“Like many medical practices our office has thrown around the idea of leaving our paper charts and moving toward an electronic health record for some time. I have been quite critical of the lack of compatibility of EHRs here and I hold to this position; however, they are clearly the trend and many do offer database functions that can be a powerful tool, not an end in of itself like many insurers seem to believe, but a tool in patient care.”
Article
The Country Doc Report, 17 November 2008
Tagged: costs
; posted on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 11:03 am
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“Cost and security concerns about bringing health care record keeping into the 21st century through electronic health records (EHR)have led to a call for an effective regulatory and oversight system from a pair of Case Western Reserve University professors.”
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ScienceDaily, 30 October 2008
Tagged: access, costs, legal and security
; posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
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“Operating costs at many medical group practices rose faster than revenues in 2007, according to a new survey by the Medical Group Management Association - a situation that some industry insiders blame on the slow uptake of information technology by physicians.”
Article
Richard Pizzi, Healthcare IT News, 23 October 2008
Tagged: adoption, costs, information technology and medical home
; posted on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
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“Despite the fact that electronic medical record programs and services are in demand, many have remained skeptical about them. But an article on the American Academy of Family Practice has shown that it may be a feasible option. The piece addresses all queries and hesitations on the efficiency of the service and the systems themselves.”
Article
Maintain a Healthy, 22 October 2008
Tagged: adoption, benefits and costs
; posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 9:17 am
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“Hard numbers are confirming the hoped-for benefits of a major change that is slowly transforming health care.
According to a 2008 national survey of 130 health information exchanges (networks that connect all the parts of the health care system) the majority reported reduced health care costs, fewer errors in prescribing, better patient outcomes and reductions in malpractice insurance costs. The survey was conducted by the nonprofit eHealth Initiative.”
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Mel Huff, Times Argus, 19 October 2008
Tagged: adoption, benefits, costs and Health Information Exchange
; posted on Monday, October 20th, 2008 at 9:27 am
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“With a few keystrokes, Andrew Catanzaro, an internist with Aurora Advanced Healthcare, can call up a patient’s medical problems, test results, prescriptions and medical history.
He will know if a woman has a family history of ovarian cancer or if a man’s father died of abdominal aortic aneurysm — information that once may have been buried or even missing from a paper chart.
He will get reminders if the patient is due for a test and warnings if a new prescription may interact with another drug.”
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Guy Boulton, RedOrbit, 5 October 2008
Tagged: costs, efficiency and hospitals
; posted on Monday, October 6th, 2008 at 8:30 am
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“Achieving comprehensive national uptake of health information technology (IT) is a monumental issue for the United States, in terms of improving patient safety, lowering taxpayer costs, and making health care portable in our increasingly portable society. By incorporating advanced IT into our health care delivery system, we will be able to transform our current system into one that better meets patients’ needs consistently through timely, affordable, transparent, interoperable processes that assure instant access to complete medical information — anytime, anywhere — that is transmitted seamlessly and securely from provider to provider.”
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Nancy Davenport-Ennis, Health Affairs, 20 August 2008
Tagged: costs, Health Information Technology, portability and safety
; posted on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 9:12 am
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“Health care reform is a divisive issue in Washington, but there is wide agreement on one solution to lower costs and improve care: health information technology, or health IT. Health IT replaces paper medical records with electronic records. This is how I run my Baltimore-based wire basket and hook company; shouldn’t my doctor do the same?”
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Drew Greenblatt, Baltimore Sun, 18 August 2008
Tagged: benefits, costs, Health Information Technology and medical errors
; posted on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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“As the chief medical information officer for Fairview Health Services, Dr. Ray Gensinger knows well the challenges and potential of medicine’s shift from paper to electronic patient records. And so when Gov. Tim Pawlenty recently threw his weight behind one of the most practical applications born of that transition — a consumer-owned, web-accessible personal health record — Gensinger approved. “It’s the right direction to go and somebody has to say ‘Move!’ as opposed to standing around talking about it.’.”
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Star Tribune, 14 August 2008
Tagged: benefits, costs, Google Health, HealthVault and phr
; posted on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 at 7:00 am
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“Don’t bother.”
Those were probably not the words most health information technology advocates like to hear during a congressional hearing on electronic health records, but those words were part of the candid assessment given by Philip Tally on behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, on whether physicians nearing retirement age should invest in an EHR system.”
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Andis Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare, 6 August 2008
Tagged: adoption and costs
; posted on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 6:33 am
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“Congress should provide tax breaks and other incentives to help small physician practices buy and maintain electronic health record, or EHR, systems, said a family physician who testified before the House Committee on Small Business here on July 31.”
Article
James Arvantes, AAFP News, 6 August 2008
Tagged: adoption, costs, Health Information Technology and interoperability
; posted on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 6:26 am
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“Reaching a tipping point in the adoption of electronic medical records by small or specialty medical practices will likely require some form of congressional intervention, said health care experts at a hearing held July 31 by the House Small Business Committee.”
Article
John Pulley, Government Health IT, 1 August 2008
Tagged: adoption and costs
; posted on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 8:25 am
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“Full implementation of networked e-health records in U.S. doctors’ offices and hospitals could cost around $150 billion over eight years, a California professor told an Institute of Medicine workshop today.”
