Forbes
“Mobile devices are proving instrumental for a growing number of healthcare professionals. Smartphones and tablets are progressing beyond ways for doctors and nurses to check in during a busy day, and becoming part of the very fabric of healthcare delivery.
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BPC
“Health information technology (IT) plays a critical role in supporting new models of care and payment that are designed to achieve health care’s triple aim: improve health, improve the experience of care for patients and families, and reduce the cost of care. Despite the introduction of IT to nearly every other aspect of modern life, the U.S. health care system remains largely paper-based. Greater use of health IT enjoys bipartisan support.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“The privacy risks involved in using social media in healthcare can be minimized through innovative staff education, says risk management expert Paul Anderson.
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Anne Zieger, EMR and EHR
“Right now, healthcare organizations have to go through some pretty tricky maneuvers to link patient data across varied systems and settings. It’s possible to connect patient info electronically through database hacks, but more often than not, matching patients to clinical data gets done by hand.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’ve generally been writing more about the EMR side of EMR and HIPAA lately. For the most part, it seems readers are more interested in EMR and EHR than they are in the details of HIPAA.
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Joseph C. Kvedar, Sam Bierstock, Wall Street Journal
“Email has been so commonplace for so long that some people consider it nearly obsolete. But in the health-care profession, its use for communications between doctors and their patients is still controversial.
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Michael F. Collins, Deborah C. Peel, Wall Street Journal
“As the U.S. invests billions of dollars to convert from paper-based medical records to electronic ones, has the time come to offer everyone a unique health-care identification number?
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Evan Duggan, Vancouver Sun
“The federal government’s tough on crime agenda and better-than-ever genetic mapping technologies means more legal protections are needed to protect the privacy of Canadians, according to a report commissioned by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.
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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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Nina Moini, NBC2
“Medical charts at local hospitals are going paperless. The new system will streamline patient information and will save money, but will the records be secure?
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Nicole Lewis, EBN
“Many hospitals experiencing electronic patient data growth can gain enormous benefits from cloud technology, which creates data storage efficiencies and can provide an alternative to costly storage infrastructure systems.
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Laura B. Smith, HIT Community
“Of the many features that cloud-based EHR systems tout (like removing paperwork and helping you achieve meaningful use), one of the most important is security. Most on-site EHRs do not prompt physicians to encrypt their data, for example, while it is common practice in the cloud.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Don’t assume the entire staff at your organization – or, for that matter, all your contractors – apply common sense when using Facebook. Odds are that at least some of them don’t.
This was recently illustrated by the news that a contract employee at a California hospital posted information about a patient on a Facebook page – just for laughs.
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Alan Brookstone, Canadian EMR
“With 2011 behind us, it is time to begin thinking about 2012. What can we expect in the next 12 months? Will EMR adoption accelerate?
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Baker DC, Bufka LF. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 42(6)
As technology advances, psychologists increasingly have the opportunity to engage with patients or other users of psychological services via less traditional methods. However, little guidance exists to prepare psychologists to navigate the legal, regulatory, reimbursement, and ethical issues that can arise when providing psychological services via technology.
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Rick Kam, Government Health IT
“Forget the hospital dramas on TV. Our top 10 list of this year’s trends in healthcare privacy and security has excitement to rival any show.
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Marty Sharpe, Stuff.co.nz
“The privacy commissioner is backing a $38 million plan in which patient information would be shared between every clinician in the lower North Island, but says patients should have the right to opt out.
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Kathleen Sebelius, NCI Cancer Bulletin
“Since I was here in 2009, few fields have undergone such rapid change as mHealth. Virtually every American today has a cell phone. Some of us have to carry two. And every year, our phones have more features and computing power. This year, for the first time ever, smart phones accounted for more than half of all phone sales in the US.
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Chelsea Conaboy, Boston Globe
“Despite the challenge of getting new systems off the ground, it’s clear that electronic health records are a powerful tool. They could save the American health care system billions of dollars by reducing unnecessary tests.
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Xinghui Guo, Asia Pacific Futuregov
“The Hong Kong government yesterday (12 December 2011) launched a two-month long public consultation to solicit views on the legal, privacy and security framework for electronic health record (eHR) sharing.
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