Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Recognizing that electronic health records (EHRs) can and do cause medical errors, a group of EHR vendors has agreed to support a patient-safety organization’s online system for reporting adverse events.
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Jim Tate, HitechAnswers
“It was just a matter of time before it was said out loud. The ability of ONC-ATCB certified EHRs to accurately generate meaningful use data is being brought into question. A complete EHR must be able to “electronically record the numerator and denominator and generate a report including the numerator, denominator, and resulting percentage associated with each applicable meaningful use measure.”
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Two reporting tools in the Centricity Electronic Medical Record product of GE Healthcare may inaccurately report at least three meaningful use measures, the company has told customers.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Breast-imaging reports prepared using a speech-recognition system are eight times more likely than conventional dictation transcription reports to contain major errors, according to a study of 615 such documents.
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Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“Within, perhaps, three to four years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is anticipating that hospitals no longer will need to abstract manually from their electronic health records (EHRs) quality measures that are required under the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pledging that in a few years hospitals no longer will have to abstract from patient charts quality measures required under the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“David Blumenthal, MD, head of ONC, was on hand last week to help announce the launch of EHRevent.org, a safety reporting system that will let healthcare providers report problems in the implementation and use of EHRs. It will serve as a tracking system so the industry can identify trends and react quickly.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“It’s almost 2011. Do you know where your electronic health records are?
The EHR news was voluminous this week, starting with the debut of a new EHR safety reporting system.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“With the proposed new health IT glitch-reporting system, developers will know immediately when a complaint has been lodged against their EHR, and vendors may even know the name of the person who filed the complaint.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“There’s little question that electronic health records reduce adverse drug events and improve quality of care. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be doing everything to make sure they’re as safe and as easy to use as possible, said National Coordinator for HIT, David Blumenthal, MD
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Medical News Today
“A new electronic health record (EHR) safety reporting system was announced today by the iHealth Alliance, a not-for-profit organization composed of medical society and professional liability carrier executives in collaboration with federal agencies and PDR Network.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“We know the basics of the EMR: an EMR or electronic medical record is a computerized record created in hospitals and other medical institutions. This system allows storage of data in a format that can be easily retrieved and manipulated when required. Implementation of this system will increase the quality and cost of medical care by decreasing the errors and by reducing the time taken for each treatment.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Making the assumption that electronic medical records can improve healthcare costs and errors is premature, according to a dermatologist practicing in Florida.
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Justine Cadet, CMIO
“Healthcare systems are utilizing new techniques to mine large amounts of biological, clinical and administrative data within clinical data repositories (CDRs) and EMRs.
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Medical News Today
“Increasing the use of quality measurement as part of electronic health records (EHR) systems is critical to achieving meaningful use of health information technology, the American College of Physicians (ACP) reported in a paper released today at the 129,000-member organization’s annual meeting.
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Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
“Hospitals and doctors should be required to report data glitches that create “hazards and near-misses” that affect patient safety to a national patient safety organization starting in 2013, according to recommendations proposed today by a Health and Human Services Department advisory workgroup.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“A new product aims to improve quality of care by pulling real-time patient information and using it to prompt best-practice suggestions, alerts or other treatment protocols.
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Herasevich, Vitaly et al, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 85(3)
OBJECTIVE:
To develop and validate an informatics infrastructure for syndrome surveillance, decision support, reporting, and modeling of critical illness.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“CSC has signed a major contract with the Danish National Board of Health to provide a national adverse incident system to allow patients and professionals to report adverse events encountered across the entire health service.
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