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Nancy Ferris, Government Health IT, 31 July 2008
Tagged: costs
; posted on Friday, August 1st, 2008 at 7:13 am
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“The Bush administration is running a full-court press on physicians to get them to embrace electronic prescribing well ahead of a new Medicare mandate that is a little more than three years away.
Under the Medicare payment bill that became law in July, doctors who prescribe electronically for Part D patients in 2009 will get an incentive payment equal to 2% of all the Medicare services they provide for the year. This bonus will phase down over five years and disappear at the beginning of 2014.”
Article
David Glendinning, AMNews, 4 August 2008
Tagged: costs and e prescribing
; posted on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 at 7:28 am
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“PHRs simply won’t go anywhere without data and arguably the bes source of data is a physician EMR system. Unfortunately, the adoption of EMR is abysmal across the care continuum of providers sitting at somewhere around 15-20% depending on how you count it/who you believe.”
Article
John Moore, Chilmark Research, 25 July 2008
Tagged: adoption, costs and emr
; posted on Saturday, July 26th, 2008 at 8:06 am
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“The use of electronic medical records has been touted as an enormous economic benefit in terms of cost savings as well as a boon to increasing patient safety. So why aren’t more doctors using them?
Although many doctors employed by larger medical entities are making use of EMRs because the costs of implementing the system are covered, smaller practices with few doctors are unable to afford the $5,000-$50,000 start-up costs, not to mention the approximately $1,000-a-month maintenance fee.”
Article
Jennifer Bunn, Amateur Economists, 23 July 2008
Tagged: costs and emr
; posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
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“A casual observer of recent Congressional action might think the road to a well informed federal HIT policy would be straight and smooth. A closer look suggests just the opposite: Congress is moving ahead with no idea of what it wants HIT to do. Couple that with the Congressional Budget Office’s May 2008 paper, “Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology” and you can begin to get a sense of the challenges ahead.”
Article
Bruce Merlin Fried, iHealthBeat, 1 July 2008
Tagged: adoption, costs and Health Information Technology
; posted on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 8:12 am
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“The nation’s two electronic prescription networks plan to announce today that they are merging in an effort to encourage the adoption of their technology by doctors and patients.
Alexandria-based SureScripts and St. Paul, Minn.-based RxHub are extensions of different parts of the pharmaceutical industry. SureScripts is owned by retail and independent pharmacies; RxHub is owned by three major drug benefit managers, which are also mail-order pharmacies. The companies say they hope the broader use of the technology will cut down on costs and medical mistakes.”
Article
Zachary A. Goldfarb, Washington Post, 1 July 2008
Tagged: costs, e prescribing, medical errors and pharmaceutical
; posted on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 at 8:55 pm
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“With electronic health records seen widely as a way to make medical care better and possibly cheaper, it is disturbing how slowly they are being adopted by American physicians. If this country does not accelerate the conversion from paper to modern technologies, many of the gauzy promises of health care reform made by politicians and health planners will become irrelevant.”
Article
Editorial, The New York Times, 24 June 2008
Tagged: costs
; posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
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“Consumers, employers, payers and providers agree that information flows are critical to helping stem health care costs. While there is shared concern about health care costs, there is also a shared desire for more, accessible information and better online tools for managing it.”
Article
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, The Health Care Blog, 24 June 2008
Tagged: costs and health information
; posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
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“Digital technology is all the rage, but there are three reasons patients and doctors may want to avoid online electronic medical records.”
Article
Twila Brase, The Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2008
Tagged: access, consent, costs, privacy and secondary data use
; posted on Monday, June 23rd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
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“You don’t have to go far to find a politician cheerleading for the magical cost-cutting abilities of health information technology.
Democratic and Republican policy makers point to “health IT” like electronic medical records and e-prescribing systems as a big potential money saver for America’s inefficient and expensive health system.
But in the glare of computer touch screens and smart cards, it’s easy to lose sight of what health IT can do — and more importantly can’t do — for the faltering U.S. medical system.”
Article
Todd Zwillich, WebMD Health News, 20 June 2008
Tagged: costs and Health Information Technology
; posted on Saturday, June 21st, 2008 at 9:31 am
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“Less than one in 20 American doctors is using fully functional electronic health records and e-prescribing systems in their offices. And researchers say that figure shows that the switch to the new technology is moving too slowly.”
Article
Todd Zwillich, WebMD Health News, 18 June 2008
Tagged: adoption, costs and e prescribing
; posted on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 7:52 am
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“Many people believe that health information technology (health IT) has the potential to transform the practice of health care by reducing costs and improving quality. In this paper, prepared at the request of the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examines the evidence on the costs and benefits of health information technology, possible barriers to a broader distribution and use of it in hospitals and clinicians’ offices, and possible options for the federal government to promote use of health IT. In keeping with CBO’s mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, the paper makes no policy recommendations.”
Report
Stuart Hagen, CBO, May 2008
Tagged: benefits, costs and Health Information Technology
; posted on Saturday, June 14th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
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