Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has given the green light to a proposed arrangement that would allow providers’ medical data stored in their electronic health records to be shared for the purpose of referring patients to each other.
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Gardner E. Health Data Management Magazine, 19(5)
In Minnesota, Hennepin County Medical Center sends immunization records electronically to the state health department’s registry, part of a test that will eventually allow all of the state’s physicians to both submit that data securely and access complete immunization records on all their patients.
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Alisdair Stirling, Pulse
“Exclusive: The Government has quietly dropped its long-standing target of channelling 90% of GP referrals through Choose and Book, Pulse can reveal.
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IICDORG
“Kibosho Hospital is remotely located in Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Region and no specialists are available. By using telemedicine, the hospital can now upload complex medical cases to the internet where specialists can provide advice. The telemedicine programme in Tanzania is supported by Dutch organisation IICD.”
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“A survey of 183 physicians reveals that only 16% said they electronically send patient records when referring patients to another provider. The findings come from a study conducted by Growth Survey Research on behalf of electronic health record (EHR) provider Practice Fusion.
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Singh H et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2010
OBJECTIVES:
Electronic health records (EHR) enable transmission and tracking of referrals between primary-care practitioners (PCPs) and subspecialists. We used an EHR to examine follow-up actions on electronic referral communication in a large multispecialty VA facility.
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Aanesen M et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010
Background and purpose
There are several cost-benefit evaluations of introducing new technology for administrative purposes in the health care sector. Whereas some of these recognise the importance of adapting the working procedures to the new technology, very few look into the consequences of delays in adaptation to the new technology. In this paper, we focus on the consequences of keeping old working procedures, although new technology is implemented.
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Karen Friedrich, HIMSS News
“Given the new and emerging demands of health information exchange (HIE), providers must excel in performing functions that improve quality, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency and patient safety.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Closing the loop” is an important concept in coordination of health care, which refers to good communication between referring physicians and those clinicians who receive the referrals.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Connecting for Health has announced that 20m referrals have now been made through Choose and Book.
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Ferrer-Roca, Olga et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(2)
Background:
Referrals from rural health centers to urban hospitals join waiting lists as outpatients for hospital admission and hospital treatment. This influences quality of life (QoL) of the rural population and retired people who require medical attention without traveling, provided no risks are involved. For this reason, a rural region of Spain has adopted a strategy to deliver telemedicine (TM) specialized care (Extremadura model) as a political decision.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“In the past months I have been religiously dialing in and listening to the ONC Policy and Standards committees meetings. The amount of work done by the members is nothing short of monumental and the combined knowledge and experience is astounding.
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Mastouri, Negin et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 8(3)
Introduction:
One of the root causes for Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding stems from challenges with patient flow from acute to post-acute care institutions. Significant improvements to the referral process can be made by moving to an electronic Resource Matching and Referral (RM&R) system, which could be used to facilitate accessing accurate and consistent data relating to referral patterns, waitlists, response times, referral efficiencies, and gaps in programs/services.
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David Donald, Daily Commercial
“A Clermont-based software company is changing the way physicians and hospitals handle patient referrals, switching from a paper to an electronic system.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Use of Map of Medicine in primary care has led to a significant reduction in inadequate referrals from GPs, according to a new study.
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