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Dissatisfaction Rampant Among Community Hospital EHR Users
“One in three community hospitals that deployed an electronic health record (EHR) system within the past year are dissatisfied with their vendor of choice, says a new report from health consulting firm KLAS.
A third of those surveyed believed they made the wrong decision and reported they wouldn’t buy the product again. Although vendor performance wasn’t [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 5, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Hospitals Satisfaction vendors Source Type: news
Bill tackles telehealth reimbursement, licensure
On December 30th, at the very end of the 112th Congress, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Cali.) introduced a comprehensive bill to improve Medicare and Medicaid coverage of telehealth. This isn’t new territory for Thomson; he introduced some major telehealth legislation as a California State Senator in the 1990s.
The latest bill’s definition of “telehealth” covers various health [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - January 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jonah Comstock Tags: Uncategorized Affordable Care Act American Telehealth Association Congress House of Re House of Representatives Medicaid Medicare mobile health legislation remote patient monitoring Telehealth Promotion Act of 2012 Source Type: news
Cloud Computing: Security a Hurdle
“While cloud computing can often provide cost-effective and convenient ways for healthcare organizations to store and share data and diagnostic images, two CISOs and a privacy advocate caution that security concerns are substantial.
At a recent conference, the CISOs spelled out their concerns, ranging from difficulty enforcing strong business associate agreements with cloud providers to vendors’ [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Cloud Privacy Security Source Type: news
Researchers link DNA with EHRs, leverage data for genomic research
“While the data stored in electronic health records is primarily clinical in nature, intended to help physicians diagnose patients and record treatments, researchers interested in examining rare diseases and other genetic health factors are increasingly turning to those EHRs as a source of data. Instead of relying on questionnaires or interviews by staff to [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News DNA Genomics Source Type: news
Chapter 13: Mining Electronic Health Records in the Genomics Era
The combination of improved genomic analysis methods, decreasing genotyping costs, and increasing computing resources has led to an explosion of clinical genomic knowledge in the last decade. Similarly, healthcare systems are increasingly adopting robust electronic health record (EHR) systems that not only can improve health care, but also contain a vast repository of disease and [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Biobank Free text Genomics Narrative Source Type: news
Federal government releases patient safety plan for electronic health records
“The federal office in charge of a massive rollout of electronic health records has issued a plan aimed at making those systems safer by encouraging providers to report problems to patient safety organizations.
Though some in the field say it doesn’t go far enough, others said the plan is an important step for an office whose [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Patient Safety Source Type: news
Mostashari praises iBlueButton
Almost everyone in the healthcare IT world, and beyond, has heard of Blue Button, a federal program designed for, initially, veterans, and now Medicare beneficiaries, to download their electronic health records (EHRs). But, now there's something new to add to that growing trend: the iBlueButton app.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Bettina Experton Bipartisan Policy Center Farzad Mostashari Health Information Technology Humetrix iBlue Button Industry News iPad iPhone Medicare mobile device Todd Stein Washington, DC Electronic Health Records Source Type: news
ONC looking to 17 Beacon communities for HIT evidence database
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is looking to 17 Beacon communities nationwide to gain an
Source: Healthcare IT News - January 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mary Mosquera Tags: Online Only BANGOR Janhavi Kirtane Maine Mississippi ONC San Diego Health Information Exchange (HIE) Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Independa adds $1.65M in new funding from LG, City Hill
Independa, a developer of telehealth products for senior care and aging in place, has closed its Series A funding at $5 million after landing $1.65 million in new investments from, among others, existing partner LG Electronics USA and earlier financier City Hill Ventures. Last October Independa announced $1 million in funding and in April 2012 [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - January 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Uncategorized aging in place City Hill Ventures Independa Independa Angela LG Electronics USA senior care telehealth Source Type: news
New HIPAA Guidance on De-Identifying Protected Health Information
Blog | January 04, 2013 | Health IT, Law & Malpractice, HIPAA, Patient ConfidentialityBy Daniel M. LindenbergHealth IT innovations have made sharing patient information the norm. Here's guidance on how to avoid violating HIPAA when disclosing that information.
Source: Physicians Practice - January 4, 2013 Category: Practice Management Authors: keithmartin Source Type: news
Technology Can Extend the Physician Assistant's Role in Patient Care
Technology Can Extend the Physician Assistant's Role in Patient CareBlog | January 04, 2013 | Health IT, Law & Malpractice, StaffBy Stephen H. Hanson, PA-CTelemedicine and other health IT tools can help physician assistants be more proactive in patient care. Some of the rules need to change too, however.
