Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“The government is clearly intent on discouraging health workers from idly perusing patient files within the PCEHR, with Health Minister Nicola Roxon outlining draft laws which would impose fines of $13,200 for individuals and $66,000 for organisations which unnecessarily accessed the record of any patient.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Electronic health records contain features, such as templates, which can help providers reduce the risk of malpractice litigation. But the misuse of EHRs actually can cause providers to be more vulnerable to such lawsuits, according to a recent article in MDNews.com.
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Priya Ramachandran, EMR and EHR
“While I am fascinated by InformaticsMD’s write-up, I don’t fully agree with the apparent conclusion reached – namely that “EMR’s can detract from a clear narrative, and facilitate spoliation and obfuscation of evidence presented.”
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“An electronic health record (EHR) is more than just an electronic representation of a paper chart. It is a legal representation of a patient’s medical condition and treatment at a given point in time, one that could be admissible in court. And that could present a whole new set of challenges for healthcare organizations.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives is calling on the HHS Office for Civil Rights to tone down its requirements on the information that should be available to consumers in access reports under a final rule to account for disclosures of protected health information.
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Jason Bloomberg, Sys-Con Media
“If you don’t realize by now that Cloud Computing has its risks, then, well, you must have your head in the clouds. But then again, without risk there is no reward. When you place a bet on the Cloud, you know you’re betting on an emerging set of capabilities. And in any case, there are risks everywhere in business. Why should the Cloud be any different?
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Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“The electronic health record (EHR) is a constantly evolving digital chronicle of a patient’s health–data is placed in the EHR, data is deleted or changed for various reasons. This ongoing process, though, has caught the eye of legislators in California who want to make it more difficult for healthcare providers to surreptitiously make changes in EHRs–especially when bad or poor patient outcomes might occur.
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Hripcsak G et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Objective
To measure the time spent authoring and viewing documentation and to study patterns of usage in healthcare practice.
Design
Audit logs for an electronic health record were used to calculate rates, and social network analysis was applied to ascertain usage patterns. Subjects comprised all care providers at an urban academic medical center who authored or viewed electronic documentation.
Measurement
Rate and time of authoring and viewing clinical documentation, and associations among users were measured.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? The philosophical question that meshes observation and knowledge is relevant to the argument of whether paper records are more secure than EHRs.
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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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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’ll start off with one unexpected benefit of an EMR: audit logs.
There’s so many things you can do with audit logs. It resolves so many issues with accountability for a record.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Over the past month, the HIT Standards Committee and its Privacy and Security Workgroup have discussed the simplest set of security standards for 2011 and beyond.
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Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
“A federal advisory panel on patient privacy wants encryption, strong access controls and audits to protecting patients’ medical records under the program advanced by the economic stimulus law, according to the co-chair of the group.
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Julie Barnes, The New Health Dialogue
“The good news is that personal health information is becoming more accessible to patients and providers via technology. That’s also the bad news. Americans are comfortable with credit card and banking information traveling in cyberspace, but they are anxious about medical information hackery and thievery.
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Zaugg, Gesundheitsdaten im Netz
“In Dänemark ist E-Health bereits seit Mitte der 90-er Jahre umgesetzt. Auf dem Gesundheitsportal www.sundhed.dk existiert ein öffentlich zugänglicher und ein geschützter Bereich. Im öffentlichen Bereich sind beispielsweise Informationen zu Ärzten und Spitälern aufgeführt.
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“This is the first story in an in-depth, three-part series on health information security issues and technologies in Health Data Management during 2009. We will offer six other series throughout the year covering patient safety, executive management, revenue cycle management, EHR achievement, information exchange, and hardware.
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Sindya Bhanoo, The Industry Standard
“The stimulus bill that President Barack Obama signed last week has a $19-billion section devoted to a nationwide transition to electronic medical records, one of his administration’s highest priorities.
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Mark Leavitt, EHR Decisions
“The New York Times printed a letter I submitted in response to a Jan. 18 article by reporter Robert Pear about privacy of patient data in electronic form, in which consumer groups and some members of Congress rightly express concern that President Obama’s plan to stimulate the use of information technology in the healthcare field presents challenges to individual privacy unless there are strong privacy safeguards.
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