Telemedicine Fertility Monitor As Successful As IVF
Ben Rooney, WSJ Health Blog
“Shamus Husheer’s opening line as a speaker is guaranteed to get him a laugh: “My name is Shamus Husheer and my job is to get the women of Britain pregnant.”
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Electronic Data Capture
Meaningful Delivery
Rob Drewniak, Healthcare IT News
“Much has been written about preparing for meaningful use, such as implementing a certified electronic health record. Then what? The objective of meaningful use is to improve patient outcomes, which requires much more than a certified IT system.
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MU Lesson: Watch Data Capture
Health Data Management Magazine
“Heart & Vascular Center of Arizona was one of 150 provider organizations that successfully attested to meaningful use of electronic health records on April 18, the first day that attestation was available under the Medicare incentive program.
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Euphoria over EHR/EDC Interoperability May be Misplaced
Deborah Borfitz, eCliniqua
“Despite noble efforts by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and others to write a rulebook for the exchange of patient-level clinical information between electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic data capture (EDC), interoperability between the two systems is largely a pipe dream.
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Automating Data Capture from the Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS) for Secondary Data Uses
Milgram LK et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 10(1)
Provincial health data repositories enable clinical data utilization for secondary data uses. This study profiles the first use of Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS) data and demonstrates the value of automating tumour marker data collection to enhance cancer stage information in the Ontario Cancer Registry.
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The Downfall Of EMRs: Capturing Too Much Data
DrEdwinLeap, Better Health
“The problem, as I see it, is the attempt to capture far too much data all around. You see, medicine is at a strange juncture, and I really don’t know what to do about it. How can I describe the problem… simple physics, perhaps?
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More clinical trials use computer records
UPI
“Canadian health officials found 41 percent of clinical trials have moved away from managing trial data using only paper records.
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IntraLinks, Adobe Team for Paperless Clinical Trials
Roy Mark, eWeek.com
“Combining Adobe’s LiveCycle Enterprise Suite with IntraLinks’ solutions for secure collaboration, companies aim to turn the document-intensive clinical trial process into a paperless experience.
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Physicians, patients benefit with online patient registration
Dental Office Magazines
“The use of electronic medical records can benefit patients and health-care providers, but many smaller practices remain hesitant to implement complex, costly EMR systems.
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Transparency and the Electronic Health Record
The Health Care Trackers Blog
“I am seeing more and more transparency among health care organizations. Just this week Oklahoma became more involved in the process. They launched a new web site called www.okhospitalquality.org.
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Round Peg, Square Hole
“Information technology consultant Tim Gee has a nontechnical description of the current state of connecting medical devices to clinical information systems: “It’s a mess.” Not that direct data capture from medical devices is impossible; some hospitals have been exporting data from devices into clinical information systems for years. But as Gee and other experts point out, the effort can be so confounding that many hospitals don’t even try.”
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Health Leaders Media, September 2007
Nextrials’ Founder Discusses the (Hoped-for) Collision Between EDC and EHRs
“Linking clinical data from electronic health records (EHRs) to clinical trial and other research data captured by electronic data capture (EDC) systems is a hot topic in both the pharmaceutical and health care industries. Considerable progress toward achieving paperless research data collection has occurred, but interoperability hurdles, uneven EHR adoption, and a host of other issues have slowed efforts to link EHRs and EDC systems.”
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Cindy Atoji, Digital HealthCare & Productivity, 11 September 2007
