Kyle Murphy, EHR Intelligence
“Patients with diseases such as diabetes produce valuable data regularly, some of which can prevent serious medical events from escalating if providers are able to intervene more quickly and directly. For these patients, medical device integration and patient engagement are seemingly one and the same.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“A veteran observer of telemedicine says that it’s time for the various technologies grouped under that rubric to be integrated with mainstream medicine so that patients can receive the appropriate care from the right provider at the right site of care, while reducing waste and duplication of effort.
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Jennifer Bresnick, EHR Intelligence
“What’s in it for me?” isn’t an unreasonable question when it comes to healthcare information technology. Providers are being asked to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on new IT systems, and finding the business case for these massive investments is crucial to spurring adoption and improving healthcare at its core.
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Tom Philpott, Kitsap Sun
“After five years and an estimated $1 billion spent trying to build a single integrated electronic health record (iEHR) system with the Department of Veterans Affairs, defense health officials have been taken off the project, sources confirm.
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Amber Corrin, FCW
“The Integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR) program is not the Department of Veterans Affairs’ only lightning rod, but it is a major one. Officially in the works since 2011, the records-sharing program took root after 15 years of discussion and cooperation between the two agencies to share military members’ health data.
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Elizabeth Gardner, Health Data Management
“Medical devices produce data almost continuously as a byproduct of their main tasks, such as dispensing medication, keeping the patient supplied with air, or monitoring vital signs. Two HIMSS presenters from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center will describe how the hospital is capturing, validating, and using that bounty of data.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“When it comes to interoperability of healthcare information technology systems, much of the focus has been on data standards and health information exchanges to promote the external swapping of information between one provider armed with an electronic health-record system and another.
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Rosalía Sierra, Diario Médico
“Una red de 29 hospitales, 1.514 centros de atención primaria y cerca de ocho millones y medio de potenciales usuarios es un somero resumen en cifras de lo que supone el Servicio Andaluz de Salud (SAS), pero da idea suficiente de la dificultad que entraña la gestión de la información que maneja y la consecución de uno de los grandes objetivos de todo servicio sanitario: una historia clínica electrónica única y completa para cada paciente.
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Eason K, Waterson P. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2012
Purpose
This paper explores the implications that different technical strategies for sharing patient information have for healthcare workers and, as a consequence, for the extent to which these systems provide support for integrated care.
Methods
Four technical strategies were identified and the forms of coupling they made with healthcare agencies were classified. A study was conducted in England to examine the human and organizational implications of systems implemented by these four strategies. Results were used from evaluation reports of two systems delivered as part of the NPfIT (National Programme for Information Technology) and from user responses to systems delivered in two local health communities in England. In the latter study 40 clinical respondents reported the use of systems to support integrated care in six healthcare pathways.
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Jonah Comstock, mobihealthnews
“iHealth Labs, a subsidiary of China-based Andon Health that produces wireless health monitoring devices, announced partnerships with EHR-maker Practice Fusion and with popular memory-aid app Evernote.
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Jeff Rowe, Government Health IT
“Will it be prompting by policymakers or technological innovation that ultimately moves providers and patients into the digital future?
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John Andrews, Healthcare IT News
“In various shapes and forms, the link between biology, clinical science and technology is advancing at a steady pace.
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Broadcast Newsroom
“Orion Health, a leader in electronic health records (EHR) and healthcare integration solutions has implemented its Orion Health Clinical Portal to eHealth in the province of Saskatchewan. The portal is enabling healthcare providers to access patient laboratory results with greater speed and accuracy anywhere in the province.
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EHRScope
“In order to better understand the natural language processing system, it is important to examine the basics. Natural language processing or NLP incorporates processing algorithms that provide certain rules and guidelines of speech and language in order for examination and analysis.
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Loraine Lawson, IT Business Edge
“Integration is among the greatest — if not the greatest — obstacles to electronic medical records and the cost and health benefits that would bring. It’s assumed this is a problem of too many legacy systems and specialized technology challenges unique to health care.
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Pagliari C et al, JRSM short reports, 3(5)
OBJECTIVES
To explore the integration of online patient Record Access within UK Primary Care, its perceived impacts on workload and service quality, and barriers to implementation.
DESIGN
Mixed format survey of clinicians, administrators and patients. Telephone interviews with non-users.
SETTING
Primary care centres within NHS England that had offered online record access for the preceding year.
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George T. Schwend and Brian Levy, Healthcare IT News
“The current fragmented system of healthcare delivery in the United States is often blamed on lack of standardization, which stems from the complexity involved in normalizing data. Looking ahead, it’s clear that achieving true meaningful use requires us to move beyond simply integrating systems to the more complex task of integrating information.
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Susan Niemeier, HITExchange
“Every industry seems to gravitate to the next shiny gadget, but often times little thought goes into the product’s usability. The health care industry is no exception as the latest mobile health application for the smartphone or tablet continues to grab headlines. While there are a number of technologies out there that operate on smartphones and tablets, how do they truly impact the daily workflow for nurses and clinicians?
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EHRScope
“The days of experiencing long wait times in healthcare facilities are over. Quality patient care is not just a trend or what it takes healthcare organizations to compete and succeed but is now a universal industry standard. Cloud computing has come to rescue the healthcare industry from the qualms that have plagued many professionals, vendors, and even patients over time.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“In a discussion at the recent American Telemedicine Association (ATA) conference, panelists bewailed the absence of electronic health record vendors from the meeting, according to a post in NHIN Watch.
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