Articles
Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online
“Physicians who observed the problems in Alberta when doctors tried to move their patient records from legacy EMRs to provincially certified EMRs may be worried. Will they be able to painlessly move their patient data to a new system if and when they need to? Ontario has taken steps to introduce data portability standards that help doctors avoid lock-in and preserve their EMR investments if they switch, and many other provinces are following suit.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Adoption, emr, SNOMED, Standards
Kaci Poor, Times-Standard
“At a town hall meeting Wednesday, veterans discussed their concerns regarding the limited and often impacted access to veterans health care in Humboldt County.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, Telemedicine
Healthcare IT News
“As it addresses an “explosive growth of medical information,” IBM has expanded its Health Analytics Solution Center – with team members working to increase and improve remote EHR connectivity through new “Watson”-like analytics power.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Industry, mHealth, Monitoring, smartphone, voice-recognition, Watson
Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“Patients with diabetes who receive treatment at HealthPartners clinics soon may be able to use a new personalized tool–called the Diabetes Wizard–which may be one of the first applications to use electronic health records to customize individual care.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Diabetes, Lifestyle, Primary Care
Ann Tracy Mueller, Health Care Communication News
“Aetna has a new texting program to help its members who have diabetes control their condition and avoid complications more easily and successfully.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Diabetes, Insurer, mHealth, SMS
Steve Costello, Mobile Business Briefing
“Early next month, the great and the good from the mobile industry will head to the GSMA’s inaugural Mobile Health Summit, where they will have the opportunity to mix with their peers from the healthcare sector.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth
Valencia Plaza
“El uso de internet y las redes sociales en la consulta del médico es una herramienta importante para facilitar la comunicación con el paciente” afirma Ignacio Basagoiti. El investigador del instituto valenciano Itaca-TSB y coordinador del proyecto Salupedia, explicó las últimas tendencias del uso de la web 2.0 en el mundo de la medicina en una jornada organizada por la Conselleria de Sanitat y Área Científica Menarini.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Decision Support, Health Information, Patient-clinician communication, Physician-Patient Relationship, Social Media, social-network
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“So as we all knew all the rubbish about July 2012 is just that, rubbish. Maybe in a decade there will be something useful come from all this effort and expenditure – but name a project of this scale that has actually delivered under the management and direction of Government.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tags: Failure, Implementation
Joseph McMenamin, iMedicalApps
“A medical malpractice plaintiff must meet four tests: a duty, breach of that duty, causation (the “so what?” question), and damages. A failure to prove any one of these elements is fatal to the plaintiff’s case. In mHealth, the most complex of these may be the one that, in conventional care, is the simplest: duty.
In most health care, it’s usually pretty clear when I am your doctor and you are my patient.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth, smartphone, Social Media, Wikipedia
Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider Acute
“South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is to develop an online personal health record to encourage clinicians and patients to share information, based on the Microsoft HealthVault platform.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: GP, HealthVault, phr, Portal
Ron Rajecki, Medical Economics
“Good news if you use an electronic health record (EHR) system—and a tip on how best to use it, courtesy of the Sage Healthcare Insights survey: Patients feel more comfortable with physicians who use an EHR system, and they believe that the information contained in the medical record is more accurate when they physically see the information being entered electronically.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Patient, Physicians
Charles Fiegl, amednews
“Efforts to launch electronic medical records in hospitals have proceeded without ensuring that proper data safeguards are in place, according to two reports from the Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Confidentiality, emr, Hospitals, Security
Newswise
“As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the government is investing billions of dollars to encourage health care providers to use electronic health record systems. Many providers will probably switch from older systems to new systems to qualify for the federal incentives, but whether the upgrade improves patient care and safety has remained an open question.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: e-prescribing
Abramson EL et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2011
BACKGROUND:
Healthcare providers previously using older electronic health records (EHRs) with electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) are transitioning to newer systems to be eligible for federal meaningful use incentives. Little is known about the safety effects of transitioning between systems.
OBJECTIVE:
To assess the effect of transitioning between EHR systems on rates and types of prescribing errors, as well as provider perceptions about the effect on prescribing safety.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Ambulatory Care, e-prescribing
BattleCreekEnquirer
“Electronic medical records play a major role in national efforts both to improve health care and to reduce costs.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Security
CBP
“De minister van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport (VWS) heeft aangegeven haar medewerking aan het Landelijk Schakelpunt (LSP) voor de verwerking van patiëntgegevens af te bouwen. Dit besluit is een gevolg van het verwerpen van het wetsvoorstel inzake het landelijk elektronisch patiëntendossier door de Eerste Kamer.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Legal
Richard M. Hodge, HIMSS Blog
“Frequent mismatches between patients and clinical data are a serious and growing patient safety issue. Incorrect information or linking the wrong clinical information to a person is a potentially deadly patient safety issue, and incurs huge additional costs to the healthcare system. Estimates are that the frequency of patient–data mismatches may be 10-15 percent and costing millions of dollars every year to correct.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Data, Patient
Carl Natale, Government Health IT
“A survey released Tuesday found that healthcare professionals are most worried about having enough staffing to make the ICD-10 conversion.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: ICD-10
Krista Conger, Scope
“Like many people in this country, I have sometimes taken two or more prescription drugs at one time to treat different conditions. What I didn’t realize, though, is that doctors lack a good way to predict how different drugs will interact.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Adverse Drug Reactions, Data Mining, Drugs
Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“The fact that EMRs have been failure prone is no secret (see: The Causes of EMR System Implementation Failure). The cause of such failures is multifactorial. Lab Soft News has also covered this topic in the past (see: EMR Failures and a Recipe for Their Avoidance in the Future; Modeling the Costs of IT System Failures Globally). However, I firmly believe that physicians, like most professionals, will avidly embrace any type of information technology that will improve their productivity.
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26 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Physicians, Usability
