Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“According to our most recent technology survey, conducted in the first quarter of 2011, 25 percent of hospital-owned practices and 17 percent of independent practices use interactive patient portals. And it’s easy to see why. For starters, they’re a more secure way of communicating.
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“Physicians across Denmark will have access to real-time patient data with a portal solution from Carefx and IBM. The five healthcare regions in Denmark will deploy the solution based on Carefx’s Fusionfx platform and IBM’s WebSphere technologies.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“The problem with health IT policymakers and stakeholders is that they are dedicated to the idea that effective, widespread use of IT can lead to a healthier population.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“Today, patients can obtain their laboratory test results from their healthcare providers under guarantees in the Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. In a few more years, the CMS’ own electronic health-record incentive programs should spur widespread provider adoption of interoperable EHRs, and that should speed up patient access to lab results considerably.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Would the adoption of electronic health records be more widespread if users saw the systems more as decision support tools, similar to GPS systems? According to Quadramed CMO and VP Joe Bormel, writing in Healthcare Informatics, it’s all a matter of expectations.
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Mary Ellen Schneider, Family Practice News Digital Network
“Current government thresholds for the “meaningful use” of computerized provider order entry in the hospital may not be high enough to actually save lives, according to a simulation conducted by researchers at the Rand Corporation.
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Eric Fishman, Medscape Today
“Physicians often complain that when using electronic health records (EHRs), they’re so busy typing that it’s difficult to make good eye contact with patients. New voice recognition software holds promise, but is it there yet?
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Technology for Doctors Online
“In recent years, adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) among physicians has been on the rise; that adoption, however, has largely come from general practitioners. The 2010 National Physician Survey states that only 10.1 per cent of specialist physicians reported using EMR, compared with 21.5 per cent from among their general practitioner counterparts.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Faced with criticism for a lack of details and vision in its original draft of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2011-2015, federal authorities have beefed up some privacy and security details in the final version.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“A new study published in Health Affairs suggests that Stage 1 meaningful use criteria for use of computerized physician order entry systems is probably too low to significantly lower mortality rates among heart patients, but higher levels of mandated use in Stages 2 and 3 “is more consistently associated with lower mortality.”
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Amanda Buie, Healthcare IT Solutions
“The future of Watson looks promising. Word is out that WellPoint has hired Dr. Watson to help physicians cure the ill. Watson has the ability to run patient information against medical information from multiple sources to provide feedback on diagnoses and treatment options.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The American Medical Informatics Association argues that when it comes to oversight of clinical decision support systems, the most critical factor in determining the risk classification of different types of software is whether the CDS is mediated by a human being or not.
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EMR Daily News
“McKesson recently announced McKesson Practice Choice, a fully integrated electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solution that puts advanced yet easy-to-use technology within reach of small independent primary care practices. The industry’s newest Web-based EHR offers clinical, financial and operational tools on a single database.
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Ken Alltucker, The Arizona Republic
“Rural hospitals that do not employ a full-time neurologist or stroke expert can use telemedicine in a cost-effective way to care for patients who suffer strokes, a new study reports.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“To those of us inside the industry, implementing health IT and building a national health information infrastructure is a no-brainer. Do we really need to get consumers involved while physicians and IT folks are just getting started on its construction?
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Diario Médico
“El Servicio de Geriatría del Hospital Universitario de Getafe, en Madrid, ha puesto en marcha un proyecto de investigación basado en el uso de la telemedicina.
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Jones SS et al, Health Affairs, 2011
The federal government is currently offering bonus payments through Medicare and Medicaid to hospitals, physicians, and other eligible health professionals who meet new standards for “meaningful use” of health information technology. Whether these incentives will improve care, reduce errors, and improve patient safety as intended remains uncertain. We sought to partially fill this knowledge gap by evaluating the relationship between the use of electronic medication order entry and hospital mortality.
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HIS
“We live in a volatile and constantly changing world. Disasters, of the natural variety as well as man-made, seem to occur with an ever increasing frequency. Hurricanes, floods, fires and earthquakes have all held a prominent position within the landscape of the world’s events recently.
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Brien M. Posey, SearchHealthIT
“Health care organizations are generally required to ensure that their systems and the patient data that they contain remain highly available, and that measures are in place to prevent data loss. There are a number of different technologies that can be used, many of which revolve around redundancy and various forms of replication. This tip examines five common data replication strategies.
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Anne Zieger, EHR Outlook
“This week, I’m honored to be attending the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Scientific Assembly meeting in Orlando. While the focus here is on clinical practice topics, I’m talking with family doctors about the use of EHRs in their practices.
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