Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“With cloud-based electronic health record systems becoming more popular, providers should carefully read their vendor contracts regarding their rights and use of their patients’ data, according to American Medical News.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“A contract stating that a practice owns the patient data entered and stored on a Web-based electronic medical record may not guarantee that the practice can control how the data are used or accessed.
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Burke RV et al, Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 47(1)
PURPOSE
During a disaster, hospitals may be overwhelmed and have an insufficient number of pediatric specialists available to care for injured children. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of remotely providing pediatric expertise via a robot to treat pediatric victims.
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Larry McClain, Government Health IT
“Some of the most devastating tornadoes and floods in U.S. history have occurred in just the last two years. IT professionals who survived the storms say their technology held up well. They felt lucky to have paperless systems in place.
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Larry McClain, Healthcare IT News
“Some of the most devastating tornadoes and floods in U.S. history have occurred in just the last two years. IT professionals who survived the storms say their technology held up well. They felt lucky to have paperless systems in place.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Emergency responders at disaster sites have a difficult problem — organizing patient data quickly, in a rapidly evolving, stressful environment. Adding an electronic health record (EHR) system to that scenario adds a layer of complexity.
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HIS
“We live in a volatile and constantly changing world. Disasters, of the natural variety as well as man-made, seem to occur with an ever increasing frequency. Hurricanes, floods, fires and earthquakes have all held a prominent position within the landscape of the world’s events recently.
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Brien M. Posey, SearchHealthIT
“Health care organizations are generally required to ensure that their systems and the patient data that they contain remain highly available, and that measures are in place to prevent data loss. There are a number of different technologies that can be used, many of which revolve around redundancy and various forms of replication. This tip examines five common data replication strategies.
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Kis-Ehr, HealthNewsDigest
“Dr. Martin H. Orens, a board certified emergency room physician, sees the need for the public to understand that having an online medical file is a proactive step in disaster preparedness.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“Last week’s East Coast earthquake proved the power of social media to report disasters, as millions took to Twitter and Facebook to report that they felt the earth move under their feet. Hurricane Irene also highlighted the importance of social media and disaster preparedness.
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Christina Beach Thielst, HealthITExchange
“Health care organizations, especially hospitals, have an obligation to maintain essential services and to have plans in place related to preparedness, response and recovery during times of emergency and disaster. As we become more and more dependent upon information technologies, there is an increasing need to address the continuity of operations and disaster planning activities in the IT department.
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Joseph Kim, SearchHealthIT
“The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) defines telemedicine technology as “the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients’ health status.”
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Lenert LA et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Background
There is growing interest in the use of technology to enhance the tracking and quality of clinical information available for patients in disaster settings. This paper describes the design and evaluation of the Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters (WIISARD).
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Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“Despite the progress many organizations are making toward implementing electronic health records systems, there’s still an awful lot of paper in the healthcare world. So when disaster strikes–such as the Midwest floods this April or the tornado that hit Joplin, MO, in May–virtually every organization is at risk of losing some kind of data.
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Farzad Mostashari, Health IT Buzz Blog
“On May 22, a devastating tornado struck Joplin, Mo., killing 134 and devastating a community of some 50,000 people. As one of a series of storms, it made 2011 the deadliest year for tornadoes in the United States in more than half a century.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“On June 8, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced the Investing in Innovations (i2) Initiative, a new program designed to spur innovations in health IT. The program will utilize prizes and competitions to accelerate the development of solutions and communities around key challenges in health IT.
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Jenny Laurello, HealthITExchange
“It seems like many health care providers have been so busy architecting their state HIEs, regional health organizations and enterprise community platforms that they haven’t thought through the architectural demands of resiliency. So they don’t have a good answer for the question, “What happens if I lose all or part of my network in a disaster?”
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Diane M. Burge, MDNews
“Given the recent occurrence of earthquakes and other horrific world events, it may be time to pause and consider what would happen if a disaster occurred that caused the closure of your office.
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Jessica B. Mulholland, Governing
“When someone is injured in Key West, Fla., emergency personnel can bring trauma specialists 130 miles away in Miami straight to the scene — virtually.
As part of a pilot, emergency room personnel at the Lower Keys Medical Center in Key West and specialists at Miami’s Ryder Trauma Center each have a mobile cart complete with a laptop, a high-definition video camera and wireless Internet capabilities.
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Mike Miliard, Destination ATA 2011
“Unfortunately, recent years have seen a succession of worldwide natural disasters of “unprecedented nature,” says Asif Zafar, MD, professor of surgery at Rawalpindi Medical College in Rawalpindi Pakistan.
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