“Until recently, California’s record of health care for its prison inmates was abysmal. After lawsuits and a federal takeover, however, the state stands to have one of the best systems in the country in the next few years. It will be fueled by a massive investment in health information technology.
By the end of next year, if things go as planned, a high-speed fiber-optic network will link California’s 33 prisons, and each institution will have a fast local-area network connecting all its buildings. The goal is to have the entire system’s medical recordkeeping and other processes fully electronic by 2013.”
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Brian Robinson, GHIT Notebook, 8 October 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology and telemedicine
; posted on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
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“To promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology, and for other purposes.”
Preliminary bill text
US House of representatives
Tagged: adoption, e health, Health Information Technology, ownership and quality
; posted on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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“NHS informatics professional body ASSIST has published a paper saying the original NHS National Programme for IT plan of one size fits all approach “does not work”.”
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Insider, 8 October 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology
; posted on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
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“Physician groups in California that scored the highest in a recent set of pay-for-performance awards were consistently the most sophisticated users of health IT, according to an analysis by the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA).
When the clinical scores of groups were compared, those who rated the highest for IT-enabled “systemness,” or depth of an organization’s use of health IT, had over 40 percent higher clinical performance scores than those with the lowest systemness levels, according to the IHA.”
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Brian Robinson, Government health IT, 6 October 2008
Tagged: benefits and Health Information Technology
; posted on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 8:30 am
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“Assist, an association of 1,800 IT professionals in the NHS, has called for the NHS to adopt “simple systems” which can be configured locally - not more sophisticated systems which it says bring rigidity.
But the government and the Department of Health plan the opposite. As part of the £12.7bn National Programme for IT [NPfIT] they are to roll out progressively more sophisticated standardized systems at trusts across England.”
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Tony Collins, Computer Weekly, 7 October 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology
; posted on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
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“Open source advocates are greeting the idea of using already-existing-in-the-public-domain technology as the framework for a national health information network with open arms, tempered by a “what-took-you-so-long?” attitude.”
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat, 1 October 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology and open source
; posted on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 am
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“Tomorrow, I keynote the Medsphere meeting in New York City, where I will discuss the Potential and Caveats of Open Source software for healthcare. To prepare, I asked Fred Trotter, a leading expert on free and open source software for healthcare, to comment.”
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO, 1 October 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology and open source
; posted on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
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“I recently received a comment from a healthcare blogger, Dr. Peter Kim, in response to my note about Microsoft’s EMR product, Amalga (see: Amalga Makes Inroads in the EMR World). It raises some interesting points so I reproduce it below. You may want to take a look at Dr. Kim’s blog (see: The EMR/EHR Show). He has also blogged specifically about Google’s role in EMR development (see: Is Google The Answer To EMR?).”
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Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News, 30 September 2008
Tagged: emr, Google Health, Health Information Technology and HealthVault
; posted on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 8:52 am
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“Welcome to the very first public comment period for Personal Health Records draft criteria for certification:
Public Comment - CCHIT Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.
There is an introductory document that accompanies the PHR criteria that I encourage all commenters to read.”
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Ted Eytan MD, 29 September 2008
Tagged: certification, Health Information Technology and phr
; posted on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 8:34 am
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“The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) announced today results of a survey that shows momentum is building to financially coax physicians into adopting electronic health records (EHRs).
The Commission reported over $700 million in funding programs have sprung up in the past two years to subsidize healthcare IT adoption.”
Article
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News, 25 September 2008
Tagged: adoption and Health Information Technology
; posted on Thursday, September 25th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
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“The U.S. health care system offers some of the most advanced and effective care in the world, with some of the best-trained providers and most advanced technology. Yet, the United States spends more per capita on health care than any other developed country while often achieving equal or poorer results in terms of health outcomes and access to services.
Health information technology (HIT) and electronic health information exchange (HIE) are critical tools in states’ efforts to transform health care in this country. HIT has strong potential to drive health system improvements, and states have taken steps in recent years to promote widespread use of HIT and enable access to information through electronic exchange.”
