Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“It took a couple of days for The Australian and the usual suspects to catch up with the news of the problems with the specifications for the PCEHR which I reported on Sunday and again yesterday, which may explain the enthusiasm with which they have greeted confirmation of the story in a statement from NEHTA.
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Ranit Mishori, The Washington Post
“It’s a return trip nobody wants to take: You are discharged from the hospital only to find yourself re-admitted a few days later.
More and more people are finding themselves in this revolving door — at a cost to both hospitals and patients.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“I imagine there’s an awful lot of Australian GPs who might be wishing they were practising in Scotland, what with last week’s news that NHS Scotland has agreed to the national deployment of a multi-directional electronic document transfer system called EDT Hub, which will allow all Scottish hospitals to send patient letters and results electronically to GPs.
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Dick Vinegar, Guardian Professional
“Last week, I did something I have never done before: I attended the annual general meeting of one of the nearby hospital trusts. There were no fireworks. The trust is working towards foundation status and hitting its financial targets. It has about the best maternity unit in the south of England. Judging from my own visits over the last few years, it is definitely more patient-friendly than it was.
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Daloni Carlisle, e-Health Insider Acute
“Patients are nearly three times more likely to be given the wrong medicines as a result of an error in their hospital discharge letter if the information is compiled electronically, according to new research from the University of East Anglia and Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Poor or lack of communication among providers for patients who require post-hospital care has often led to medical errors, according to a study published in 2009 and led by Martin Chieng Were, MD, a Regenstrief Institute investigator and assistant professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
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Cathy Saunders, MJA Insights
“An electronic discharge summary that includes tests pending when patients leave hospital is a good idea, but first the problem of test results disappearing into hospital “black holes” has to be solved, says Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, a national e-health leader and practising GP.
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Eric Filed, Healthbase Australia Blog
“The inertia embodied in the Australian health system is immense. Attempts to change it have mainly foundered over the years. Portents of failure are writ large, almost everywhere one turns.
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Aanesen M et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010
Background and purpose
There are several cost-benefit evaluations of introducing new technology for administrative purposes in the health care sector. Whereas some of these recognise the importance of adapting the working procedures to the new technology, very few look into the consequences of delays in adaptation to the new technology. In this paper, we focus on the consequences of keeping old working procedures, although new technology is implemented.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust has signed a deal with SRC to implement the company’s electronic discharge summary.
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Chiang J et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(3)
The objective of this study was to develop and validate an automated acquisition system to assess quality of care (QC) measures for cardiovascular diseases. This system combining searching and retrieval algorithms was designed to extract QC measures from electronic discharge notes and to estimate the attainment rates to the current standards of care. It was developed on the patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and tested on the patients with unstable angina/non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, both diseases sharing almost the same QC measures.
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Chen C et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
Discharge summary note is one of the essential clinical data in medical records, and it concisely capsules a patient’s status during hospitalization. In the article, we adopt web-based architecture in developing a new discharge summary system for the Healthcare Information System of National Taiwan University Hospital, to improve the traditional client/sever architecture.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Herefordshire is delivering discharge summaries and radiology report messages to its 24 GP practices using software from document management specialists PCTI.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“A GP practice in Hampshire has recorded opt-out requests for the Summary Care Record from 20% of its patients.
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Shawn Bell, Slave River Journal
“Health care patients in Fort Smith will have shorter wait times for lab results now the GNWT has rolled out electronic access to health records across the territory.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“NHS Connecting for Health has invited suppliers to help develop and test standards for electronic discharge summaries in an extension to its interoperability toolkit programme.
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Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider
“SRC and Bluewire Technologies have announced a partnership to provide healthcare organisations with web-based clinical information solutions.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“Stalis has launched a clinical e-discharge solution to allow NHS trusts that do not have discharge summary functionality built into their patient administration system to produce immediate summaries for patients.
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