Kerry Grens, Reuters
“Patients want easy access to any notes their doctor has recorded about them, and they want the right to let others view their medical information, according to a pair of U.S. studies.
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Feeley TW et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(12)
Physicians’ notes are one of the oldest tools in medicine and have evolved into today’s electronic medical record. As we move toward greater transparency in health care, one emerging concept is that sharing information among patients, caregivers, and involved clinicians can improve efficiency, decrease redundancy, and decrease cost. The concept of improving health care delivery by sharing the medical record with the patient is not new.
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Zulman DM et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(12)
Background:
Electronic personal health record (PHR) systems are proliferating but largely have not realized their potential for enhancing communication among patients and their network of care providers.
Objective:
To explore preferences about sharing electronic health information among users of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) PHR system, My HealtheVet.
Design:
Web-based survey of a convenience sample.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“It’s been almost 40 years of publications and studies supporting patients in seeing the full content of their medical records, and physicians are still divided in their feelings about this. I personally experience this pretty regularly in dialogue with my health care colleagues.
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Walker J et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(12)
Background:
Little is known about what primary care physicians (PCPs) and patients would expect if patients were invited to read their doctors’ office notes.
Objective:
To explore attitudes toward potential benefits or harms if PCPs offered patients ready access to visit notes.
Design:
he PCPs and patients completed surveys before joining a voluntary program that provided electronic links to doctors’ notes.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“In 2010, the Veterans Administration launched the Blue Button, a standards format that allows simple exchange of a patient’s personal health data. Initially designed for use by veterans, the idea has taken off in the private sector and has been supported by at least one major care provider overseas.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“It’s not uncommon to read how ICD-10 will make things difficult for healthcare providers.
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Dick Weisinger, FormTek Blog
“It’s a matter of trust. And a majority of patients still aren’t sure that they can yet trust the idea of Electronic Helath Records.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“The number of physicians using smartphones has reached a near-saturation point. Meanwhile, the number of data breaches is going up.
Coincidence? Leading experts think not.
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Ron Sterling, HITECHAnswers
“On October 1, 2013, practices will start submitting claims using the ICD-10 coding system. Any practice planning on using EHR systems to facilitate the transition to ICD-10 needs to take a close look at the practicality of implementing an EHR in time to support ICD-10 coding.
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Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times
“One afternoon last spring, Micky Tripathi received a panicked call from an employee. Someone had broken into his car and stolen his briefcase and company laptop along with it.
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Robert Teague, Washington Report
“In a country where half of all hospitals, and virtually all primary care physicians, use a nationally networked electronic medical record (EMR)system, Denmark leads the rest of the world in digital care.
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Dave Chase, Forbes
“In 2006, Microsoft acquired a health care computing system called Amalga, which aggregates health care data so doctors and hospitals can draw broader conclusions and patients can use it for better care.
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InformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“A new perspective piece has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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James Ellis and Aaron Razavi, Healthcare IT News
“The amount of office based physicians using electronic health records (EHRs) is up 12% from 2010 according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.
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Ángel Díaz, El Mundo
“Tromso, a veces llamada la ‘puerta del Ártico’, es una pequeña ciudad, de alrededor de 66.000 habitantes, en el norte de Noruega. Es también uno de los principales focos de desarrollo de la telemedicina y la informática médica o ‘e-salud’, motivo por el cual Luis Fernández Luque, onubense de nacimiento e ingeniero informático de carrera, decidió instalarse en esta gélida pero sugerente población.
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Edgar Camelo, TICBeat
“La revolución tecnológica que estamos viviendo abarca todos los aspectos de la sociedad, incluidas, por supuesto, la medicina y la salud.
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Philippa Roxby, BBC News
“First thing in the morning, Terry Munro always puts the kettle on.
“Then I take my blood sugar, take my blood pressure and my weight and in that time the kettle’s boiled.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“The market for health and wellness has traditionally included over-the-counter medicines, gym memberships, and vitamins/minerals/supplements. In 2012, the boundaries of health/wellness are blurring beyond these line items toward preventive medical services and consumer electronics.
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