Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Daniel Casciato, Medical Office Today
“While the latest technological advances can help today’s medical practices become more effective and efficient, the upfront costs to purchase a new piece of medical equipment, EMR software, or even iPads, can be too much of a burden on a tight operating budget. One way that medical practices can ease that burden is to partner with a hospital or a larger healthcare organization and share the costs.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Today, EHRs are not designed to support clinical decision-making since physicians are faced with information overload, time pressures, multi-tasking, and the need to aggregate and synthesize information from disparate sources. Today’s systems serve as a medium for information storage and retrieval but are rarely aligned with mental processes that underlie clinical decisions.
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Fred Trotter
“Recently, Google announce that the Google Health PHR will be retiring.
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John M. Grohol, e-Patients.net
“Like so many attempts before it — drkoop.com and RevolutionHealth.com to name just two — Google has found that implementing personal health records in a meaningful way is really, really hard.
So hard, in fact, that it has given up and is shuttering its Google Health service, after just 3 years being open to the public.
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David Meyer, ZDNet UK
“Google is to shut down its PowerMeter and Google Health services because it has been unable to turn them into mass-market propositions, the company said on Friday.
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MarketWire
“The American Diabetes Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are working with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in an effort to inform a nationwide program to increase the use of health information technology (IT). As was announced at a press conference at the American Diabetes Association’s 71st Scientific Sessions®, this work will help individuals better prevent and manage diabetes and its complications, with a focus on campaigns that will be launched by ONC grantees this fall in Detroit and New Orleans.
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Susan Wilson, Tech.Blorge
“Almost four years ago online health records were the next big thing in health care. People could record all of their health information online. They could share their records with hospitals and physicians offices to create some consistency between family doctors and specialists, and easy access to patient history if they wound up in the hospital.
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matdx, reinventing healthcare
“Google just announced it will discontinue its personal health records service. The announcement mentions the Direct Project, which specifies standards for the exchange of health information.
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Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“Google is giving up on its vision of helping people live healthier lives with online personal health records.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“I just caught an interesting piece in on the use of plain old, unsexy carts in hospitals — one whose conclusions which may surprise you a bit. The piece argues that since hospitals are comfortable using carts to haul around full-sized equipment, they may be slower than expected to adopt hot portable devices in care delivery.
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Aaron McKethan, Pierce Graham-Jones, and Paras Fatemi, Health IT Buzz
“Health care improvement often refers to the process of making changes to the way health care is delivered by providers. But actions to improve and reform the health care delivery system can only go so far. As Dr. Don Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services often reminds us, the delivery system Exit Disclaimer doesn’t have much control over the biggest factors that influence a person’s overall health.
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John W. Sharp, eHealth
“The reasons can go on and on. But overall, how widely have PHRs been adopted. Seen initially as a disruptive technology, but lack of trust and understand of its value by consumers has led to sluggish adoption overall. How successful is Microsoft HealthVault, Dossia and others? How about PHRs sponsored by payers? It appears that healthcare consumers are stronger adopters of social media and wellness tools and not PHRs.
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Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“While PHRs haven’t caught the healthcare world by storm, their “Patient Portal” cousins are doing great. Unlike PHRs, which are usually managed and maintained by patients, “Patient Portals” are managed and maintained by a healthcare professional or provider organization — and usually allows for a major feature: messaging and private emails.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The Supreme Court handed pharmaceutical companies and data mining firms a victory on Thursday when it struck down a Vermont law that banned the use of prescription information collected by pharmacies for marketing purposes.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Chilmark Research has not had a very good feeling about Google Health for well over a year now. Back in early May of this year we felt that Google had all but given up and had put Google Health in stasis.
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Kelly Mehler, Healthcare IT News
“An unsatisfactory relationship between the doctor and patient is one of the great impediments to a functioning U.S. healthcare system. Our social media followers say that relationship is hurt by three primary factors… can IT help?
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The shutdown of Google Health should come as no surprise to those following the connected health conversation. Personal health records and similar platforms have largely failed to gain adoption among consumers — this is especially true for those systems that are not tethered to a patient’s healthcare provider.
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John Degaspari, Healthcare Informatics
“As healthcare providers continue their steady march toward implementing electronic health records as envisioned in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, leading hospital systems are confronting head-on the challenge of integrating the disparate medical devices operating within their walls into EHR data flow.
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Ann-Marie C. DePalma, RDH
“Electronic medical records and electronic health records (EMR and EHR) are words dental professionals are not accustomed to using. In 2014-2015, however, dentistry will be part of the proposed regulations governing EHR. How will your practice transition, what will be required, and what will not?
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