John Moehrke, Healthcare Security/Privacy
“I am sure that everyone is thinking their plan brings Health IT to simplicity, and I would even assert that each plan would succeed. The problem is we don’t all have the same plan, thus your efforts to take us down your plan toward your simplicity takes everyone off of my plan toward my simplicity (metaphorically speaking you vs me). Multiply this by the 100 some plans in play, and we get a mess.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“I think it is fair to say the e-Health program in general from DoHA and NEHTA is particular are now on notice as far as the Opposition is concerned to do a great deal better job or face some considerable extra scrutiny and accountability down the track. That can only be a good thing in my view.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The new Dossia Health Manager is an “intelligent” health management system that further extends Dossia’s original e-personal health record capabilities beyond being a platform for individuals to store and track their health information to one that enables users’ health data to become “actionable,” said Dossia CEO Mike Critelli, in an interview with InformationWeek Healthcare.
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eHealth Initiative
“Electronic health records (EHRs) are considered an essential ingredient of care coordination by Medical Homes; however, detailed descriptions of how it actually happens in real life are rarely found. eHealth Initiative, working with sanofi-aventis and Health & Technology Vector (H&TV), recently concluded an exploratory project to understand how eHRs can be used to improve care coordination for complex patients.
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Jon Mertz, HL7 Standards
“When I started to read about the potential – and now, real – delays in Stage 2 of Meaningful Use, my first reaction was that this is not the right approach. We need to keep the momentum going.
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Matthew Arnold, MM&M
“For pharmas and their agencies, it’s what the agency isn’t interested in that’s more significant. Exempted from the draft guidance were mobile apps that are digital versions of medical textbooks or reference materials but do not contain patient-specific info;
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“According to the FDA’s mobile medical app draft regulatory guidelines, which it made public this morning, there are a handful of different types of health and medical apps that the agency specifically said would not be regulated under the proposed guidelines.
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Steven Overly, The Washington Post
“The host of health-related applications that are turning smartphones and wireless tablets into personal nutritionists, gym buddies and physicians are now catching the eye of federal regulators.
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John, EMR and EHR
“I believe it’s incredibly valuable for a clinic to seriously consider the impact of EHR down time will have on their clinic. I worked at one clinic where, while it was rather annoying, the patient care wasn’t terribly impacted by down time.
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Fred Trotter
“The blue button initiative was a good initiative because it allowed greater access. It made that possible by ensuring that access to patient data did not have to wait for the VA/DOD/Whatever to create a download that conformed to the still-forming XML standards that make true interoperability possible.
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“A new report by Frost & Sullivan, “European Market for Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Systems,” reveals that accelerated adoption of eHealth in Europe has impacted the growth of the CPOE market.
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Houston Neal, Software Advice
“A lot has changed in the World of Apple since we originally wrote this post. Apple introduced the iPad, iPad 2 and version 4 of the iPhone. Over and above that, the App Store grew to more than 350,000 apps and reached over 10 billion downloads. Apple is clearly winning over the hearts and minds of consumers. What influence are they having in other markets, such as healthcare?
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Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“An intriguing editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal last week got me thinking. The authors pleaded with the Canadian national health system to abandon its ban on smartphones in hospitals.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“I won’t go into all 11 of the recommendations in a report this week from the National Research Council on improving the connections between electronic health-records systems and home health-care monitoring devices, and the usability of those devices by nonclinicians.
You can read them all in a free copy here.
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Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Doctors who are using or recommending mobile apps can breathe a bit easier. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s new draft guidance, published this morning, excuses a whole raft of lower-level health apps from the strictest Class II and III regulations.
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Boston Globe
“When a tornado devastated parts of Missouri in May, the paper records at one hospital in the city of Joplin were destroyed; X-rays were found scattered as far as 75 miles away. The disaster underscored the urgent need for switching to electronic health records, which offer lower costs, reduced possibility of medical errors – and obvious security advantages.
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Hart T et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 17(6)
Introduction:
Immunization schedules are complicated and difficult for parents to remember. Parents are willing to receive text message reminders. However, it is unknown whether physicians are willing to implement such a system. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a text messaging reminder system from the physician’s perspective.
Materials and Methods:
Surveys were distributed in the winter of 2009–2010 by e-mail, facsimile, and telephone interview to 149 family physicians and pediatricians who provide immunizations in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
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Sue Dunlevy, The Australian
“IT cuts admissions to intensive care units by half, reduces patient deaths and the time spent in hospital. But no Australian hospital will adopt an electronic patient tracking system developed here. Instead, it is being sold overseas.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“This morning the US Food and Drug Administration offered up a set of draft guidelines for how it might regulate certain mobile medical apps. While this set of guidelines was years in the making, it became clear a few months ago that the FDA would publish draft guidelines around this time. The FDA is seeking comments on these guidelines between now and October 19.
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Angela Haupt, USNews
“Twenty years ago the influential Institute of Medicine began prodding the medical community to embrace electronic medical records. EMRs would make healthcare better, safer, and more efficient, argued the IOM, if every person’s complete medical history was stored on computers linked up across the country. Clinicians anywhere could view a patient’s every blood test, hospital stay, and X-ray; smart software would guide diagnoses.
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