Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Patients are overwhelmingly interested in exploring the notes doctors write about them after an office visit, but doctors worry about the impact of such transparency on their patients and on their own workflow, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) study suggests.
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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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Tanya Lewis, Health Canal
“Despite their distance, the son wants to help his father keep track of his blood sugar and manage his medications. What if the father could share his health information easily and securely online? With the click of a mouse, the son could see blood test results, refill prescriptions or ask to speak with his father’s doctor.
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Michelle Brandt, Scope
“If you could allow family members, caregivers and outside providers access to your electronic personal health records, including such information as lab results, prescriptions and upcoming appointments, would you?
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Kerry Grens, Reuters
“Patients want easy access to any notes their doctor has recorded about them, and they want the right to let others view their medical information, according to a pair of U.S. studies.
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Zulman DM et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(12)
Background:
Electronic personal health record (PHR) systems are proliferating but largely have not realized their potential for enhancing communication among patients and their network of care providers.
Objective:
To explore preferences about sharing electronic health information among users of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) PHR system, My HealtheVet.
Design:
Web-based survey of a convenience sample.
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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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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced Wednesday that it is revising a rule that aims to make it easier to share records related to the treatment for drug abuse, alcoholism or alcohol abuse, HIV and sickle cell anemia with the Department of Defense (DoD).
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Annie Getsinger, Herald-Review
“With electronic health records systems being implemented and improved at hospitals, clinics and medical offices throughout the nation, improving the flow of information among organizations has become increasingly important.
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Webster PC, Kondro W. CMAJ, 183(5)
“Canada Health Infoway’s plans for highly-centralized electronic health records (EHR) systems within each province containing patient records that can be shared nationwide may not be feasible, a chorus of experts say.
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Jon Thompson, Kenora Daily
“Doctor’s offices and hospitals are being networked with electronic health records to share interfacing software across Northwestern Ontario — in all but Kenora.
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Chris Swingle, Democrat and Chronicle
“The 10-county Rochester area is a leader in the state when it comes to sharing patients’ medical records electronically across different places where care or testing is provided — such as hospitals, labs, imaging facilities and doctors’ offices.
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Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press
“Think you entered the digital health age when your doctor switched from paper charts to computerized medical records? Think again: An e-chart stored in one doctor’s computer too often can’t be read by another’s across town.
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David Ellis and Stephen J. Cavanagh, H&HN
“The personal health record (PHR) is an individual’s health record accessible to, nominally controlled by, and to some extent maintained by that individual. Recently, these records have begun to include elements of clinical information from the databases and electronic medical records (EMRs) of hospitals, physician offices, health plans, pharmacies and other health care service providers.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Senate Appropriations Committee wants more details about how the Defense Department plans to modernize its electronic health record system, which DOD is upgrading in coordination with the Veterans Affairs Department.
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Concord Monitor
“New Hampshire health care providers are ahead of the curve when it comes to switching from paper medical records to electronic record keeping. Most medical offices and testing labs have made the switch. Health care providers swivel from patient to computer to check their medical history and enter new information.
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Trisha Torrey, KevinMD
“Regina Holliday’s husband, Fred, age 39, died of cancer in June 2009 leaving his wife, and his two young, beautiful children behind. During their journey through the healthcare system to try to get Fred the help he needed, too many hurdles were put in their way. Their story makes you want to scream.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“Yesterday, ONC held a fine gathering at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC. There were experts, ONC Tiger team members and cutting edge technology vendors displaying and discussing platforms and software for providing patients the opportunity to define granular consent to the sharing of their electronic medical records down to a data element level.
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Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“Patients already lie to their doctors. And almost half of respondents in a new survey said if there was any hint their health information — even stripped of identifying details like name or date of birth — would be shared with outside organizations, they might be even less forthcoming.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“On March 23, the HHS released an excellent Whitepaper on Consent to Electronic Information Exchange of Medical Records. Also on March 23, Dr. Deborah Peel, founder of Patient Privacy Rights has published an opinion in The Wall Street Journal emphasizing the absolute need for obtaining patient consent prior to sharing private information.
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