Source: Physicians Practice - January 4, 2013 Category: Practice Management Authors: keithmartin Source Type: news
2012: The year meaningful use took hold
The year 2012 was the year when data showed its muscle, whether in the presidential elections or in demonstrating how deeply entrenched the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records had become.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mary Mosquera Tags: Online Only Meaningful Use Medicare Mostashari ONC Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Source Type: news
6 new telehealth centers in the works
Federal authorities have earmarked $1.9 million in new funding for the nation's network of telehealth resource centers, paving the way for an additional five regional centers and one national center.
Once completed, those centers would join a network of 12 regional centers and two national centers, the latter of which focus on technology assessment and telehealth policy.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Eric Wicklund Tags: Online Only Alaska Services Administration The Health Resources Mobile/Wireless Telehealth Source Type: news
ONC Looking 10 17 Beacon Communities for HIT Evidence Database
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is looking to 17 Beacon communities nationwide to gain an evidence database from the beacons' experience to inform its policies and to share with other providers and organizations, according to Janhavi Kirtane, director of ONC's clinical transformation and dissemination.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - January 4, 2013 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Florida Hospital joins Stage 7 elite
Florida Hospital North Pinellas, an Adventist Health System facility in Tarpon Spring, Fla., has earned a HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award. The award represents attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), which is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only central Florida HIMSS Analytics Hospital North Pinellas Tarpon Spring Electronic Health Records Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Successful Implementation of a Telemedicine-Based Counseling Program for High-Risk Patients With Breast Cancer
An interactive audio and video telemedicine feasibility program was established to provide counseling on breast cancer risk-reducing strategies for underserved, high-risk Alaskan native women through a collaboration among the Alaska Native Medical Center, the Mayo Clinic Breast Clinic, Mayo’s Center for Innovation, and the Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network. The telemedicine model included a [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Implementation Oncology Satisfaction Telemedicine Source Type: news
An objective study of the impact of the electronic medical record on outcomes in trauma patients
It is commonly believed that the electronic medical record (EMR) will improve patient outcomes. However, there is scant published literature to support this claim and no studies in any surgical population. Our hypothesis was that the EMR would not improve objective outcome measures in patients with traumatic injury. Prospectively collected data from our university-based Level [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Trauma Care Source Type: news
Electronic Health Records: Current Issues in Oncology
“The electronic world continues to advance in the 21st century. In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act were enacted; in response, hospitals and oncology physician offices have or are implementing electronic health records (EHRs). As with any new technology or process, [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Oncology Source Type: news
Proposed bill would expand telehealth services, bolster federal payouts
A new bill introduced Sunday in the U.S. House of Representatives that, if passed, would expand telehealth services in Medicare and Medicaid programs has garnered the support of The American Telemedicine Association.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erin McCann Tags: Online Only American Telemedicine Association Congress Department of Veterans Affairs Jonathan Linkous Medicare Mike Thompson telecommunications U.S. House of Representatives Policy and Legislation Telehealth Source Type: news
Medicon 2013 (CfP)
The general theme of MEDICON 2013 is “Research and Development of Technology for Sustainable Healthcare”. This decade is being characterized by the appearance and use of emergent technologies under development. This situation has produced a tremendous impact on Medicine and Biology from which it is expected an unparalleled evolution in these disciplines towards novel concept [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Call News Biomedicine Sustainability Source Type: news
Q&A: Privacy maven Deborah Peel, MD
Deborah Peel, MD, was trained as a Freudian psychoanalyst and worked as a psychiatrist in Austin, Texas, for nearly three decades before becoming a privacy activist, founding the group Patient Privacy Rights in 2006 after being appalled by HIPAA’s evolution into what she sees as a weak baseline for privacy and security.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anthony Brino Tags: Online Only ADHD Austin computing Deborah Peel Department of Health and Human Services Texas Electronic Health Records Policy and Legislation Privacy and Security Source Type: news
Telemedicine gets boost from new rules
“Residents at the Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury who need to see a doctor are sometimes wheeled down the hall to a special room, where lights are turned down low and the doctor comes in via a television hookup with Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington.
Were it not for the telemedicine connection, [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Insurance Telemedicine Source Type: news
EHR incentive program to drive patient portals
“The federal incentive program for adoption of electronic health records is on the verge of driving a growth spike in patient portals, as meaningful use stage 2 requires that physicians engage with their patients and share more information.
