Laura Landro, Wall Street Journal
“Hospitals that use a computerized medical-information tool to help doctors make decisions at the point of care have better patient outcomes than those who don’t, according to a new study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“We suspect there’s going to be a lot of arithmetic going on in Australian hospitals, after a new report claims that better use of advanced clinical information technology in English hospitals could substantially reduce “small errors” in hospitals, and help prevent 16,000 deaths a year.
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McMullen CK et al, Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(4)
Objective:
Recent legislation in the United States provides strong incentives for implementation of electronic health records (EHRs). The ensuing transformation in U.S. health care will increase demand for new methods to evaluate clinical informatics interventions. Timeline constraints and a rapidly changing environment will make traditional evaluation techniques burdensome. This paper describes an anthropological approach that provides a fast and flexible way to evaluate clinical information systems.
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Sari AK et al, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2011
The global effort in the standardization of electronic health records has driven the need for a model to allow medical practitioners to interact with the newly standardized medical information system by focusing on the actual medical concepts/processes rather than the underlying data representations. An archetype has been introduced as a model that represents functional health concepts or processes such as admission record, which enables capturing all information relevant to the processes transparently to the users. However, it is necessary to ensure that the archetypes capture accurately all information relevant to the archetype concepts. Therefore, a semantic backbone is required for each of the archetype.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“Small hospitals are eschewing traditional clinical information systems and favoring the larger players in the electronic health record (EHR) market, a recent research report from KLAS Enterprises LLC found.
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Hogarth M et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(5 S1)
The US health care system and its information access models are organized around institutions and providers. Patient-centered functionality is rarely present in prevailing information systems and, if present, it typically does not ideally support shared decision making about important treatment events.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“Alert Life Sciences has signed its third deal in the UK for its clinical information system and electronic patient record system.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new survey has found that nearly half of healthcare professionals are dissatisfied with their clinical information systems, frustrated by response times that can last a full minute, or even longer.
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