Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“I have this notion that my chart notes contain information that will be useful in guiding patients’ care in the future. Obviously, this can only happen if the charts, and my notes, are still around when the future arrives. A couple of recent experiences lead me to believe that today’s computer technology puts this notion at risk.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Health IT is evolving quickly, and the concept of a cradle-to-grave patient health record, aggregated from all the different places where pieces of one’s health story are found, is no longer such science-fiction.
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Cerner Blog
“Delivery of a newborn is one of the top diagnoses for all hospital stays in the United States, with more than 4 million births a year. Several roles manage the maternity condition across ambulatory and acute care venues over an extended period of time.
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Colin Barry, Government Health IT
“The research on coordinated care is clear: Patients experience better outcomes when medical teams operate within a connected healthcare ecosystem. Access to the patient’s complete medical history helps physicians make better decisions, reduces medical errors and eliminates duplicate diagnostic testing.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The pilot for the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), which enables sharing of Veterans’ health records will be expanded, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday.
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Knowledge management (KM) has made a significant impact on the global healthcare sector. However, it is important to address the link between knowledge, information and engineering. This paper discusses how concepts from the established KM field can be applied to the area of e-Health.
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George Crump, InformationWeek
“Cloud storage has a role to play in many organizations. It can be used as part of the backup and archive processes and in some cases even used for primary storage. There are specific enterprise vertical markets however where cloud storage can be especially beneficial.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) build their electronic medical record systems to serve veterans and active duty service members, both organizations lack a coordinated health information technology management plan to jointly address common healthcare business needs, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official said.
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Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service
“Two years after they joined President Barack Obama in announcing plans to create a Joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki have agreed to create a joint common platform for their departments’ electronic medical records.
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RayOnStorage Blog
“I was reading a book the other day and it suggested that sometime in the near future we will all have a personal medical record archive. Such an archive would be a formal record of every visit to a healthcare provider, with every x-ray, MRI, CatScan, doctor’s note, blood analysis, etc. that’s ever done to a person.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“MedVirginia, a Richmond, Va.-based health information exchange, is now linked to the virtual lifetime electronic record, a collaboration between the healthcare systems of the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments and civilian healthcare systems, the organization has announced.
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Jean DerGurahian, HealthITExchange
“The Department of Veterans Affairs is pressing forward with its virtual lifetime electronic record initiative by opening a fourth pilot site for the program.
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Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments have taken a major step forward in developing a joint lifetime record system by the VA’s recent adoption of DOD’s personal identifier system for each service member, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker said today.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are working on consent management tools that would let patients control access to their personal health information – including medication lists, lab test results and diagnoses – during health information exchanges between the two agencies.
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Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“The VA’s Open Government Plan has some very interesting information regarding health IT. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has designated Peter Levin, VA’s Chief Technology Officer, as the senior official in charge of the open government initiatives.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Government Accountability Office criticized the group directing the project to tie together the electronic health record systems operated by the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments.
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Jennifer Cragg, American Forces Press Service
“For servicemembers who still remember hand-carrying their medical records back and forth to appointments, the new virtual lifetime electronic record will help prevent misplaced paperwork and help providers maintain and offer quality health care, the acting director of the program said Aug. 13.
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Amber Corrin, Federal Computer Week
“A Defense Department pilot program designed for easy access to medical files could propel government and military recordkeeping into the 21st century.
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Lisa Eramo, HealthLeaders Media
“When Deb Howard, 42, of Kingwood, TX was discharged from the military in 1992, she was given eight years’ worth of her paper medical records in two tattered and worn out folders.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs will create a joint electronic medical record for streamlined movement of health records between the agencies, President Obama announced on Thursday.
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