William Hersh, Informatics Professor
“In teaching current and future informatics professionals, I often speak about the Internet-savvy baby boomers who will interact more with the healthcare system as they get older, which will likely usher in the era of patient-centered informatics more than anything heretofore.
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Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“Information silos in healthcare settings are a primary reason why available data often isn’t used to its fullest potential, concludes Russ Richmond, M.D., CEO of McKinsey Healthcare’s Objective Health consulting firm, in a new post that appears on The Health Care Blog.
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Janet Dillione, Huffington Post
“The adoption of healthcare IT as a means to improve clinical workflow processes and ultimately to improve the delivery of patient care has accelerated.
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“Have you ever read something that sent chills up your spine? An old ad from Apple did it for me.
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes… While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius… Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
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Goedert J. Health Data Management Magazine, 19(12)
Rockford (Ill.) Orthopedic adopted electronic health records in a phased go-live during late 2006 and early 2007. The practice’s 21 physicians now do very little dictation; they document most clinical notes via EHR templates.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Primary care physicians like the idea that personal health records will make healthcare data more portable and open up communications channels with patients, but they still have plenty of questions about data security, workloads, and how PHRs might change their relationships with patients, a new study says.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“Clunky data-management tools and the juice not being worth the squeeze in obtaining information were cited as the two main barriers to the use of electronic prescribing systems in a Center for Studying Health System Change study of 24 physician medical-group practices.
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Grossman JM, AHRQ, Research Brief No. 20
Hoping to reduce medication errors and contain health care costs, policy makers are promoting electronic prescribing through Medicare and Medicaid financial incentives. Many e-prescribing systems provide electronic access to important information—for example, medications prescribed by physicians in other practices, patient formularies and generic alternatives—when physicians are deciding what medications to prescribe. However, physician practices with e-prescribing face challenges using these features effectively, according to a new qualitative study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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Melody Smith Jones, Healthcare IT Solutions
“The complexity of medicine and the lack of common standards, practices and clinical vocabularies across the healthcare system makes getting clean clinical data a dirty task. There are many applications across a healthcare system that rely on master data, and a single error can have a far-reaching impact. In many businesses, errors in master data can be problematic and irritating. In healthcare, getting master data wrong can ultimately impact quality of care.
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Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“The Alembic Foundation today announced its incorporation as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) to design and build Open Source technologies that empower citizens so they can understand, participate in and help guide the services-driven, networked information economy of the 21st century.
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Jim Sabogal's Blog
“We are not at a point where we can effectively: total, safely protect, easily transport and access our health data. I read a great article by Margalit Gur-Arie entitled, “Trust your life records to an unnamed chain of software vendors” she uses an analogy of our current banking system to emphasize how far away we are from gaining the trust around our health records data. Great article and highly recommended. This got me thinking about how we manage our data today?
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Healthcare IT News
“Northrop Grumman has launched the National Level Repository (NLR) in support of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ initiation of registration for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.
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Black AD et al, PLoS Med, 8(1)
Background
There is considerable international interest in exploiting the potential of digital solutions to enhance the quality and safety of health care. Implementations of transformative eHealth technologies are underway globally, often at very considerable cost. In order to assess the impact of eHealth solutions on the quality and safety of health care, and to inform policy decisions on eHealth deployments, we undertook a systematic review of systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness and consequences of various eHealth technologies on the quality and safety of care.
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Tony Cotterill, Health Management Technology
“Healthcare organizations are in the throes of a data explosion. Government incentives – such as the HITECH provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Canada Health Infoway and the European Institute for Health Records – are encouraging hospitals everywhere to adopt electronic health records (EHRs).
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eHealthServer
“Healthcare data storage expert Tony Cotterill has called secure data management the “missing link” to improving patient care in the 21st century. Cotterill’s comments follow in the wake of research carried out by GS1 UK and Hospital Dr which discovered that half of doctors expect Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) to improve patient care by providing verifiable, consistent and complete data to support verbal handovers between medical staff.
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Nathan Golia, Insurance Technology
“Stakeholders across the healthcare industry have long touted electronic medical records as a key component to a streamlined, more efficient healthcare system.
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James Andrassy, The Healthcare IT Guy
“Like many healthcare providers, we have been dealing with explosive data growth for some time. Other organizations have dealt with this trend by moving to electronic medical records (EMR), and Gastroenterology Associates of Cleveland recently decided that was our best bet for managing the data load, as well. It’s easy to see why; for any business, an interruption of data accessibility or data loss or corruption caused by a hardware or software malfunction is a problem.
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eHealthServer
“Research from a global survey by BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) company, has revealed that secure data management is the healthcare industry’s most pressing issue as hospitals transition from paper-based health records to electronic systems.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“No issue is more important to healthcare providers than data management, according to a new global survey of healthcare executives, conducted by BridgeHead Software, which develops and markets healthcare storage virtualization solutions.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“A prerequisite to any Meaningful Use discussion is the need to keep in mind that the current HIT effort, and appropriation of funds, originated from a legislative act whose primary goals were to reduce health care costs and create jobs in a faltering economy. The secondary goals of increasing quality of care and reducing disparities are assumed to be supportive of the primary goals.
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