Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“A survey of hospital CIOs indicates that hospitals are not moving as rapidly as expected to achieve Meaningful Use of electronic health records. But the executives’ confidence level that their facilities will reach that goal has risen since a similar poll conducted last March.
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MarketWatch
“The only way we will achieve a truly effective nationwide system of electronic health records connecting virtually every physician and hospital is by offering office-based physicians a free EHR. By free, I mean a reliable, easy-to-use, meaningful-use certified, web-based ambulatory EHR offered to physicians through an ad-supported model.
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eHealth Initiative
“A common theme in discussions about the use of health information technology (HIT) and health information exchange (HIE) is the technical challenge of actually sharing data.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“It is recommended that doctors receive three to five days of initial training to adequately use their EHRs, but a new report indicates that this requirement is not being met.
The report, released by AmericanEHR Partners, highlights physicians’ experiences with the usability of EHRs to achieve some meaningful use requirements.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Alexander Stemer, MD, president and CEO of Medical Specialists Centers of Indiana, said that even as the practice converted to an electronic medical record system, it “wanted to preserve the quality of physician-patient relationships by not subbing face time with screen time.”
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Chances are, if you’re managing a hospital’s EHR workflow, someone still needs paper, and it’s a hassle moving data from paper into the EHR. Maybe someone is using intake forms for inpatients, or signed consents for same-day surgery patients.
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Warren JC et al, Health and Technology, 2011
The importance of telehealth strategies in addressing the health needs of rural residents has been well documented. A core problem in enacting telehealth strategies for patient education in rural settings, however, is a lasting perception that rural residents do not have access to, comfort with, or willingness to use varying emerging technologies. The current study was undertaken to simultaneously investigate access to technologies, comfort with technologies, and willingness to participate in technology-based interventions among high-need rural clinical populations. A sample of 199 patients was recruited at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in the rural South using convenience sampling. Participants completed a battery of assessments addressing technology access, use, and comfort as well as likelihood of participating in intervention modalities.
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“De Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg (IGZ) eist dat zorgverleners uiterlijk in 2013 de uitwisseling van medische gegevens van patiënten verbeteren. Anders krijgen huisartsen, apothekers, ziekenhuizen en verpleeghuizen zo’n uitwisselingssysteem opgelegd. Dat zegt de IGZ in het vandaag verschenen rapport De Staat van de Gezondheidszorg 2011.
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Amanda Buie, Healthcare IT Solutions
“Data in and of itself has no value. To add value data must be “crunched” or analyzed to examine changes, predict impacts and determine what is working and what isn’t working. There are some “formulas” at work here:
Date + Meaning = Information (data crunching)
Information + Experience + Context = Knowledge (someone using the information)
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John Moehrke, Healthcare Security/Privacy
“Sometimes one needs to have both a Digital Signature and protect the content with Document Encryption. The Digital Signature (DSG) content profile from IHE provides the Digital Signature.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“During the change to an electronic medical record system, the focus for many practices is on how data will be collected, stored and analyzed going forward. But in most cases, there are many years’ worth of historical data in paper files that physicians will need post-EMR.
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Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe
“Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have launched a massive study to test cancer patients’ tumors for hundreds of genetic aberrations in an effort to build a more comprehensive understanding of the underpinnings of cancer and how to tailor patients’ treatment.
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Lesley Stahl, CBS News
“Autistic people whose condition prevents them from speaking are making breakthroughs with the help of tablet computers and special applications that allow them to communicate, some for the first time. Lesley Stahl reports.”
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Wireless mobile technologies have great potential to improve global health. But the challenges facing the implementation of mobile health IT worldwide are different than those faced by the efforts to use health IT in the U.S. to transform patient outcomes.
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Apiscam
“Osabide Global, la historia clínica electrónica única de Osakidetza, ha sido reconocida con el premio a la mejor experiencia sanitaria para la mejora de la calidad y la seguridad de los pacientes en España, reconocimiento que otorga la Sociedad Española de Calidad Asistencial, SECA, referencia nacional en la materia.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Awarepoint, a San Diego-based vendor of real-time location systems (RTLS) for healthcare environments, will integrate its technology with Meditech’s enterprise electronic health record (EHR) in an effort to improve throughput and patient safety in hospital emergency departments.
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Paul Lynch, Tory McJunkin, Randy Braunm, Pain Medicine News
“My IT [information technology] manager has submitted several proposals for purchasing new software and hardware to supplement our current systems. All of our systems are working now, so I can’t help but think most of these updates are unnecessary.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Haider AH, Pronovost PJ. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 37(10)
Racial disparities in health care delivery and patient outcomes exist and persist unabatedly in the health care system in the United States. One potentially modifiable mechanism for disparities attributed to health care is the quality of care provided to minorities. Minorities tend to receive lower-quality health care even when insurance status and income are controlled. Black patients receive less intensive hospital care, for example, receiving fewer cardiac procedures, lung resections for cancer, and kidney and bone marrow transplants.
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Weissman JS, Hasnain-Wynia R. N Engl J Med, 364(24)
Health care reform’s promise will not be realized if it fails to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care. The first step toward monitoring, identifying, and targeting the underlying causes of disparities is for health care organizations to collect and analyze data that adequately describe their populations. No single entity has the capacity to analyze disparities for the entire country, and one of the largest and most comprehensive sources of utilization — health insurance claims — lacks basic demographic data on the race and ethnic background of enrollees. It is therefore worthwhile to examine the status of data collection and future options.
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