Ip IK et al, Journal of the American College of Radiology, 9(2)
Purpose
The aim of this study was to assess whether an integrated imaging computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with embedded decision support for imaging can be accepted clinically.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“There’s a way to soften the impact that ICD-10 implementation has on your budget. It involves working on ICD-10 and Meaningful Use compliance as the same project.
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Kim Bandura, The Morehead News
“Technology will be playing a bigger role in patient care than ever before.
Healthcare professionals and their related associates have been mandated by the federal government to abide by “meaningful use” of electronic medical records (EMR) by the end of 2014.
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Redstone K. CMAJ, 2012
As many a Canadian doctor has discovered, negotiating the circuitry of electronic health records can be a mind-numbing challenge.
Some, like Ottawa physician Dr. Heath Alsaffar, call it “a colossal headache” that often leaves doctors who take the electronic plunge mired in myriad issues of cost and connectivity (www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.109-3929 and www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.109-3930).
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“From the big technology vendors–Microsoft, Google, IBM, AT&T, et al.–comes the drumbeat of exhortations: “to the cloud, to the cloud!” Some industries have already decided that that’s the way to go. But healthcare providers aren’t so sure, according to a recent report by KLAS Research.
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H. Stephen Lieber, FierceHealthIT
“It is 2012–time to look forward to a year of deadlines, determination, and perhaps defiance, as we strive to reach that goal of nationwide interoperable electronic health records.
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Anthony Guerra, HealthSystemCIO
“As a CIO, having all hospitals within a health system on the same EMR is the ideal scenario. But as Todd Richardson knows, it isn’t always a reality, particularly when physicians are minority owners. In this interview, Richardson, who serves as CIO of the six-hospital Deaconess Health System, gives his honest take of how having physician owners can impact IT decision making, and why organizations need to accommodate the growing need among patients to access their data.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“As I said in my previous EMR and Health IT in 2012 post, I’m going to create some of my own lists for 2012. I decided to tackle the first one on the list: My 2012 EMR and Health IT Wish List. This was kind of fun to think about. I’m also sure that I’ll come up with other ideas once this is posted, so don’t be surprised if I add things to this list in a future post.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“Technology is increasingly a top management concern, and is no longer confined to clinical and technical decision making. Themes emerging on our 2012 list reflect ongoing impacts of health-care reform initiatives and new technology developments that emphasize patient-centered care,”
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“Now that it’s 2012, and you have reached HIPAA 5010 compliance, it’s time to work on your electronic health record (EHR) and Meaningful Use initiatives. Or do you need to start ICD-10 implementation next?
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Several branches of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have teamed up to produce an online guide for selecting and implementing electronic health records (EHRs).
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Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today
“While many challenges remain in pushing the U.S. healthcare system into the electronic age, the former head of health information technology (IT) under the Obama administration said he’s confident it will happen — eventually.
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Blumenthal D. N Engl J Med, 365(25)
In the spring of 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) faced a daunting project: to lead the creation of a nationwide, interoperable, private, and secure electronic health information system. The DHHS and its two key agencies that were responsible for this task — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) — were in many ways unprepared to undertake it.
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Donald Lewellen Jr., HTRNews
“Q. When I went to my doctor recently, I was asked to state my race and ethnic background. Why am I being asked for this information all of a sudden?
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Halamka JD. AHRQ, 2011
The Obama Administration is spending $27 billion dollars to accelerate the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) in pursuit of three policy goals: enhanced safety, improved quality, and increased efficiency. However, despite some evidence that electronic health records can achieve these goals, implementation can introduce new errors, new risks, and new challenges.
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“The recent announcement from HHS heralded a reprieve for many of those still concerned about meaningful use Stage 2. The deadline for meeting the requirements has been extended.
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Sheri Porter, AAFP News
“The establishment of regional extension centers, or RECs, in 2010 was widely seen as an opportunity for physicians, including family physicians, to more quickly and effectively adopt health information technology, or health IT, and use it in a meaningful way.
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Jonathan Bush, The Hill's Congress Blog
“As all parties to the health care system search for ways to rein in costs, the U.S. government is in the process of distributing the first of nearly $30 billion in checks to eligible medical providers. These payouts are part of the Meaningful Use program, which was created under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to encourage the adoption and sustained use of electronic health records (EHRs).
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Charles Fiegl, amednews
“Physicians meeting criteria in 2011 to earn federal electronic medical record incentives will have more time before the Dept. of Health and Human Services requires them to satisfy tougher standards for attaining additional bonuses.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Speculation throughout 2011 that federal policymakers would delay stage 2 of the Electronic Health Records Incentive Program ended in a pair of formal announcements by officials, who said providers would have an extra year to prepare for the next onslaught of meaningful use criteria.
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