The Sacramento Bee
“U-M researchers are calling for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to encourage a more seamless exchange of information between electronic health records and immunization registries.
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Alexandra Albin, e-patients.net
“A conversation on the SPM listserve was started by Joleen Chambers, @JjrkCh, a patient advocate for patients with failed medical devices. Here’s her Failed Implant Device Blog.
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Sue Dunlevy, The Australian
“Software under trial that warns pharmacists not to dispense addictive medication to drug addicts if they have been given such medication just days before could bring addictions under control if introduced.
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Hal Amens, EHR Bloggers
“The news about the FDA and breast implants and surgical mesh provided the impetus for this post and it may even prove to be a useful part of the resolution of questions about their safety. At the same time, it provides a model for other devices where safety is an open issue and for new medications and medical procedures that need to be tracked over time to fully prove their effectiveness and safety.
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Mike Popovich, STC
“As the immunization registry family of states, vendors and the CDC team start into the eighteenth year of implementing state registries, there are new opportunities for all of us to deliver on the original objectives of these systems.
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Resnic FS et al, JAMA, 304(18)
Context
Ensuring the safety of medical devices challenges current surveillance approaches, which rely heavily on voluntary reporting of adverse events. Automated surveillance of clinical registries may provide early warnings in the postmarket evaluation of medical device safety. Objective To determine whether automated safety surveillance of clinical registries using a computerized tool can provide early warnings regarding the safety of new cardiovascular devices.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A new study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN) points to improved care for patients with mild to moderate chronic kidney disease when their healthcare information is aggregated in a registry.
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Navaneethan SD et al, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2010
Background and objectives:
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing, and outcomes-related research from diverse health care settings is needed to target appropriate efforts and interventions. We developed an electronic health record (EHR)-based CKD registry at the Cleveland Clinic and validated comorbid conditions.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“EMRs keep on proving their mettle in the area of care coordination.
The latest evidence comes from Kaiser Permanente Colorado, which improved outcomes by mining its EMR and electronic disease registries to match patients with heart disease to clinical pharmacy specialists and “personalized” nurses.
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Chris Rauber, San Francisco Business Times
“Kaiser Permanente and the small nation of Denmark seem to be forming a mutual admiration society.
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Ano Lobb, Justmeans
“The first posting in this series outlined how Kaiser Permanente has developed a registry of joint replacements as one approach to creating meaningful measures of health care outcomes.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Many hospitals and physician offices are beginning to embark on the journey to implement and derive meaningful use out of EHRs. The Beacon communities will demonstrate how health IT can improve clinical outcomes, drive efficiencies and increase patient safety. Early adopters of EMRs and EHRs will also serve as role models in terms of where to find value and ROI. There has to be a business case for any IT investment, and finding multiple business cases for EHRs will only increase adoption.
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Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“The press release follows below. Not to steal any thunder here but look at what is being developed to work with the registry and PHR – bar codes. If you are a regular reader here you know what the focus is on my campaign for a bar coding system for recalls, drug identification and more.
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Bates, David W., and Asaf Bitton, Health Affairs, 29(4)
Most electronic health records today need further development of features that patient-centered medical homes require to improve their efficiency, quality, and safety. We propose a road map of the domains that need to be addressed to achieve these results. We believe that the development of electronic health records will be critical in seven major areas: telehealth, measurement of quality and efficiency, care transitions, personal health records, and, most important, registries, team care, and clinical decision support for chronic diseases.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“I’ve still got the first day of the San Francisco Regional Healthcare Stimulus Exchange National Road Show on my mind because there was a lot of meaningful – no pun intended – dialogue going on in many of the sessions.
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Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“Certainly the idea of creating patient registries is not a new one. Tumor registries have been in existence for many decades.
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PR-USA.net
“The Agence de la sante et des services sociaux de Montreal has signed a five-year, C$3.6 million deal with Artefact Informatique, the health division of LGS Group Inc., an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company – the first of its kind in Canada – to build a registry for digital medical images based on the Canada-wide Cross-enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) standard.
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Richard Scoville, The Health Care Blog
“I spent a couple of days last week (June 10-11) at a conference co-sponsored by the HRSA Center for Quality and the NIH National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at which twenty of the highest-performing community health centers from the HRSA’s long-running Health Disparities Collaboratives (HDCs) described their accomplishments in improving primary care. They were stunning.
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Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare
“There’s no doubt that the use of registries could help doctors deliver better care, with or without EHRs. If the new HHS Secretary includes them as one way to meet the definition of meaningful EHR use, more physicians would use registries, and patients would benefit.
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