Central storage
Priya Ramachandran, EMR and EHR
“And while it’s easy for me to write a smart alecky blog post about the infeasibility of the mammoth database idea, I shudder when I think of what we have now: disjoint EHRs that don’t “speak” to one another, walled gardens and proprietary ownership of data that pretty much lock physician office in, PHR offerings from companies like Microsoft who will do God knows what with OUR health data.
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1 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Central storage, Ownership
Ryan McBride, FierceBiotech IT
“Now that the cost of sequencing DNA is quickly plummeting toward $1,000, some scientists in the U.K. are backing a plan to put citizens’ genomic data into a national database.
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31 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Central storage, Costs, Genomics
Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“All animals can exchange information when in proximity to each other. Humans advanced this useful exchange to occur when the interacting parties are far apart, which makes the human animal quite unique. First came human couriers carrying verbal information, followed by human couriers carrying written missives, then came technology.
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29 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Central storage, Health Information Exchange
Evan Godt, CMIO
“Implementation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solves most of the problems associated with PACS, can save money over the long term and can prepare an enterprise to participate in a health information exchange (HIE)
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Central storage, Health Information Exchange, PACS
Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“We passed the one thousand mark on products certified as EHR technologies for ambulatory care and the five hundred mark for inpatient care, and there is no relief in sight.
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24 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Central storage, Health Information Exchange
Bob Brewin, NextGov
“The Veterans Affairs Department will start to move data center operations that support its Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) electronic health records to data centers operated by the Defense Information Systems Agency in March.
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21 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Central storage, Data Storage
Hoechsmann A. CMAJ, 184(1)
Citing British government reports that recommend abandoning their centralized electronic health records (EHRs) project, Paul Christopher Webster continues his assertion that Canada Health Infoway’s vision of a centralized national health database is “not feasible.” However, focusing on the failures of EHRs may lead people to believe that all enterprise digital health solutions are doomed to fail.
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16 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tag(s): Central storage, emergency
David Catron, The American Spectator
“While armies of attorneys battle the Justice Department over Obamacare’s constitutionality, and politicians hold forth about their strategies for repealing and replacing the unpopular law, bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been working around the clock to assure that the President’s “signature domestic achievement” becomes a permanent fixture of your life. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her accomplice Donald Berwick have been promulgating regulations as quickly as their minions can get them written.
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18 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Central storage, Claims Data, Data Aggregation, Insurer, Privacy
Daniel Martin, Mail Online
“Ministers are to axe Labour’s disastrous £12billion NHS computer scheme.
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23 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Central storage, Failure
Daniel Martin, Mail Online
“By coincidence I have been doing the rounds recently asking industry experts why they think large IT projects fail. This is for a feature I am putting together, which will appear on Computer Weekly soon.
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23 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Central storage, Failure
Webster PC. CMAJ, 183(15)
“Canada should revisit its electronic health records (EHRs) strategy in the wake of British recommendations that its similar blueprint should be jettisoned as wasteful and flawed, experts say.
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23 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tag(s): Central storage
Cyrille Chausson, LeMagIT
“Le gouvernement de sa Gracieuse Majesté devrait abandonner son vaste projet de base de données centralisé de santé ou profit d’une gestion décentralisée des dossiers médicaux des patients britanniques.
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10 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Central storage, Failure
Gail Johnson, Straight.com
“A recent Canadian Medical Association news bulletin reported that the highly centralized EHR model that Infoway has adopted was largely discredited and discarded in the United Kingdom.
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19 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tag(s): Access, Central storage, Confidentiality, emr
Quantin C et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(1)
As patients often see the data of their medical histories scattered among various medical records hosted in several health-care establishments, the purpose of our multidisciplinary study was to define a pragmatic and secure on-demand based system able to gather this information, with no risk of breaching confidentiality, and to relay it to a medical professional who asked for the information via a specific search engine.
Scattered data are often heterogeneous, which makes the task of gathering information very hard. Two methods can be compared: trying to solve the problem by standardizing and centralizing all the information about every patient in a single Medical Record system or trying to use the data as is and find a way to obtain the most complete and the most accurate information. Given the failure of the first approach, due to the lack of standardization or privacy and security problems, for example, we propose an alternative that relies on the current state of affairs: an on-demand system, using a specific search engine that is able to retrieve information from the different medical records of a single patient.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Central storage, Data Storage, emr, Identifiers
Lucy Hornstein, KevinMD
“I love computers. Really, I do. Despite my oft-repeated claims about the shortcomings of electronic medical records in their current form, I do believe that information technology has the potential to be of great help to me and other physicians in providing quality care to Americans.
Stop laughing. I really mean it.
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8 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Central storage, Data Storage, emr, Image
John McPhee, The Chronicle Herald
“Despite millions of dollars and years of work, much remains to be done to exploit information technology in the health-care system.
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9 November 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tag(s): Central storage, Implementation
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“Over the last couple of years there have been a couple of issues I have been repeating time and again. Two articles this week showed that my emphasis and endurance were correct.
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23 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Central storage, ICD-10, SNOMED, Standards, summary-care-records
Michael Cross, Guardian.co.uk
“A central London health authority dealing with a population of homeless, mentally ill men once tried a new way of managing their health records. Instead of trying to chase down the right case notes every time a client encountered the NHS, it simply gave each one their own envelope to look after.
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10 August 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Access, Central storage
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“On the basis that what is reported, and it is similar to what I have seen in drafts of the Final Report, this seems to be what the NHHRC has in mind.
Let me say clearly and directly I disagree with just about every aspect of these proposals.
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20 July 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): Access, Central storage, Online
The Medical News
“The Australian Medical Association (AMA) which represents than 27,000 doctors across Australia has criticised the government’s plans for ‘e-health’ medical records reform.
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20 July 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): Access, Central storage, Consent, Incentives, Online
