Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“While the federal government’s EHR incentive program requires physicians to provide visit notes to patients who request them, little is known about how doctors and patients view this kind of information sharing or what effect it has on patient care.
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Remen VM, Grimsmo A. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 80(11)
Background
Information deficits contribute to medical errors. Hence several efforts to develop electronic communication systems to facilitate a flow of information between health care providers have been attempted, including initiatives to develop regional or national electronic patient summaries.
Objectives
To study information access and information needs in inpatient emergency departments, and how clinicians in these departments handle deficits in available information.
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“I see my doctor about once every 2-4 months (lately while we have been working through some issues). In between each visit my doctor sees a couple thousand other patients. I don’t expect him to remember my story in between each visit. But I do expect him to keep good track of what’s going on with me, and to refresh his memory before each of my visits.
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PRSalud
“‘Nos encontramos ante un nuevo tipo de paciente que requiere más información sobre lo que está pasando y sobre su proceso’, asegura Elena Escala (@meriti), redactora jefe de Diario Médico.
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Mark van Dorresteijn, Zorgvisie
“Het Radboud REshape & Innovation Center, onderdeel van het UMC St Radboud, heeft afgelopen vrijdag de videowebsite Myhealthstory.me gelanceerd. Op deze site kunnen patiënten en zorgverleners video’s plaatsen over hun ervaringen met ziekte, aandoeningen, behandeling en acceptatie.
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Amanda Buie, Healthcare IT Solutions
“If the $19 billion in stimulus money allocated for the adoption of EHRs wasn’t an indicator that EHRs are a critical piece to the industry, then the U.S. Surgeon General’s announcement that they will be pushing the EHR movement along so that patients can “take control of their own health” and have the necessary information to “make choices easy” should get the attention of providers.
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to offer its physicians commercial cloud-based software-as-a-service collaborative tools to improve communications while also reducing data breaches.
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Gary Culliton, Irish Medical Times
“Recommendations for ‘unique health identifiers’ for healthcare practitioners and organisations have been issued by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA).
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“The exchange of clinical data is one of the three pillars of the EHR incentives program, and the legislation was intended to serve as a stimulus (pun intended!) for the creation of health information exchanges (HIEs) by including significant funding earmarked for their establishment. The stage 1 meaningful use requirements provide further support by requiring physicians to take a first step towards information sharing. EHR adoption was expected to be the impetus for the development and flourishing of HIEs.
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MD News
“As physicians continue to transition their paper-based records to electronic health records (EHRs), emphasis has been put on meeting meaningful use requirements. While this is important, many have overlooked the role of EHRs in the success of accountable care organizations (ACOs).
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Ted Eytan, MD
“There is no shortage of enthusiasm for the use of social media in health care. Unfortunately, there are few models for actually integrating social media into actual health care delivery itself. Until now.
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Eliot Muir, ZDNet
“Despite widespread adoption of cloud-based solutions by most industries, the healthcare industry has been slow to embrace cloud computing.
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ID Experts
“Mobile devices have become as common as the stethoscope in patient’s rooms. Physicians routinely review patients’ electronic health records (EHR), read test results, access diagnostic tools and take patient notes, all with a few touches on their iPad or tablet, smartphone or using a flash drive. These mobile devices are ideal for information sharing and time savings, but they pose huge security risks to patient information.
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Healthcare IT News
“A study released this week shows that 68 percent of Facebook users have never shared – and never plan to share – personal health information on the social networking site.
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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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Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“A majority of cancer patients said they were willing to share their electronic health information–keeping privacy in mind–if it meant improving the quality of their overall care, according to findings from a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center study released this week at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago.
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Health Data Management Magazine
“A poll in late March of 4,364 patients finds 29 percent of respondents have withheld certain health information from their physician, 47 percent have not shared certain health information with an employer and 14 percent have withheld information from a health insurer.
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Technology for Doctors Online
“Work is under way to ensure that healthcare providers can share electronic health information for Greater Toronto Area (GTA) residents, who represent 47 percent of the province’s population. The ConnectingGTA project will allow 700 service providers to securely share patient health information across the five GTA Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs).
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Jack Loechner, Mediapost
“A new study, from Lucid Marketing with Moms.com, “How U.S. Moms Share & Spread Health Information,” finds that 84% often share things via Email and 69% often share via Facebook, their top choices. Email and Facebook are also the places where they most often hear about the new things. Email (83%) and Facebook (76%). Only 65% choose Television.
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Thomas Beale, Woland's Cat
“One of the age-old debates in health informatics: can there be ‘one information model’ for shared clinical information? Some dream of a model to rule them all, uniting standards efforts, while others dismiss the idea as impossible or unrealistic.
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