Report
State Alliance for e-Health, September 2008
Tagged: e prescribing, Health Information Exchange and Health Information Technology
; posted on Thursday, September 25th, 2008 at 8:17 am
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“The State Alliance for e-Health, made up of governors and state officials from across the country, is calling on states to support e-prescribing and address medical privacy and security issues in order to boost healthcare IT.”
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 23 September 2008
Tagged: consumer, disease management, disease surveillance, e health, e prescribing, Health Information Technology, interoperability, privacy, security and standards
; posted on Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 at 7:46 am
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“Grid technology, one of the key technologies for the European Research Area, offers rapid computation, large scale data storage and flexible collaboration by harnessing together the power of large numbers of computers, from end-users desktops to powerful workstations and clusters of more powerful machines.”
Report
Mark Olive, Hanene Rahmouni and Tony Solomonides based on I. Andoulsi; I. Blanquer; V. Breton ; A. Dobrev; C. Van Doosselaere; V. Hernandez; J. Herveg; N. Jacq; Y. Legr; M. Olive; H. Rahmouni; T. Solomonides; K. Stroetmann; V. Stroetmann; P. Wilson, European Commission, October 2008
Tagged: europe, GRID and Health Information Technology
; posted on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 8:26 am
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“Healthcare IT does not necessarily make life easier for primary care physicians, says a leader in the movement to make medicine more efficient and patient-centered.”
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Richard PIzzi, Healthcare IT News, 19 September 2008
Tagged: emr and Health Information Technology
; posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
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“Although the Health and Human Services Department has made progress in ensuring the protection of health information in a national network, there is still room for improvement, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.”
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John Moore, Government Health IT, 18 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology and privacy
; posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 7:47 am
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“Characterizing health care IT as a “sleeping giant,” members of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s Global Enterprise Task Force are working on the best ways to wake the giant up.”
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat, 18 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology
; posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 7:44 am
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“Although advances in information technology (IT) can improve the quality and other aspects of health care, the electronic storage and exchange of personal health information introduces risks to the privacy of that information. In January 2007, GAO reported on the status of efforts by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure the privacy of personal health information exchanged within a nationwide health information network. GAO recommended that HHS define and implement an overall privacy approach for protecting that information. For this report, GAO was asked to provide an update on HHS’s efforts to address the January 2007 recommendation. To do so, GAO analyzed relevant HHS documents that described the department’s privacy-related health IT activities.”
Report
GAO, 17 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology and privacy
; posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 7:42 am
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“HHS has made progress in its efforts to implement electronic health records, but lacks an adequate system for ensuring that privacy concerns are addressed, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Wednesday, CongressDaily reports.”
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iHealthBeat, 18 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology and privacy
; posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 7:40 am
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“When it comes to the future of personalized medicine, leadership from the highest political level is needed to speed the field along, says Edward Abrahams, executive director of the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC), the Washington, D.C.-based organization that is shouldering the task of educating federal and state policymakers, helping them understand the science, the issues, and what is needed for the positive evolution of personalized medicine (PM).”
Article
Cindy Atoji, Digital Healthcare & Productivity, 16 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology and personalised medicine
; posted on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 7:41 am
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“I am posting this invitation from the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology in its entirety, because I am Co-Chair of the Personal Health Records Workgroup alongside Lory Wood from the Good Health Network. Ive been very impressed with the experience and talent that the group has brought to this first step and I have learned a ton. The input of the public is the next step. I encourage everyone to get involved.”
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Ted Eytan MD, 16 September 2008
Tagged: certification, Health Information Technology and phr
; posted on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 5:55 am
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“Yesterday, Health Data Management had a story about some new health IT legislation coming from Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.). I see lots of stories like it every time some member of Congress introduces a bill or even thinks about doing so, and I see just as many stories every time one subcommittee or another holds a hearing or takes a vote on health IT legislation.”
