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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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released an advance on a proposed rule about the use of existing metadata standards to support electronic health information exchange and to get feedback on the experience from various organizations that may have applied them.
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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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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT could include measures for the use and promotion of patient portals and direct access to their data in the next stage of meaningful use. Patient data could also be downloaded to a personal health record.
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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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David C. Kibbe and Brian Klepper, Government Health IT
“Nowhere has the Obama’s administration’s activities to unfreeze private markets been more dramatic than in the health IT products and services sector, especially for electronic health records (EHRs).
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David C. Kibbe, Care And Cost
“In a December 8 report, “Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward,” the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) urgently recommend departing from much current HIT practice in America’s hospitals, doctors’ offices, pharmacies, labs, and patient’s homes. PCAST calls on ONC to accelerate making health data easily accessible, interpretable by computers, and searchable on the web.
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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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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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Fowad Choudhry and Thomas Deas Jr., ModernHealthcare
“Relevant, quality patient care relies on comprehensive clinical information available at the point of care. To fully transform its paper-based healthcare delivery system into an electronic and integrated care model, North Texas Specialty Physicians, an independent physician association based in Fort Worth, invested more than $10 million into the development of an interoperable health information exchange.
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Joe Flower, The Health Care Blog
“The country seems to have shifted in less than 18 months from a slogan of “Yes We Can!” to “Oh, well…” and a shrug, then back to “Cool! I think. What was that, really?” Hopes for a true rebirth of health care turned into the Year of Screaming Inanely, then took that long slide from what we might hope for to what we might settle for.
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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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Spyropoulos, B. et al, Methods of Information in Medicine, 49(2)
Objectives:
A significant portion of care related to cardiorespiratory diseases is provided at home, usually but not exclusively, after the discharge of a patient from hospital. It is the purpose of the present study to present the technical means which we have developed, in order to support the adaptation of the continuity of care of cardiorespiratory diseases at home.
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“John Moore of Chilmark Research and I agree on things 90+ percent of the time. He even thanked me personally for our collegial relationship in a Thanksgiving Day essay on his blog.
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John, EMR and EHR
“I’ve been really interested in the various standards of interoperability in healthcare. I previously posted a bunch of random items related to CCR and CCD in healthcare. I remember when CCR first came out. It was a very exciting movement to try and make EMR software interoperable.
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