Providers feel a sense of urgency to put in place online tools through which patients can view and [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Incentives Patient Portal Source Type: news
CPOE's MU role is 'meaningful'
Once considered the leading edge of information technology, computerized physician order entry is now simmering on the back burner of healthcare priorities.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Andrews Tags: Online Only Jonathan Teich Meaningful Use Robert Hitchcock Teresa Luckey Electronic Health Records Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Roundup: Predictions for digital health in 2013
As the new year kicks off so, too, do the predictions for mobile and digital health. Pundits ranging from physician consultants and startup CEOs to investors and research analysts were busy last month assembling a wide array of predictions and trends lists for the coming year. Below is MobiHealthNews’ roundup of some of the best:
At [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - January 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Dolan Tags: Uncategorized digital health digital health predictions mobile health quantified self Source Type: news
MU Stage 2 sparks patient portal market
The federal incentive program for adoption of electronic health records is on the verge of driving a growth spike in patient portals, as meaningful use stage 2 requires that physicians engage with their patients and share more information.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mary Mosquera Tags: Online Only Mark Allphin Meaningful Use Electronic Health Records Policy and Legislation Source Type: news
EHR spotlight on interoperability, Meaningful Use, security
“The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) ended 2012 on a high note but not without laying down the gauntlet for 2013 and the future of Meaningful Use.
“If we thought healthcare was just fine, we wouldn’t be here today,” said Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, national coordinator of health IT, speaking at ONC’s [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Interoperability Meaningful Use Security Source Type: news
First-of-its-kind HIPAA settlement announced, Idaho hospice group to pay
In what's been billed as the first HIPAA breach settlement involving fewer than 500 patients, Hospice of North Idaho (HONI) will pay the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $50,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations stemming from a 2010 incident, HHS officials announced Wednesday.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erin McCann Tags: Online Only Department of Health and Human Services Hospice of North Idaho Indiana Leon Rodriguez OCR Electronic Health Records Privacy and Security Source Type: news
Understanding the factors that influence the adoption and meaningful use of social media by physicians to share medical information
BACKGROUND
Within the medical community there is persistent debate as to whether the information available through social media is trustworthy and valid, and whether physicians are ready to adopt these technologies and ultimately embrace them as a format for professional development and lifelong learning.
OBJECTIVE
To identify how physicians are using social media to share and exchange medical [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Physicians Social Media Source Type: news
Docs Often Use Social Media on the Job: Survey
“About one in four U.S. doctors uses social media daily to scan or explore medical information, according to a new study.
The survey of nearly 500 cancer specialists (oncologists) and primary-care doctors also found that 14 percent contribute new information via social media each day, said the researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Physicians Social Media Source Type: news
Consumer-driven health plan members more likely to use health apps
A new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) suggests that not only are people who are enrolled in consumer-driven health plans more cost conscious, but they’re also more engaged with mobile health and digital health tools.
EBRI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that seeks to provide objective data about different employee benefit options. In [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - January 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jonah Comstock Tags: Uncategorized consumer driven health plan Employee Benefit Research Institute health insurance high deductible health plans mHealth research mhealth surveys mobile health research mobile health surveys Source Type: news
Alere to pay as much as $22M for MedApps
Waltham, Massachusetts-based Alere acquired wireless remote patient monitoring company MedApps last summer for an undisclosed sum, but according to Alere’s SEC filings, the most that Alere will potentially have to pay for MedApps – based on an undisclosed earn-out structure – is $22 million. The earn-out time period runs through mid-January 2015. MobiHealthNews broke the [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - January 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Dolan Tags: Uncategorized AirStrip Alere Alere Connect digital health HealthPAL MedApps mhealth remote patient monitoring Voxiva WellDoc Source Type: news
Docs lack access to psychiatric records
Medical centers that elect to keep psychiatric files private and separate from the rest of a person's medical record may be doing their patients a disservice, a Johns Hopkins study concludes.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Adam I. Kaplin the Johns Hopkins University Electronic Health Records Privacy and Security Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Lawyer: Ignore HIPAA at your own risk
Employers who ignore or are only partially compliant with healthcare privacy issues could face greater government scrutiny and fines, says Philadelphia attorney Christopher Ezold.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Alaska Christopher Ezold Department of Health Department of Health and Human Services information technology Leon Rodriguez OCR Philadelphia Tennessee Privacy and Security Source Type: news
Indiana HIPAA breach involves 29,000
The 70-bed Gibson General Hospital in southwest Indiana announced a data breach Friday involving the personal health information (PHI) of some 29,000 patients.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erin McCann Tags: Online Only Emmett Schuster Gibson General Hospital Indiana southwest Indiana Privacy and Security Source Type: news
Notice of Availability: Test Tools and Test Procedures Approved by the National Coordinator for the ONC HIT Certification Program
This notice announces the availability of test tools and test procedures approved by the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT) for the testing of Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology to the 2014 Edition EHR certification criteria under the ONC HIT Certification Program.
