News
Medical Cloud Computing: Is Your Cell Phone Smarter Than Your Doctor?
Robin A. Felder, HIMSS News
“The greatest social and financial impact of modern genetics on our healthcare system will be the prevention of disease and disability. Chronic disease causes the largest amount of morbidity and mortality to society and accounts for more than 80 percent of healthcare costs. For example, over 50 percent of the adult population (1.56 billion worldwide by 2025) has either hypertension and/or salt sensitivity (American Heart Association, 2009).
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Categories: News | Country: USA | Tags: Cellphone, Cloud
Taking a byte out of electronic medical records
Howard Homler, Modern Medicine
“Electronic medical records (EMRs) offer key benefits: improved legibility, electronic linking with other healthcare professionals, cross-referencing medications for formularies and checking for drug interactions, easier storage, and quality-of-care indicator monitoring.
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Categories: News | Country: USA | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr
States need to build independent consent tools for HIE
Deborah C. Peel, Healthcare IT News
“A disturbing new trend is emerging when Americans find out that bio-data is being used for purposes they never agreed to: Lawsuits are being filed against state agencies and state universities when residents find out that sensitive health information is used in ways they never expected or gave permission for.
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Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: USA | Tags: Audit, Consent, Health Information Exchange, Personal Health Information
SCR suffers from variable GP data
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“A confidential draft report from the evaluation of the Summary Care Record says data uploaded from GP practices is sometimes wrong but that the SCR can be useful when the data is accurate, Computer Weekly magazine has reported.
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Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adverse Drug Reactions, GP, Medication, summary-care-records
Getting Patient’s Stories: Chapter Two
Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News - Priming the Pump
“A couple months ago, we pointed to the concerns many doctors have about the capacity of EHRs to capture the details they rely on when diagnosing patients.
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Categories: News | Country: USA | Tags: Narrative, Patient
MMR Information Systems, Inc. CEO Answers Parade Magazine Article Citing Electronic Health Records
EMR Daily News
“Robert H. Lorsch, Chief Executive Officer of MMR Information Systems, Inc. in a presentation to a large Los Angeles-based Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Practice Group regarding the Company’s professional products and services, commented on an article that appeared in the Sunday, March 14 issue of Parade magazine published in newspapers throughout the United States.
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Categories: News | Country: USA | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Industry
Epocrates EHR – Coming this Fall
Joseph Kim, Medicine and Technology
“We know that Epocrates has already announced that they’re developing an electronic health record (EHR). That announcement came out during HIMSS.
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Categories: News | Country: USA | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Industry
CSC wins Danish adverse incidents deal
Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“CSC has signed a major contract with the Danish National Board of Health to provide a national adverse incident system to allow patients and professionals to report adverse events encountered across the entire health service.
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Categories: News | Country: Denmark | Tags: Adverse Events, Industry, Patient Safety, Reporting
EMR Backups
John, EMR and HIPAA
“First and foremost, I can’t believe you think that doctors will trust an EMR vendor to back up their EMR appropriately. I mean seriously, we’re talking about my whole clinical practice stored on your servers and trusting that your IT staff are doing my backups? I don’t think so. I barely trust my own staff to do backups, so why would I trust my EMR vendor’s staff to do something as important as the backups of my EMR?
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Categories: News | Country: USA | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, vendors
E-Patients: Please Have Your Voices Heard!
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“On the 5th week of my Internet in Medicine university accredited course, I talk about e-patients and how they will change medicine. Last semester, Kerri Morrone Sparling kindly accepted my invitation and uploaded a video to Youtube which students could watch during and after the course.
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Categories: News | Tags: e-patient, Narrative, Video
The personal health record is failing patients
KevinMD.com
“A personal health record (PHR) has been touted as a way for patients to better keep track of their health information. Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault lead the way.
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Categories: News | Country: USA | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: phr
EHR Certification Does Not Equal Meaningful Use
David Lee, EMR and EHR
“It is likely that CCHIT will be one of the accredited certification body under the EHR incentive program. HOWEVER, given that there is no formal EHR certification program available from ONC yet, no existing certification, including from CCHIT, means much towards meaningful use.
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Categories: News | Country: USA | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Certification, Meaningful Use
Harry Brown: Online security and safety
Harry Brown, BMJ Blogs
“It is amazing that in a relatively short period of time, many of us have come to rely so much, on the online world for some of our standard services. That could be buying books or groceries, banking and if you are a medic –education, learning and professional development.
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Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Online, Safety, Security
PCTI delivers to GPs in Herefordshire
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Herefordshire is delivering discharge summaries and radiology report messages to its 24 GP practices using software from document management specialists PCTI.
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Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Discharge Summary, GP
New patient medical records database ‘contains life-threatening errors’
David Rose, The Times
“The new system of electronic patient records being introduced across England is unreliable and contains inaccuracies that could put lives at risk. A draft report on the Government’s plan to create health records for 50 million people reveals that the national database contains serious errors and omissions.
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Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Consent, summary-care-records
Five Innovative Telemedicine Solutions
Greg Bartlett, Medical Smartphones
“Regardless of advances in communications and GPS tracking technology, we’re still a long way off from seeing widespread practical implementation of telemedicine. Yet for some patients in certain areas of the globe, remote monitoring is the only viable solution. For those with unique problems, doctors and tech experts are crafting some very unique solutions.
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Categories: News | Country: USA | Tags: GPS, smartphone, Telemedicine
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Selects Allscripts EHR and Practice Management for More Than 100 Providers
EMR Daily News
“Allscripts announced today that Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solution to automate and connect clinical and business functions for their 106 employed providers. The hospital’s 33 Family Medicine residents also will utilize Allscripts in treating patients in the outpatient setting.
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Categories: News | Country: USA | EHR: EHR, EHR USA
Just Between Us Girls, iVillage Launches Health Site for Women
“iVillage, one of the largest Web sites for women, is hoping to capitalize on a female penchant for seeking help online for health concerns or questions — especially those they are too embarrassed to discuss with anyone else.
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Categories: News | Country: USA | Tags: Health Information, Portal
Lester Hicks — a stroke recovery success story
Carolyn Levesque, the Daily Observer
“Telemedicine Network (OTN) which uses live, two-way television and digital image transfer to “connect” local stroke patients and their emergency physicians with remote neurologists located at larger urban health care facilities to obtain urgent diagnosis and management advice.
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Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tags: Stroke, Telemedicine
Patients+Families waiting on data
Dana Blankenhorn, SmartPlanet
“No one goes into a disease process alone. There are families, and there may be close friends. Whenever someone is sick, little micro-communities form.
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Categories: News | Country: USA | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Patient, phr
