3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“Pulse, the UK’s leading weekly publication for UK GP’s, reports on the GPC’s warning to government on their plans to give patients online access to their full GP record by 2015 as part of its ‘Information Revolution’:
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Jennifer Dennard, EMR and EHR
“One foggy morning last week, I made my way to the Georgia State Capitol for a Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Health event relating to the intersection of healthcare IT and state legislation. Little did I know that the state’s government is somewhat unaware of the benefits HIT can bring, both to the patient in terms of more coordinated care and improved quality outcomes, and to the state in terms of job creation and revenue.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“It’s the start of a new benefits year for most employers, and workers are only beginning to tap into their companies’ offering of 2012 healthcare coverage. However, they can expect to face rising healthcare costs and be asked to pay larger co-pays and deductibles than ever if recent years are any indication.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“One of the persistent arguments arguments against ICD-10 coding is that it will have no effect on patient care.
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Nick Gardiner, The Recorder and Times
“Instead of days or even weeks, it took mere minutes to send medical records from Brockville General Hospital to local healthcare providers under a pilot project testing the benefits of electronic health records.
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Michael Martineau, Technology for Doctors Online
“My November commentary mused about the need for the health IT community to do a better job at selling eHealth to the public at large, and to the healthcare providers who will use it. Seems I’m not the only person having similar thoughts.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“U.S. physicians are less likely than doctors in other countries to think that healthcare IT can improve diagnostic decisions, according to a survey of 3,700 doctors in eight countries.
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Andis Robeznieks, ModernHealthcare
“Live interactive telemedicine consults with dermatologists appeared to result in improved treatment and positive outcomes, according to a report in the American Medical Association’s Archives of Dermatology journal.
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“Writing for the H&HN (Hospitals & Health Networks), Douglas Page finds that telemedicine is now a “must” that hospital CEOs can no longer afford to ignore. And he says that health systems are now tapping into the power of telemedicine technology at a “feverish pace.”
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“To doctors working in eight countries around the globe, the biggest benefit of health IT is better access to quality data for clinical access, followed by reducing medical errors, improving coordination of care across care settings, and improving cross-organizational workflow.
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FierceHealthIT
“An Accenture (NYSE: ACN) survey of more than 3,700 doctors across eight countries has found that healthcare IT is improving health practices and there is common agreement on the top benefits of technology across countries. But some physicians do not yet see all the benefits, especially those over 50 or those who are not actively using healthcare IT, such as electronic medical records (EMR) and health information exchanges (HIE).
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Doctors who routinely use health IT perceived more benefits in improving healthcare delivery, according to a new Accenture survey of more than 3,700 doctors across eight countries.
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Jeremy Wyatt, Guardian Professional
“The Whole System Demonstrators showed that, “if used correctly”, telehealth reduced death rates by 45%, NHS resource usage by 15-20% and tariff costs by 8%. With these striking results and the launch of the industry/NHS funded 3 Million Lives campaign, telehealth is steaming out of its backwater into the clinical mainstream.
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Ana Cantu, Forbes
“Experts estimate that 195,000 people die each year from medical errors in U.S. hospitals. That’s more than the annual number of deaths as a result of AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined.
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Patricia Salber, KevinMD
“I am a big fan of DIY (do-it-yourself) healthcare, at least for the bulk relatively minor issues that plague people. I think the days when doctors were needed to control, interpret and dole out health data and information are waning. There are simply too many ways, primarily via the internet, to get good, reliable, easy-to-understand information about our own health.
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Sheri Ross, Technology for Doctors Online
“Most of us have heard the old saying “Don’t sweat the small stuff” – in the world of medicine, however, sweating the small stuff is essential to the delivery of high-quality patient care.
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Adam Hill, InPharm
“The government’s Care Services minister Paul Burstow said telehealth and telecare, which employ electronic equipment in homes to read key health signs, would be extended over the next five years to reach three million people.
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Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“With the rapid adoption of telehealth programs around the U.S., critics complain that there’s simply too little research and hard data on its efficacy. But with physician shortages continuing, and few hospitals able to provide 24/7 physician coverage of their ICUs, the pressure to adopt telehealth measures continues to grow.
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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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Halamka JD. AHRQ, 2011
The Obama Administration is spending $27 billion dollars to accelerate the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) in pursuit of three policy goals: enhanced safety, improved quality, and increased efficiency. However, despite some evidence that electronic health records can achieve these goals, implementation can introduce new errors, new risks, and new challenges.
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