The Sacramento Bee
“U-M researchers are calling for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to encourage a more seamless exchange of information between electronic health records and immunization registries.
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Don Rosenthal, Thitse
“There are currently over 500,000 apps for the iPhone. Apple has written only a handful of those. How many would there be if Apple had to write a custom interface for every developer who wrote an app?
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Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“Led by researchers at University of Oxford (UK) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) at Harvard University, (USA), more than 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organizations around the globe have agreed on a common standard that will make possible the consistent description of enormous and radically different databases compiled in fields ranging from genetics to stem cell science, to environmental studies.
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Angela Hart, The Health Care Blog
“The San Francisco Department of Public Health says it is ahead of the curve in rolling out databases that keep tabs on tens of thousands of patients across a citywide network of clinics and hospitals. The rollout is needed not just to make a local form of “universal health care” work, but also to meet a 2014 deadline under national health reform.
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Maureen McKinney, ModernHealthcare
“Health insurance carriers that provide coverage for federal employees must soon begin offering their members additional downloading and data-sharing capabilities.
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Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider Acute
“Two think-tanks that are well-known for influencing government policy have called for a major investment in IT to promote integrated care.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“Privacy groups say a government plan to share anonymised NHS data with commercial companies will herald the “death of patient confidentiality”.
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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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La bitácora de Fran Sánchez Laguna
“A pesar de que el concepto no es nada nuevo, pienso que todavía estamos lejos de verlo en todo su esplendor (al menos como yo lo entiendo). Nuestros sistemas de información están muy lejos de la madurez necesaria para tener unos registros personales de salud adecuados.
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Rosa Lin, Medill Reports
“Frank has been in a car accident away from home. He’s flown to a trauma center from another facility, and surgeons are working against the clock to keep him alive. They want to perform a crucial operation, but they need medical images from his Chicago doctors.
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Vest JR, Miller TR. Applied Clinical Informatics, 2(4)
Objective:
Health information exchange (HIE) is the interorganizational sharing of patient information and is one of many health information technology initiatives expected to transform the U.S. healthcare system. Two outcomes expected to be improved by HIE are patient-provider communication and patient satisfaction . This analysis examined the relationship between the level of HIE engagement and these two factors in a sample of U.S. hospitals.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Work continues on the building of an information network enabling patients to access, store and share their radiological images and reports, along with other information, via a personal health record.
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PRNewswire
“Patients at three major medical institutions can control the sharing of their medical images and reports with their doctors and medical providers. The RSNA Image Share network was demonstrated today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal, Joplin Independent
“Throughout all of the debates and disagreements associated with healthcare reform, one idea is universal throughout the political field – each side wants to improve the quality of medicine and decrease the associated costs. Missouri is no different. One way to improve the quality of medicine is through new technology, such as electronic health records (EHR). Already in Missouri, the use of EHR is becoming more widespread through the Missouri Office of Health Information Technology (MO-HITECH) initiative.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Sharing electronic health information across every major emergency department in the Memphis, Tenn., area resulted in reduced hospital admissions, reduced radiology tests and an annual cost savings of nearly $2 million, according to a recent study conducted by Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Thirty six percent of consumers say they would be interested in sending health data to their doctor via a wireless device and 32% said they would be willing to consult their doctor via video. That’s the conclusion of a recently published survey from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
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Brian Mossop, The Decision Tree
“People use Facebook, Twitter, or other social media sites as channels for self-expression. But whether updating or uploading, people are telling their social stories with only two tools: text and images.
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Medical News Today
“The demand for transparency through publicly available healthcare data is on the rise. This is the case for administrative and clinical data for research, and for clinical trials data used to support new drug approvals. Broad data access has a measurable impact on research and policy making.
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El Emam K et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making,11(1)
BACKGROUND:
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) collects hospital discharge abstract data from Canadian provinces and territories to create a national discharge abstract database (DAD). There are many demands for the disclosure of this data for research and analysis to inform policy making. To expedite the disclosure of this data, the construction of a DAD public use microdata file (PUMF) was considered. A PUMF may serve multiple purposes, including: confirming published results, providing broader feedback to CIHI to improve data quality, training students and fellows, providing an easily accessible data set for researchers to prepare for analyses on the full DAD data set, and serve as a large health data set for computer scientists and statisticians to evaluate analysis and data mining techniques. The objective of this study was to measure the probability of re-identification for records in a PUMF, and to de-identify a national DAD PUMF consisting of 10% of records.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Today I’m at George Washington University’s “The Role and Future of HIT in an Era of Health Care Transformation Symposium” serving as moderator of a panel discussing the barriers and enablers to health information exchange, including the impact of PCAST Work.
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