Transparency
Feeley TW et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(12)
Physicians’ notes are one of the oldest tools in medicine and have evolved into today’s electronic medical record. As we move toward greater transparency in health care, one emerging concept is that sharing information among patients, caregivers, and involved clinicians can improve efficiency, decrease redundancy, and decrease cost. The concept of improving health care delivery by sharing the medical record with the patient is not new.
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20 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: RA Research, Record Access, Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Access, emr, Notes, Patient, Physicians, Provider, Transparency
Maria Chappelle-Nadal, St. Louis American
“Throughout all of the debates and disagreements associated with healthcare reform, one idea is universal throughout the political field – each side wants to improve the quality of medicine and decrease the associated costs. Missouri is no different.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Interoperability, Semantic, Sustainability, Transparency
Medical News Today
“The demand for transparency through publicly available healthcare data is on the rise. This is the case for administrative and clinical data for research, and for clinical trials data used to support new drug approvals. Broad data access has a measurable impact on research and policy making.
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19 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tag(s): Data Sharing, De-identification, Research, Transparency
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Transparency of cost and quality data in health care has been a rallying cry for some time. The Commonwealth Fund published a sentinel article in 2006 outlining how collecting outcome and quality data, as well as cost data, is critical for any meaningful healthcare reform and in bending the cost curve going forward.
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10 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Quality, Transparency
Gary L. Thompson, HL7 Standards
“Can privacy kill? Although we can likely scour recent news to find cases where leaked information at Facebook has led to some unfortunate outcomes, this question is particularly vital in the realm of health information.
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28 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Privacy, Transparency
Houston Neal, Software Advice
“There’s a lot of talk about the risks of storing health information in electronic medical records (EMRs). But, EMRs aren’t the problem. Those consent forms you sign at the doctor’s office… yeah, you should pay attention to the fine print. You may be giving permission to insurance companies, drug makers, and data aggregators to access your health information, regardless of how or where it’s stored.
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10 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Consent, Data Aggregation, Data Protection, Health Information, Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Privacy, Security, Transparency
Karen Dearne, The Australian
“Australians will finally have a chance to shape the nation’s $467 million electronic health record system.
Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has agreed to release confidential plans for widespread debate.
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8 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): Privacy, Transparency
Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Organizations involved in exchanging electronic health records should provide patients with clear, brief notices about their data sharing policies, a privacy and security tiger team advising federal regulators says. In addition, they should make available a more detailed description of data exchange activities and privacy protections for those who want it.
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21 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Consent, Health Information Exchange, Patient, Transparency
Wendy S. Harpham, KevinMD
“Does the opportunity for patients to read their medical charts help or hurt patients’ ability to become Healthy Survivors?
Open notes can facilitate Healthy Survivorship for some patients.
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8 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Access, Notes, Patient, Transparency
Steven Kraus, Dynamic Chiropractic
“Cloud computing will likely permanently change the way you interact with your clinic records and your software. This transition to data on the cloud, an Internet-accessible database, is going to shift the way you practice.
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8 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, Implementation, Safety, Transparency
Pablo García Carvajal, Diario Médico
“Con unas normativas de seguridad cada vez más rigurosas, las organizaciones se enfrentan al reto de prevenir y erradicar cualquier peligro que pueda originar fugas de información sensible o brechas de datos que no sólo pueden llevar a incumplir la ley y pagar cuantiosas multas, sino que también dañan su imagen de marca y su reputación corporativa.
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7 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tag(s): Security, Transparency
Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Healthcare needs more transparency.
That shouldn’t be a controversial statement, but it often is.
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12 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Health Information, Social Media, Transparency
Francis LP. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 38(1)
The growing use of interoperable electronic health records is likely to have significant effects on the physician-patient relationship. This relationship involves two-way trust: of the physician in patients, and of the patients in their providers. Interoperable records opens up this relationship to further view, with consequences that may both enhance and undermine trust. On the one hand, physicians may learn (from additional records) that information from their patients is — or is not — to be trusted.
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5 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Confidentiality, Physician-Patient Relationship, Transparency
Alex Johnson, MSNBC
“There’s an easily identifiable culprit to blame for Americans’ not having fully digitized health care service and medical records:
You.
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11 January 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Consumer, Costs, Industry, Patient, Privacy, Security, Transparency
3G Doctor Blog
“Click the image to watch a great video interview by CNBC’s Jane Wells with “Billionaire Doctor” Patrick Soon-Shiong, Executive Director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute, in which he describes the fundamental importance of the Mobile Phone in the future delivery of Health:”
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2 January 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adherence, mHealth, Ownership, portability, Privacy, Telemonitoring, Transparency
Ted Eytan, MD
“I’m not that smart and my ideas are not that unique.
This is why I enjoy writing the posts that are tagged “where we came from” on this blog.
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18 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Access, Information Sharing, Meaningful Use, Patient, Transparency
MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“I have created a new Web petition “Transparency and Openness in Electronic Patient Records and Other Healthcare Information Technology Systems.”
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16 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Transparency
Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Long before ARRA, more than five years ago, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center began a $50 million electronic medical record initiative. This past summer, UCSF reportedly wrote off a third of that cost and scrapped its contract with the EMR vendor.
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30 November 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Hospitals, Transparency
Aliya Sternstein, NextGov
“Debate is growing over public access to anticipated data comparing the results of health care treatments subsidized by Medicare and Medicaid.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Access, Claims Data, Transparency, vendors
The Health Care Trackers Blog
“I am seeing more and more transparency among health care organizations. Just this week Oklahoma became more involved in the process. They launched a new web site called www.okhospitalquality.org.
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20 February 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Consumer, Electronic Data Capture, Hospitals, participatory, Transparency
