Kopala B, Mitchell ME. JONA'S Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation, 13(3)
There has been a proliferation in the use of digital health records. Although electronic records have many benefits, concerns have been raised about associated risks and barriers. This article focuses on risks associated with development, utilization, and maintenance of provider-owned electronic medical records and institution-owned electronic health records.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Last week, I interviewed Dr. Leslie Saxon, executive director of the University of Southern California’s Center for Body Computing, who talked extensively about multidisciplinary collaboration. Well, check out what happens when you get medical professionals and engineers together.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture have signed a memorandum of understanding linking rural hospitals and clinicians to capital loan programs to help them purchase software and hardware needed to implement health IT.
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Murff HJ et al, JAMA, 306(8)
CONTEXT
Currently most automated methods to identify patient safety occurrences rely on administrative data codes; however, free-text searches of electronic medical records could represent an additional surveillance approach.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate a natural language processing search-approach to identify postoperative surgical complications within a comprehensive electronic medical record.
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Fred O'Connor, IDG News
“A lack of electronic medical data from doctors, complicated setup processes and the static nature of personal health records (PHRs) have caused U.S. consumers to shun the products. But PHR use should increase as more doctors use electronic health records (EHRs) and tech vendors develop offerings that are easier to use.
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Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“As mobile device use accelerates, agency executives should avoid the common myths about what mobile technology can and cannot do, said Gwynne Kostin, director of mobile at the General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies.
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Steve Dickman, Xconomy
“Even if Obamacare is ultimately upheld, it’s hard to imagine that the government alone is capable of unifying and analyzing all this data through the implementation of electronic health records.
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Jha AK. JAMA, 306(8)
In 2009, the US Congress passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which offers nearly $30 billion in financial incentives to physicians and hospitals that adopt and choose to meaningfully use electronic health records (EHRs).
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Darren Pauli, SC Magazine
“The Government’s plan to introduce electronic health records is a “nightmare” for security according to the head of industry group AusCERT.
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Jayashree Adkoli, TMCnet
“Recently, the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was ratified. The ARRA’s Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) includes more than $19 billion in incentives for physicians to adopt electronic health record (EHR) technology. Precisely, the HITECH calls for physicians to earn up to $64,000 over five years if they “meaningfully use” an EHR.
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Janet Dillione, Huffington Post
“First, do no harm” is a fundamental precept to medical ethics and a guiding light for the delivery of care. Physicians take on the laudable act of healing — a superhuman undertaking that unfortunately cannot be done with a wand or wiggle of the nose.
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Ken Terry, FierceEMR
“One of the biggest obstacles to true interoperability among clinical information systems is the multiplicity of medical terms used to describe the same concept. In an effort to promote “semantic interoperability” among systems, the Health IT Standards Committee, a governmental advisory body, has endorsed the use of certain standard vocabularies in electronic health records (EHRs).
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has formalized its burgeoning social media empire by announcing a policy on how VA employees should use these online platforms.
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Brandon Savage, EHR Scope
“Over the next two years, electronic health record (EHR) adoption in the U.S. is expected to reach very high levels as healthcare organizations continue to progress in the vast arena of delivery system reform by reducing costs and improving quality of care. The federal government will invest $30 billion in healthcare IT in the next decade, primarily through financial incentives for healthcare providers who demonstrate Meaningful Use of their EHR.
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Brita Van Fossen, Health IT Pulse
“Small practices across the country face many challenges in meeting meaningful use requirements. Separated from large hospitals or research institutions, these providers suffer from a lack of resources, funding and support.
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Anja Stagge, Healthcare meets Social Media…
“Vor einigen Wochen ging Google + als neues “google-eigenes“ Netzwerk an den Start und kann inzwischen mehr als 20 Millionen aktive Nutzer verzeichnen.
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Mark Ryan, iMedicalApps
“In these last few months, I have been lucky enough to discuss the use of social media with physicians in a number of settings. One of the major themes of these discussions is determining the value of social media that makes it worth adding to a physician’s day already filled with patient care, insurance, and other administrative work.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Health information exchange is the next big phase of Health IT. Stage 1 of Meaningful Use was focused mainly on getting computer screens (instead of paper charts) in front of clinicians’ eyes as part of day-to-day work.
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Jenn Riggle, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Mobile medical apps promise to help people manage chronic diseases by putting information in people’s hands.
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Dr. Frederick, KevinMD
“One of the shocking and sobering aspects of social media is the vast amount of contemporaneous value judging now pouring forth from those small devices. Electronically empowered consumers rate everything.
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