Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“A widely-used web-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, like Practice Fusion, holds the potential of health information exchange that is quite different than the traditional thinking of how health data can be shared between a referring doc A and a recipient doc B.
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Sally Whittle, Guardian Professional
“Over the past decade, the number of patients presenting with anxiety and depression has increased steadily, and the current recession has done little to help.
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“I see my doctor about once every 2-4 months (lately while we have been working through some issues). In between each visit my doctor sees a couple thousand other patients. I don’t expect him to remember my story in between each visit. But I do expect him to keep good track of what’s going on with me, and to refresh his memory before each of my visits.
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Tony Collins, Campaign4Change
“Last month the Department of Health briefed the Daily Mail on plans to dismantle the National Programme for IT. The result was a front page lead article in the Mail, under the headline:
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Roy Schoenberg, Health Management Technology
“Doctors, delivery systems, health plans and patients across the nation are now using telehealth to improve access to convenient, quality care. Think you know everything about what is really available today?
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Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser
“Mullins switched over to an electronic health record system, which helped him keep up with what his patients had done outside the office.
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Anne Zieger, EHR Outlook
“It may not be fun to consider this, but alas, we must. It appears that in the wrong circumstances, your EHR might pose new legal liabilities for your practice.
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David Catron, The American Spectator
“While armies of attorneys battle the Justice Department over Obamacare’s constitutionality, and politicians hold forth about their strategies for repealing and replacing the unpopular law, bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been working around the clock to assure that the President’s “signature domestic achievement” becomes a permanent fixture of your life. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her accomplice Donald Berwick have been promulgating regulations as quickly as their minions can get them written.
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Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Hospital Review
“Hospitals across the country are implementing electronic health records as they work towards meeting meaningful use requirements and receiving incentive payments. Physicians and other healthcare providers may need to alter their workflow as they transition from paper to electronic records. Physicians in the emergency department, however, may have more difficulty fitting EHRs in their workday due to the fast-paced environment.
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MarketWatch
“Differences in the quality and safety of medical treatment that minorities receive could be reduced through the better use of health information technology (HIT), according to a new article published in the October 2011 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety(TM).
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Nearly half of consumers have viewed or would be interested in seeing their electronic health records (EHRs), according to a new survey by Manhattan Research. But so far, that interest has not translated into a leap in the use of personal health record (PHR) applications to store that data.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“Federal HIT policymakers have dedicated themselves to moving the healthcare sector away from paper and into the digital future.
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Steve Dion, Kim Lorusso, The Healthcare IT Guy
“If you are in the healthcare provider industry and haven’t started preparing for ICD-10, you should be very concerned. ICD-10 compliance, beginning for ambulatory services and inpatient discharges on or after October 1, 2013, is often compared to Y2K and many believe it will be far more disruptive to the healthcare IT environment than Y2K. When we speak to most healthcare organizations about ICD-10 readiness, they start to turn ghost white or reach for the nearest bottle of antacids.
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Ashley Howland, HL7 Standards
“By now, we can all agree that we should be using social media as part of our overall business strategy in health care. There’s no question about that.
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Reda Chouffani, Healthcare IT Insider
“For many physicians who are not currently using electronic medical records are constantly being told through one form or the other of how EHR will help improve patient’s health, reduce their operational costs and allow them to see more patients. And study after study shows the benefits of capturing patient health information electronically.
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“Federal HIT policymakers have dedicated themselves to moving the healthcare sector away from paper and into the digital future.
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Jonathan French, HIMSS Blog
“The EHR Meaningful Use Program promises to revolutionize the practice of medicine – and similarly -presents a great opportunity to transform the practice of public health.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“Thanks to new PC-based software, patients living with cancer can track, organize document, monitor and share information associated with their illness, treatment and recovery.
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Debora MacKenzie, NewScientist
“The northern hemisphere’s flu season will soon be here. If you are getting vaccinated and tweet it, will your followers follow you to the doctor’s surgery – or are they the sort of people who have an appointment booked already?
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Salathé M, Khandelwal S. PLoS Comput Biol, 7(10)
There is great interest in the dynamics of health behaviors in social networks and how they affect collective public health outcomes, but measuring population health behaviors over time and space requires substantial resources. Here, we use publicly available data from 101,853 users of online social media collected over a time period of almost six months to measure the spatio-temporal sentiment towards a new vaccine. We validated our approach by identifying a strong correlation between sentiments expressed online and CDC-estimated vaccination rates by region.
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