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Neil Versel’s Healthcare IT Blog, 16 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology and legal
; posted on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 5:52 am
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“The nation’s healthcare IT chief, Robert M. Kolodner, MD, says a new report released by eHealth Initiative shows tangible evidence of healthcare IT progress.
Kolodner and other leaders at a briefing Thursday commented on eHI’s “Fifth Annual Survey of Health Information Exchange at the State and Local Levels,” a survey of 130 community-based initiatives in 48 states, which revealed significant advances in healthcare information exchanges.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News, 12 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology
; posted on Monday, September 15th, 2008 at 8:12 am
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“House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Pete Stark (D-Calif.) this week plans to introduce a bill intended to encourage nationwide adoption of electronic health record technology that will include a provision to impose penalties on health care providers who fail to do so, CQ Today reports.”
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Medical News Today, 11 September 2008
Tagged: adoption, Health Information Technology and legal
; posted on Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 7:47 am
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“Focusing solely on the technical aspects of health information technology without also developing policy standards will not transform the nations health care system, according to an online report published this month in Health Affairs.”
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Annie Johnson, CQ Healthbeat News, 11 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology and standards
; posted on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
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“The Health IT Now Coalition plans to deliver a letter to Congress signed by more than 175 businesses, associations, patient organizations and nonprofit groups urging passage of health information technology legislation this year.”
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Nancy Ferris, Goverment Health IT, 10 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology
; posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
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“Patrick Kesteven, a consultant haematologist at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, is open and clear-minded when talking about why his trust board decided to break away from the 12.7bn National Programme for IT in the NHS.
“The National Programme was taking forever,” he says. He is not even sure that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) - the UK government’s biggest IT investment - will ever work as originally intended.”
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Tony Collins, ComputerWeekly, 10 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology
; posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
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“Expert panels and policy analysts have often ignored potential contributions to health information technology (IT) from the Internet and Web-based applications. Perhaps they are among the “unmentionables” of health IT. Ignoring those unmentionables and relying on established industry experts has left us with a standards process that is complex and burdened by diverse goals, easy for entrenched interests to dominate, and reluctant to deal with potentially disruptive technologies. We need a health IT planning process that is more dynamic in its technological forecasting and inclusive of IT experts from outside the industry.”
Abstract
David C. Kibbe and Curtis P. McLaughlin, Health Affairs, 27, no. 5 (2008): w396-w398, doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.5.w396
Tagged: Health Information Technology, internet and web
; posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 7:59 am
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“One of the biggest obstacles to expanding the use of information technology (IT) in health care may be the current narrow focus on how to stimulate its adoption. The challenge of thinking of IT as a tool to improve quality requires serious attention to transforming the U.S. health care system as a whole, rather than simply computerizing the current setup. Proponents of health IT must resist “magical thinking,” such as the notion that technology will transform our broken system, absent integrated work on policy or incentives. The alternative route to transforming the system sets all of its sights on the destination.”
Abstract
Carol C. Diamond and Clay Shirky, Health Affairs, 27, no. 5 (2008): w383-w390, doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.5.w383
Tagged: adoption and Health Information Technology
; posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 7:51 am
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“This is a cautionary tale. The morals of the story may not apply to health IT applications the same way they do to other parts of the information technology world, according to some industry experts. Others say they do, indirectly.
Either way, the saga of how a network administrator held a city’s information system hostage has implications for anyone who comes in contact with health care IT — and that covers an increasingly large portion of our culture as we move toward a digital society.”
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat, 4 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology and security
; posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 7:37 am
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“For the second time in four months, legislative leaders and the Douglas administration have requested governance changes in a private organization charged with expanding the use of information technology in health care.”
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Nancy Remsen, Burlington Free Press, 6 September 2008
Tagged: Health Information Technology
; posted on Monday, September 8th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
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