Ron Sterling, HITECHAnswers
“With paper exam notes, the doctor and staff record information and the note reflects what they recorded. Unfortunately, EHR based notes may not be as direct.
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“Garbage in, garbage out is a common expression that’s especially relevant to health IT. The quality of the data that goes into an e-prescribing program or clinical decision support system determines the accuracy of the diagnoses and treatment decisions coming out of your doctors and nurses.
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EurekAlert!
“A new data network that integrates emerging research on the molecular makeup of diseases with clinical data on individual patients could drive the development of a more accurate classification of disease and ultimately enhance diagnosis and treatment, says a new report from the National Research Council. The “new taxonomy” that emerges would define diseases by their underlying molecular causes and other factors in addition to their traditional physical signs and symptoms.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“Here’s some interesting and potentially important news. According to some recent news items, it seems that Mayo Clinic investigators are putting the finishing touches on a suite of tools which can identify and sort medical data contained in any electronic medical record.
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Jim Fuquay, Star-Telegram
“If a patient of Arlington physician Ignacio Nuñez shows up at the emergency room when the doctor is not at the hospital, he doesn’t have to wait long to start investigating what might be wrong.
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Gai Elhanan, Healthcare IT News
“The HITECH initiative and the promise of effectively coordinated care are fundamentally based on the adoption of standards as an integral part of the larger adoption of healthcare information technology. Numerous types of standards are being promoted, including messaging standards, secure communication standards and data standards. But perhaps, some of the most important standards are those that are not being enforced.
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Healthcare IT News
“For decades, researchers have used de-identified claims and prescription data from the Thomson Reuters MarketScan Research Databases to conduct studies that evaluate medical treatments — commonly called “outcomes research” or “comparative effectiveness research.”
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Allison Proffitt, BioIT World
“The Partnership to Advance Clinical electronic Research or PACeR (www.pacerhealth.org) was created to “convene the users and the collectors of the data to understand how we can safely reuse electronic medical record data to facilitate clinical research,” explains David Krusch, chief medical information officer at the University of Rochester Medical Center and chair of the PACeR leadership committee.
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TEDMED
“Your medical chart: it’s hard to access, impossible to read — and full of information that could make you healthier if you just knew how to use it. At TEDMED, Thomas Goetz looks at medical data, making a bold call to redesign it and get more insight from it.”
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Clinical data analytics holds a lot of promise for health care organizations: It can help a hospital bill and code services more effectively and accurately. It can yield insights into other operational processes, such as staff utilization and skills evaluation. Just as important, the access it gives many practitioners to deep patient-data search tools across many departments can help uncover problems, lead to new treatments and streamline workflows.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Electronic medical records carry the promise of physicians being able to analyze patient data to identify trends and patterns that might help patient care.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Healthcare providers and payers face complex challenges when trying to maximize the value of their clinical data, but their expectations for clinical analytics vary significantly, according to a new study.
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James Kretz, Behavioral Health Central
“A method is described for quickly establishing clinical data repositories and clinical data exchange while putting the control of patient privacy into the hands of patients.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Hospitals measure quality of care, and mark improvements by conducting patient and clinical data analysis. In recent years, software applications from such vendors as IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp. have made that time- and paper-intensive process more efficient.
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Andrew MacGarvey, Life Science Leader
“I have always had a great interest in data and how it is collected and handled; my career has included roles in statistical programming, database design, systems implementation, and electronic data capture (EDC). Anyone who works in these disciplines knows that as technology has advanced, more data has become available from increasingly diverse sources. The technical component of the role of a Clinical Data Manager has increased greatly during the last 10 years and is set to continue to do so.
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“Ocean Informatics, a recognised leader in eHealth strategy, interoperability and shared electronic health records (EHR), announces a new project with the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. The new project follows the successful completion of a pilot study, which tested content modelling as a technique for producing standardised structured clinical data specifications. NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH) has decided to continue to use the Ocean clinical modelling tools and openEHR archetypes and templates to help specify the information required to support safe and high quality health care across clinical systems in England. It is expected that over the next 6-9 months a national content models repository will evolve to provide significant support for the NHS in the specification of standardised content for clinical systems.”
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e-Health News Europe, 3 December 2007
“Many health care organizations initially used document management systems for relatively small projects. A lot of these early projects focused on meeting the needs of billing, medical records and registration departments.”
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Beckie Kelly Schuerenberg, Health Data Management, 1 August 2007
