Carina van Aartsen, Zorgvisie
“Alles ligt klaar: een landelijke infrastructuur om elektronische patiëntendossiers op te laten draaien en informatie uit te wisselen. Minstens veertien jaar gepraat en naar schatting 300 miljoen euro heeft het gekost, maar dan heb je ook wat. Of toch niet?
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Angela Haupt, US News
“Thomas Lee’s business cards are stamped with the link to his Facebook page. The orthopedic surgeon actively tweets, checks in regularly on FourSquare, and maintains a GooglePlus profile. And he does it for his patients.
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AHRQ news
“Physician practices and pharmacies generally view electronic prescribing as an important tool to improve patient safety and save time, but both groups face barriers to realizing the technology’s full benefit, according to a study funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The study is published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Grossman JM et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Objective
A core feature of e-prescribing is the electronic exchange of prescription data between physician practices and pharmacies, which can potentially improve the efficiency of the prescribing process and reduce medication errors. Barriers to implementing this feature exist, but they are not well understood. This study’s objectives were to explore recent physician practice and pharmacy experiences with electronic transmission of new prescriptions and renewals, and identify facilitators of and barriers to effective electronic transmission and pharmacy e-prescription processing.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“Philips recently launched an iPad app, Vital Signs Camera, that measures the user’s heart rate and breathing via the tablet’s front-facing camera. The $0.99 app, available only for the iPad 2, is intended for entertainment purposes only.
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Jennifer Prestigiacomo, Healthcare Informatics
“It’s fascinating to see the array of opinions on the thorny issue of ICD-10, which the industry is racing forward to a comply with the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline. The most recent waves that were made on this topic was on Nov. 15 when the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician association, took a vocal stand against ICD-10 implementation during its semi-annual policy making session.
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Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“The name change from SCAMC to AMIA has not fundamentally altered how medical informatics is perceived. Doctors that practice the computer trade can be very knowledgeable and technically proficient but they have not, for the most part, succeeded in convincing universities that they are scientists, and frankly, most aren’t. Scientists get Nobel Prizes, practitioners get board certified. In retrospect, even those that lamented the lack of academic recognition have fostered the view that it is not science.
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Jennifer Dennard, Healthcare IT News
“I recently got a pleasant healthcare surprise while listening to one of my favorite radio stations here in Atlanta. In between some really good jazz tunes, Clark Atlanta University’s WCLK radio station played what to me seemed like a public service announcement from Medicare.
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Peter J. Polack, KevinMD
“Our practice went live with our own EMR system in late 2008. For the most part, this was uneventful. The reason for this was mainly due to proper planning. And credit for our implementation plan goes primarily to our administrator, our IT director, and staff members of our appointed EMR committee. Although some of the physicians were an integral part of the committee, we tried our best not to micromanage the process.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“The proposed rule, released Sept. 12, would modify HIPAA and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988 in order to lift rules preventing patients from obtaining their test results without the consent of their health care provider.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“One out of four healthcare providers are now using tablets in their practice, with another 21% expecting to do so in the next 12 months, and more than half are using a smartphone at work.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Social media, privacy and security, and health insurance exchanges (HIXs) will be among the top issues in health care in 2012, according to a report by consulting firm PwC’s Health Research Institute.
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Vega LC et al, Health and Technology, 2011
With the exploding growth of the web, health websites have become a dominant force in the realm of health care. Technically savvy patients have been using the web not only to self inform but to self diagnose. In this paper we examine the trust relationship between humans and health websites by outlining the existing literature on trust in health websites. A total of 49 papers were examined using a meta-analytical framework.
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Jeff Rowe, Government Health IT
“A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) found mixed results when researchers looked at the impact of EHRs on health outcomes at three Minneapolis area emergency departments(EDs).
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Hospitals are spending millions installing and upgrading electronic health record (EHR) systems in pursuit of federal bonuses for Meaningful Use of EHRs. But they may want to rethink their IT priorities, a longtime industry watcher said.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new report from IDC Health Insights predicts the market for ambulatory EHRs will grow significantly in the coming years, moving from less than 25 percent adoption in 2009 to more than 80 percent by 2016.
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Carole Ditosti, Technorati
“The complaints about healthcare not updating to current technology trends have persisted for years, especially with regard to patient records and hospital protocols with medications, surgery check lists, etc.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“A new report published in the Journal of Patient Safety advocates creation of an independent national board to monitor and improve the safety of electronic health records. Among other duties, the board would have the power to implement unannounced, randomly scheduled, on-site EHR safety inspections.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Because of recent major healthcare information breaches, and tough federal fines for HIPAA infractions, organizations are placing a stronger emphasis on regulatory compliance, says Adam Greene.
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Bemister TB, Dobson KS. Canadian Psychology, 52(4)
The Canadian literature is void of contemporary guidelines for clinical record keeping for psychologists, as the most recent article was published more than two decades ago (Eberlein, 1990). However, the techniques used in record keeping have greatly advanced, specifically with regard to the role of computers and the use of electronic documents. Furthermore, new legislation and guidelines have been developed in response to these technological advancements.
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