Chloe Herrick, Computerworld
“The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has continued to lobby the government to change its $466.7 million e-health record system to an “opt-out” model, arguing that the current “opt-in” model will undermine the system’s health improvement objectives.
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De Telegraaf
“Er komt toch een Elektronisch Patiëntendossier (EPD) zonder dat de overheid daarbij is betrokken. Huisartsen, ziekenhuizen, apothekers en de Nederlandse Patiënten en Consumenten Federatie zijn het alsnog eens geworden over een doorstart van het EPD.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“The government wants to change the NHS Constitution so that patient information is automatically included in clinical research.
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BBC News
“Healthcare companies could be given access to anonymous NHS patient records and other NHS data under new plans.
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Dinesh Chandra Gaur, TopNews
“There are a lot of benefits to introduce an electronic health records system, but most importantly it would make the management of health records of 21st century level.
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Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Hospital Review
“U.S. patients have less control over the sharing of their electronic health records compared to European patients, according to a study (pdf) in the Journal of Science & Technology Law.
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David Perera, FierceGovernmentIT
“If medical practices are to take advantage of widespread electronic health records to create a “learning health system” in which patient data is aggregated and analyzed in order to provide better individual and population health care, regulations regarding which data constitute research and which constitute operations will need clarification, says the federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“The federal Health IT Policy committee has recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) not require patient consent for the use of electronic health record (EHR) data in research on improving the delivery of healthcare services. At the same time, however, the federal advisory body urged HHS to require healthcare organizations to follow “fair information practices” designed to protect patient privacy.
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Linda Davidson, e-Health Insider Acute
“There are now over nine million summary care records (SCRs) available for use in urgent and emergency care in England, the Ascribe User Conference heard this week.
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“In case you hadn’t heard, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Telehealth Advancement Act of 2011 last Friday. This opens the door for telemedicine to expand in California. GlobalMed applauds the action. Essentially, it will remove the law that has discouraged the implementation of telemedicine in much of the state. According to the bill, it doesn’t become law until January 1, 2013.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC’s) Office of the Chief Privacy Officer has awarded a $1.2 million contract to APP Design to support its e-Consent initiative, which seeks to find ways to educate patients about their options for sharing their health information.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT is trying to develop a more adequate method of documenting patient consent, when it comes to sharing and forwarding health information from one party to another, in the age of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs).
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded a $1.24 million contract to APP Design Inc. of Itasca, Ill., to develop and evaluate methods to electronically obtain from patients their consent about sharing their health data. ONC will begin the electronic consent project later this month.
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Nictiz
“Een goed beveiligd medisch kerndossier dat je snel en overzichtelijk kunt raadplegen. Maar liefst tien grote zorgpartijen in de regio Rijnmond onderschreven gisteren het belang van deze door het Zorgportaal Rijnmond ontwikkelde e-health toepassing.
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Margot Murphy McMahons Point, Sydney Morning Herald
“The federal government has released details of the personally controlled electronic health record system it will roll out in July 2012, at a cost of $460 million to the taxpayer (”Sceptics change tune on electronic records”, September 1).
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Hudson KL. N Engl J Med, 365(11)
A new generation of genomic technologies permits the increased collection of data on large study populations. New methods in informatics facilitate the integration of diverse types of information with genomic data in disease research. As a result, researchers are learning more about the genetic bases of disease and response to drugs.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Healthcare organizations are slowly turning to the cloud to run applications. That’s especially true for smaller healthcare providers who don’t have the IT staff or resources to roll out and support new in-house applications, let alone the hardware, networking, or other IT infrastructure that goes along with it.
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Dimitri Tokmetzis, Sargasso
“Het Elektronisch Patiënten Dossier (EPD) zal een private doorstart maken, tenminste als het aan een aantal zorgverzekeraars en artsen- en apotheekorganisaties ligt. Veel details zijn nog niet naar buiten gebracht, maar wat er bekend is, stelt al behoorlijk teleur.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“There seems to be no doubt that if opt-in is chosen that adoption will indeed be very slow indeed.
At the very least, before opt-out is considered, there does need to be the proper infrastructure, including NASH, in place and the education of users of all sorts needs to be fully implemented and delivered.
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Jolein de Rooij, Computable
“Nictiz maakt zich zorgen over de kosten van het vragen van toestemming aan patiënten voor verwerking van hun gegevens bij een eventuele landelijke doorstart van een elektronisch patiëntendossier (epd) zonder overheidssteun.
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