Ab van Eldijk, Platform Bescherming Burgerrechten
“De verplichting die zorgverzekeraars opleggen aan zorgverleners om mee te werken aan een privaat EPD leidt tot schending van het beroepsgeheim en is daardoor juridisch onhoudbaar.
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Brandon Betancourt, KevinMD
“Health insurance is very complicated. At our practice, we deal with health insurance all the time and even for us, it gets to be very complicated sometimes. So it is natural that patients have a hard time understanding it as well.
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Jeff Byers, CMIO
“The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates voted today to work vigorously to stop implementation of ICD-10, a coding set that has about 69,000 codes and will replace the 14,000 ICD-9 diagnosis codes currently in use.
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e-Health-com News
“Was lange gärt, wird endlich gut? Zumindest werden den Worten diesmal zeitnah Taten folgen, wenn es wieder heißt „die elektronische Gesundheitskarte kommt“. Denn dieses Mal kommt sie wirklich.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“IBM’s Watson supercomputer has a new job in health IT, a role likely to be considerably trickier than thrashing two previous Jeopardy! champions during a human vs computer showdown in February.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“This time last year—amidst all the hoopla surrounding the finalization of the Stage 1 meaningful use requirements—it appeared that the commercial insurance companies were ready to jump on the meaningful use bandwagon and follow the government’s lead.
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Irene C. Card and Betsy Chandler, newjerseynewsroom.com
“There is a massive cost savings in electronic medical records. This is known as EHR – electronic health records. The vast majority of doctors have not yet adopted the standardized use of electronic health records.
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Security Document World
“Germany is set to begin distributing its new eHealth cards country-wide from 1 October 2011.
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Stewart Segal, KevinMD
“Privacy, is it important to you? Do you believe that your medical and personal information should be kept in strict privacy? Do you expect your doctor to keep your information private? What is the cost of privacy?
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DeVoe JE et al, Annals of Family Medicine, 9(4)
PURPOSE
Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases in community health centers (CHCs) present new opportunities for quality improvement, comparative effectiveness, and health policy research. We aimed (1) to create individual-level linkages between EHR data from a network of CHCs and Medicaid claims from 2005 through 2007; (2) to examine congruence between these data sources; and (3) to identify sociodemographic characteristics associated with documentation of services in one data set vs the other.
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Houston Neal, Software Advice
“There’s a lot of talk about the risks of storing health information in electronic medical records (EMRs). But, EMRs aren’t the problem. Those consent forms you sign at the doctor’s office… yeah, you should pay attention to the fine print. You may be giving permission to insurance companies, drug makers, and data aggregators to access your health information, regardless of how or where it’s stored.
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Nate Favini, A Stranger in this World
“This is too bad. We need to do a better job of securing medical records. As I’ve argued before, though, we can never completely guarantee that a breach won’t occur. The poor distribution of risk in our health insurance system makes a serious event like this worse. Individuals and employers are stuck with the consequences.
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Ancker JS et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2011
BACKGROUND:
Electronic patient portals give patients access to information from their electronic health record and the ability to message their providers. These tools are becoming more widely used and are expected to promote patient engagement with health care.
OBJECTIVE:
To quantify portal usage and explore potential differences in adoption and use according to patients’ socioeconomic and clinical characteristics in a network of federally qualified health centers serving New York City and neighboring counties.
DESIGN:
Retrospective analysis of data from portal and electronic health records.
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Mutuelle-land
“Il existe d’autres applications mobile qui traitent de la santé au sens large. C’est le cas par exemple de la compagnie d’assurance Malakoff Médéric qui vient récemment de lancer une nouvelle application santé.
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Dietmar Krause, Weblog Medizin IT und Telemedizin
“Im Zusammenhang mit der Ausgabe der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte für zunächst 10% der Versicherten ab Ende des Jahres wurden auf der diesjährigen Telehealth (Cbit 2011) die ersten eKioske vorgestellt. Diese Geräte ermöglichen den freien Zugang der Versicherten auf die Daten der eGK, werden in Zukunft teils aber auch zur Erfassung der Fotos in den Geschäftsstellen einiger Krankenkassen eingesetzt.
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Menachemi N et al, Health Care Management Review, 32(2)
Background:
Numerous studies have examined the relationship between physician practice characteristics and electronic health record (EHR) adoption. Little is known about how payer mix influences physicians’ decisions to implement EHR systems.
Purpose:
This study examines how different proportions of Medicare, Medicaid, and privately insured patients in physicians’ practices influence EHR adoption.
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The Reporter
“As indicated, last week, there is a big push on governmentally and health insurance industry wide, to reduce the cost of delivering health-care while expanding the level of service.
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Grandchamp C et al, Health Economics, 2010
This paper aims to estimate empirically the efficiency of a Swiss telemedicine service introduced in 2003. We used claims’ data gathered by a major Swiss health insurer, over a period of 6 years and involving 160 000 insured adults.
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Chris Gibbons, Healthcare Disparities Solutions Blog
“On October 11, 2010 Baltimore Sun reporter Meredith Cohn reported that some US healthcare providers are experimenting with trying to reach patients through social media and reaping big rewards. Providers are not just using twitter and facebook but trying new social media tools like Groupon, Foresquare, Scoutmob and LivingSocial that all blend social media with market forces to bring customers value and create new revenue for entrepreneurs, busnises owners and now healthcare providers.
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eHealthNews.eu
“The Government of Romania designated the National Company “National Printing House” as a central purchasing unit for the National Health Insurance House, with a view to achieving the national system of national health insurance cards.
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