ever-rising priority for healthcare policymakers and stakeholders.
But while it will certainly be important to monitor the effectiveness of the federal HIT investment, equally, if not more, important will be figuring out who is still lagging behind, and why.
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Tim Coan, ALN Medical Management
“Lurking on the fringes of all of the discussion about EHRs is its consumer-oriented cousin, the Personal Health Record (PHR).
The PHR is the patient-centered, and patient owned, version of all of this digital health information. Goes something like this…
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Couple of weeks back the HIT Policy Committee began to seriously consider what a delay of Stage Two meaningful use (MU) might look like. This push for a delay is being driven in large part by EHR vendors.
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“Thomas Beale (CTO of Ocean Informatics and chair of the Architecture Review Board of the openEHR Foundation) posted these two paragraphs as part of the background for his recent Woland’s Cat post – The Null Flavour debate – part I.
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Nursing Times.net
“Text messages can bypass the complexity and expense of fancier technologies to tackle one of health care’s costliest burdens: patient communications, says Martin Perminas, CEO of Boomerang.
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Christopher Brown, NFC World
“A new NFC solution from Gentag and The Core Institute is designed to reduce healthcare costs by providing patients with a way to self-monitor their recovery after an operation so they can be discharged earlier from hospital.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“The timing of two new watchdog reports that highlight the need to protect the security of electronic health records could help build momentum for action, some observers say.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“First mobile phones, then tablets, then… cars? Paul Mascarenas, the Chief Technology Officer at Ford Research and Innovation, told me and a group of automotive journalists at Ford headquarters in Michigan yesterday that he believes the car will be the next platform for mobile health services.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“It just occurred to me that the ONC’s role, the Office of the National Coordinator, is just that—coordination. Who or what is the ONC supposed to be coordinating—among its various functions–the providers? There are the coordinators, and their constituents—the uncoordinated. I know at least one provider who already spent $400 million on its EHR. They didn’t get coordinated. I asked one of their executives who played a major oversight role in the implementation, with whom they worked at the ONC. She was not even familiar with the acronym.
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Richard Powell, EHR Bloggers
“The phrase “meaningful use” (MU) has entered the lexicon of the medical and health administration worlds in the last couple of years. There are plenty of publications from CMS and commentary from other policy groups regarding the short and long term implications of EHR uptake in the medical community.
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“The major benefit for patients is convenience. They appreciate the savings that result from a reduction in travel and the costs associated with it. Depending on the distance traveled, a doctor’s appointment may consume part of, or the whole day. When factoring in a day away from the job or the cost of daycare for children while the adult patient makes a regular in-person visit, telemedicine shows substantial savings of both time and money.
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Pauline W. Chen, The New York Times
“Researchers from Archimedes Inc., a San Francisco-based health care company, applied complex mathematical models to the electronic medical records of almost 3,000 hypertensive patients who had been followed for over a decade.
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Jim O'Neill, FierceVoIP
“Taking the Pulse, an annual market research report from Manhattan Research, found that the market for high-end telemedicine is continuing to grow, with seven percent of U.S. physicians use video conferencing to communicate with their patients.
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Healthcare Technology Online
“Health Language, Inc. (HLI), the global leader in medical terminology management, is teaming with Dossia, a leading health management system provider whose founding members include many of the country’s major employers, to improve the user experience and utility of the Dossia Personal Health Record for employees, retirees, and their dependents.
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Tim Lohman, CIO Australia
“The Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is moving to cut the voluminous paper records required to monitor the health and safety of its employees via the rollout of a statewide occupational health record information system.
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Healthcare IT News
“Expanded use of electronic medical records would substantially reduce infant mortality in the U.S., according to a study forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy.
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