Rob Brull, HL7 Standards
“Several questions can arise when considering whether to parse the data of a CCD document from a remote facility and merge it into the local EHR. HIEs are spurring increased emphasis on the use of CCD documents to exchange information among facilities, so it would be ideal to have consistent practices regarding the merging of the received data into the existing EHR.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Much of the vision of how the nation’s healthcare system should ideally function, once moved from its paper-based legacy onto an electronic platform, involves the sharing of clinical information between different places and systems. After all, a given patient typically sees about 19 different physicians in a lifetime – which means that an individual’s health story is fragmented across a diverse landscape.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Using a Beacon grant provided by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, the Mayo Clinic is building what may be the next generation of health information exchanges (HIE) with a group of healthcare providers in southeast Minnesota. In this real-world demonstration, Mayo will apply the computer tools it is developing through a federal SHARP grant to create new methods of mining electronic health record (EHR) data.
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Fred Trotter
“The blue button initiative was a good initiative because it allowed greater access. It made that possible by ensuring that access to patient data did not have to wait for the VA/DOD/Whatever to create a download that conformed to the still-forming XML standards that make true interoperability possible.
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Ken Terry, Physicians Practice
“During the past year, there has been an upsurge in the number of doctors using patient Web portals, say healthcare consultants and EHR vendors. While the drive to show “meaningful use” of EHRs is fueling much of this new interest, the value of a patient portal can go far beyond that, some physician practices have discovered.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Yesterday, CMS posted an important FAQ clarifying the Meaningful Use requirement to exchange key clinical information.
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Yahoo News
“Health Level Seven International (HL7®) today announced the release of the Plan-to-Plan Personal Health Record (PHR) Data Transfer Implementation Guide. The HL7 CCD guide was created for the U.S. payer stakeholder community and is intended to be used with the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 Patient Information (275) Implementation Guide, to ensure consistency in the implementation of U.S. realm PHR data transfer functions between health plans.
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Jenny Laurello, HealthITExchange
“I recently reached out to Dr. David Kibbe, senior advisor to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and driving force behind their Center for Health IT, to hear his perspective on the future of both Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault’s personal health records (PHR) systems. Specifically, I was interested in hearing Dr. Kibbe’s perspective in regards to the the prolific Continuity of Care Record (CCR) vs. Continuity of Care Document (CCD) standards debate, which has sparked a lot of conversation in the health care industry about the future of both platforms.
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Collins SA et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2011
Purpose
The aims of this systematic review were: 1) to analyze the content overlap between nurse and physician hospital-based handoff documentation for the purpose of developing a list of interdisciplinary handoff information for use in the future development of shared and tailored computer-based handoff tools, and 2) to evaluate the utility of the Continuity of Care Document (CCD) standard as a framework for organizing hospital-based handoff information for use in electronic health records (EHRs).
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Gregg Alexander, IHIIP
“A recent change in working arrangements led to the need to look into the exchange of a few hundred patients’ records, from one well-known EHR system to another very prominent company’s system.
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Teixeira PA et al, Patient Education and Counseling, 2010
Objective
To assess the attitudes of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) towards having their personal health information (PHI) stored and shared electronically.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Google announced on Wednesday that it’s no longer developing Google Wave, its Web application for real-time communication and collaboration, as a standalone product. It’s unclear if this will impact whether the company continues to develop the idea of using the Google Wave Protocol to represent individuals’ health records.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“The July HIT Standards Committee meeting focused on a review of the final Meaningful Use/Standards regulations and the processes for the next stage of our work.
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Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
“Google Wave, envisioned as a reinvention of e-mail, is not likely to replace e-mail anytime soon. But Google may have found a use for its real-time communications platform beyond puzzling people.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Since the Final Meaningful Use and Standards Rules were released last week, many people have emailed me questions, which I’d like to share generally. My blog is not reviewed by ONC or CMS, so these answers are my own opinion.
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Chuck Appleby, Healthcare Informatics
“The computer is the network” goes the famous Sun Microsystems advertising tagline; some consider it one of the smartest marketing slogans ever conceived, because it actually has meaning. Put simply, the phrase implies that all of a network’s resources are available on the user’s computer to the point they appear to be part of the user’s desktop.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Why can’t I just take my Electronic Health Record (EHR) charts and move them from one system to another one? This seemingly-simple question has vexed builders of a national Health IT infrastructure, and leaves us with the dissatisfying answer of “it’s not that easy.”
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Ravi Sharma, Healthcare IT News Priming the Pump
“The stated aim of the financial incentives offered for EHR adoption under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is to encourage “the use of certified EHR technology in a meaningful manner.”
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Ravi Sharma, Healthcare IT News Priming the Pump
“The stated aim of the financial incentives offered for EHR adoption under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is to encourage “the use of certified EHR technology in a meaningful manner.”
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Anthony Guerra, HealthSystemCIO
“I am doing a project on EMRs for my graduate IT class at Xavier University in Cincinnati. My own topic centers on what happens to all the valuable data in the legacy paper records come day-forward? I read that many physician groups are simply scanning them into pdf format so they can be stored electronically, but this makes the files worthless from a data mining/ physician query standpoint.
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