Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“In 2010, the Veterans Administration launched the Blue Button, a standards format that allows simple exchange of a patient’s personal health data. Initially designed for use by veterans, the idea has taken off in the private sector and has been supported by at least one major care provider overseas.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has given the green light to a proposed arrangement that would allow providers’ medical data stored in their electronic health records to be shared for the purpose of referring patients to each other.
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Marie Carniello, Technology for Doctors Online
“I recently attended two healthcare conferences, featuring speakers from across Canada and the United States. I returned to my office feeling truly excited about the future and how the delivery of healthcare is being transformed in response to advances in healthcare informatics. The speakers brought to light how a number of larger facilities (hospitals, CCACs, lab repositories, etc.) have bridged some of the interoperability and interconnectivity issues between legacy systems.
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Richard D. Marks, HIMSS News
“The de-Googlization of digital personal health records – Google’s decision to terminate Google Health and abandon the PHR field – offers two lessons with consequences. First, not everything can be Googlized. Second, building digital health record systems consumers will accept is very difficult.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“The greatest challenge to making the health service information-driven is cultural, not technical, a new report has suggested.
The report commissioned by BCS Health canvassed the views of NHS and non-NHS organisations on the current state of health information practices.
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Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today
“State health departments have made steady progress in implementing electronic systems to track and share data on the prevalence of diseases, but states use varying tracking systems that may not work together as well as they should, according to a report from the CDC.
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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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Amanda Buie, Healthcare IT Solutions
“If the $19 billion in stimulus money allocated for the adoption of EHRs wasn’t an indicator that EHRs are a critical piece to the industry, then the U.S. Surgeon General’s announcement that they will be pushing the EHR movement along so that patients can “take control of their own health” and have the necessary information to “make choices easy” should get the attention of providers.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“Keep the stories of terrible experiences exchanging healthcare data coming. I love to learn from first hand experiences. So, send them over and I’ll be sure to get your stories out and heard.
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Don Fluckinger, Health IT Pulse
“This week’s preview of a soon-to-be-proposed health care metadata rule — in government parlance, an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, or ANPRM — some believe to be a glimpse of the upcoming meaningful use stage 2 regulation. Certainly, the ONC’s call for encryption of any personally identifiable data to be encrypted in transit is a sign that this rule can plug-and-play with HIPAA covered entities.
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Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“To help healthcare providers and other stakeholders connect their electronic health records (EHRs) more quickly, members of HIMSS’ Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) have completed a white paper providing a type of roadmap for health data exchanges.
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Healthcare IT News
“Five health systems, each a leader in the use of electronic medical records for their patients, joined together today to announce a new initiative to securely exchange electronic health data, with the first data exchange planned in the next year.
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Janet Balog, STC
“In a March 8 briefing sponsored by Health Affairs journal, Dr. David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health IT announced its latest published studies on the impact that electronic health records (EHR) have on patient outcomes. The survey found evidence of “emerging measurable benefits” for small practices in addition to the larger health IT leaders.
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Webster PC, Kondro W. CMAJ, 183(5)
“Canada Health Infoway’s plans for highly-centralized electronic health records (EHR) systems within each province containing patient records that can be shared nationwide may not be feasible, a chorus of experts say.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“As the PCAST Workgroup ponders the meaning of a Universal Exchange Language and Data Element Access Services (DEAS), it is exploring what it means to exchange data at the “atomic”, “molecular”, and document level. See Wes Rishel’s excellent blog defining these terms.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Recently, I interviewed the CIO of a large Midwestern healthcare system about its plans to become an accountable care organization. The healthcare system was installing a well-known electronic health record that will allow its providers to access patient data across inpatient, outpatient and post-acute care settings.
The biggest obstacle the CIO saw to health information exchange was the lack of national standards that would enable the system’s EHR to communicate with the EHRs of private practices and other providers outside of the enterprise.”
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT, 30 January 2011
John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“In preparation for the PCAST Workgroup discussion, the Workgroup chairs asked Wes Rishel and I to find examples of the Universal Exchange Language proposed by the report. We asked Sean Nolan from Microsoft for his comments. His guest post is below:
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David C. Kibbe and Brian Klepper, Health Affairs Blog
“When the President was elected, this market was dominated by the vendor-controlled Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT). The entry rules were intentionally complex and expensive, safeguarded by an interlocking system of standards organizations and both open and clandestine industry alliances that defended against innovation and new entrants.
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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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Winnie Palaran, TTKN
“Cisco today announced that its Medical Data Exchange Solution (MDES) has been selected for deployment across 22 locations in South Carolina by Electronic Health Network, a leader in patient health education and wellness applications.
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