Articles
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Once upon a time, being diagnosed with the “C” word, cancer, was information that kept people quiet and within the family. Today, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and blogs have increasingly become routine settings for discussions regarding the most personal of concerns” — like health care, according to an analysis titled, Seeking Social Solace: How Patients Use Social Media to Disclose Medical Diagnoses Online from Russell Herder, a Minneapolis-based marketing & PR agency.
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23 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: diagnose, Patient, Social Media
eGovMonitor
“The newly launched telemedicine-project ‘My Heart’ is an initiative of state health insurer ‘Deutsche Angestellten Krankenkasse’ (DAK) and a group of private clinics in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein together with the home-visiting doctors and specialists that cooperate with them.
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23 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Germany | Tags: Cardiology, Telemedicine
John Pulley, NextGov
“Uncertainty around the deadline for meeting the next stage of electronic health record usability measures notwithstanding, medical professionals should move quickly to meet current EHR “meaningful use” standards, according to a new report.
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23 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Certification of electronic health record products is the first step toward achieving meaningful use. But what if you are a healthcare system operating under legacy software, customized commercial products or homegrown EHR systems that would cost hundreds of millions to replace with a new product already certified by the vendor?
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23 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Certification
Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“With Google Health about to shutter, nonprofit Dossia is taking a contrary position by launching the latest version of Dossia Health Manager, a consumer PHR (personal health record) platform offered by employers.
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23 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: phr, Platform
Gary L. Thompson, HL7 Standards
“Over the past several months, I have enjoyed the weekly #hitsm chats moderated by the team that brings us HL7Standards.com. During those tweet chats, it became clear that 2 or 3 extended posts might be a valuable addition to the occasional 140 character burst of wisdom that I hope to have contributed on behalf of @CLOUDHealth at #hitsm. It is hard to pack the entire CLOUD vision into one post, so we decided to break it up.
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22 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Cloud, Infrastructure
Laura McCrary, eHealth Initiative
“Recently I was presenting to a large group of physicians and explained to them how the HIE would provide them with a longitudinal view of all the patient’s medications. I shared with them that the exchange would be populated by the EHR at the time a provider prescribes a medication, or at the time the medications are reconciled at patient transitions of care.
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22 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Medication
Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“The FDA released the (currently non-binding) “Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff on Mobile Medical Applications” earlier this week. I knew many of my clients and readers would be asking about the ramifications of this new guidance so I read the document as soon as it came out.
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22 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Devices, mHealth
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Consider all the stakeholders with something to gain by moving from paper health records to digital electronic records. Who do you think would gain the most from EHRs, and who the least?
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22 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Patient, Safety, Security
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Ambulatory practices are “service nodes” in a larger ecosystem. Much of the work is done in concert with other pieces of the delivery system – referring physicians, consultants, pharmacies, outside laboratories, outside x-ray and imaging centers, etc. Thus, the future of EHRs for these kinds of settings really does focus on connectivity.
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22 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Ambulatory Care, Connectivity, Hospitals, Workflow
Healthcare Informatics
“From a purely business perspective, cloud computing makes a compelling case for healthcare providers. After all, the on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud model offers a way to reduce the costs of applications and storage-no small matter for hospitals faced with challenges to maintaining revenue margin health.
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22 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Cloud, Security
Derrick Berger, Physicians Practice
“In 2007, my wife opened a private medical practice, Brazosport Urology, in our hometown of Lake Jackson, Texas. While my background has been in IT, her clinic quickly became our family business and I took on the role as practice manager.
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21 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Implementation
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives is calling on the HHS Office for Civil Rights to tone down its requirements on the information that should be available to consumers in access reports under a final rule to account for disclosures of protected health information.
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21 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Audit, Health Information
CMIO
“When it comes to implementing national health IT policy, the U.S. could learn from Canada, according to research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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21 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada, United States | Tags: Health Information Technology
Zimlichman E et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Objective
To summarize the Canadian health information technology (HIT) policy experience and impart lessons learned to the US as it determines its policy in this area. Design Qualitative analysis of interviews with identified key stakeholders followed by an electronic survey.
Measurements
We conducted semi-structured interviews with 29 key Canadian HIT policy and opinion leaders and used a grounded theory approach to analyze the results. The informant sample was chosen to provide views from different stakeholder groups including national representatives and regional representatives from three Canadian provinces.
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21 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada, United States | Tags: Health Information Technology
e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“The idea is to give patients a chance to “Donate My Data” – to be a “data donor,” analogous to an organ donor, if they want to.
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21 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data, Research
Courtney Humphries, Technology Review
“When Google recently announced it would discontinue Google Health at the end of this year, it left the fate of personal health records (PHRs) hanging. Unlike medical records kept by health-care providers, Google Health offered a single place where people could store, analyze, and share their personal health information. But it was hampered by a fragmented health system that made it difficult to collect medical information, and it relied on the initiative of consumers to gather their own data.
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21 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Google-Health, phr
John Moehrke, Healthcare Security/Privacy
“I understand that a new concept was presented to ONC today called GreenButton (see twitter #GreenButton). I reacted strongly to the terse twitter posts (like there is anything other than terse on twitter). This exposed that GreenButton is simply an effort to enable the patient to choose to have their data available for research. ePatientDave posted a blog article.
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21 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Patient, Research
Technology for Doctors Online
“Municipalities with doctor shortages may soon have a new issue. Half of Sarnia’s 150 doctors will retire if forced to convert to electronic health records, predicts the president of the Lambton County Medical Society. “If the government says you have to have a complete paperless office by 2015, I’ll say ‘Goodbye, thank you, this is my license – you take over,’” says Dr. Kunwar Singh.
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21 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Paper Conversion, Physicians
Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online
“Twitter allows millions of social media fans to comment in 140 characters or less on just about anything: an actor’s outlandish behavior, an earthquake’s tragic toll or the great taste of a grilled cheese sandwich. But by sifting through this busy flood of banter, is it possible to also track important public health trends? Two Johns Hopkins University computer scientists would respond with a one-word tweet: “Yes!”
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21 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Public Health, Tracking, Twitter