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - January 2, 2013 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Atrius Health's CEO Gene Lindsey banks on ACOs for better care
ACOs are an idea whose time has come, according to Gene Lindsey, MD, president and CEO of Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health.
A nonprofit alliance of six community-based medical groups representing more than 1,000 physicians, 1,425 other health professionals, Atrius Health serves nearly 1 million patients throughout Massachusetts, Atrius Health was chosen as one of 32 organizations to participate in the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) federal pilot, begun a year ago.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 1, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Atrius Health Harvard Industry News Lindsey Massachusetts Meaningful Use Medicare Newton Robert Ebert Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (H Source Type: news
We are bitter, but we are better off: case study of the implementation of an electronic health record system into a mental health hospital in England
Source: BMC Health Services Research
Area: Evidence > Medicines Management > References
Background: In contrast to the acute hospital sector, there have been relatively few implementations of integrated electronic health record (EHR) systems into specialist mental health settings. The National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) in England was the most expensive IT-based transformation of public services ever undertaken, which aimed amongst other things, to implement integrated EHR systems into mental health hospitals. This paper describes the arrival, the process of implementation, stake...
Source: NeLM - Mental Health - January 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
OCHIN awarded federal grant to help community health centers with HIT
The Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Bureau of Primary Health Care Health Center Controlled Network award is being made in increments of $775,000 per year over three years to OCHIN, Inc., a non-profit national leader in quality health information technology software and services focused on community health centers.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 31, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only According OCHIN Inc. Industry News Meaningful Use The Health Resources Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Electronic Health Records Source Type: news
Patient Privacy Rights asks HHS for guidance on cloud security
In April, the Department of Health and Human Services reached a $100,000 HIPAA settlement with Phoenix Cardiac Surgery, after the small physician practice had managed clinical and surgical appointments, between 2007 and 2009, using an Internet-based calendar that also happened to be publicly-available.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 31, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anthony Brino Tags: Online Only Austin Cloud Computing Deborah Peel Department of Health and Human Services Industry News Patient Privacy Rights PHOENIX Texas Electronic Health Records Privacy and Security Source Type: news
Quality reporting alignment on the way
Certified electronic health records will make it easier for providers to report clinical quality measures not only for meaningful use but also for other federal programs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to align some of those measures.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 31, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mary Mosquera Tags: Online Only Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Hospital IQR Meaningful Use Medicare Electronic Health Records Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Man meets machine at Johns Hopkins
"Disease is too complex to just think your way through it," says Raimond Winslow, director of The Institute for Computational Medicine at Johns Hopkins. "We can no longer work with what I call purely mental models of how biological systems function in either health or disease."
Thankfully, we have technology to lend a hand.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 31, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Denis Noble Industry News Oxford University Raimond Winslow The Institute Data Warehousing Quality and Safety RIS and PACS Source Type: news
A semantic-web oriented representation of the clinical element model for secondary use of electronic health records data
The clinical element model (CEM) is an information model designed for representing clinical information in electronic health records (EHR) systems across organizations. The current representation of CEMs does not support formal semantic definitions and therefore it is not possible to perform reasoning and consistency checking on derived models. This paper introduces our efforts to represent [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - December 29, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Secondary Data Use Semantic Web Source Type: news
Primary care practitioners’ views on test result management in EHR-enabled health systems: a national survey
CONTEXT:
Failure to notify patients of test results is common even when electronic health records (EHRs) are used to report results to practitioners. We sought to understand the broad range of social and technical factors that affect test result management in an integrated EHR-based health system.
METHODS:
Between June and November 2010, we conducted a cross-sectional, web-based [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - December 29, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science lab results Primary Care Source Type: news
The implications of e-health system delivery strategies for integrated healthcare: Lessons from England
Purpose
This paper explores the implications that different technical strategies for sharing patient information have for healthcare workers and, as a consequence, for the extent to which these systems provide support for integrated care.
Methods
Four technical strategies were identified and the forms of coupling they made with healthcare agencies were classified. A study was [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - December 29, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Health Information Exchange Information Management integration summary-care-records Source Type: news
Electronic Health Records and the Increasing Complexity of Medical Practice: “It Never Gets Easier, You Just Go Faster”
Electronic health records (EHRs) continue to make physicians’ lives more complicated. Through the EHR, physicians are being asked to take on ever more tasks that were previously done by office staff or are totally new to medical practice. Physicians maintain coded lists of diagnoses, medications, and allergies; enter orders; initiate referrals; fill out billing forms; [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - December 29, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Billing Implementation Meaningful Use Source Type: news
Telemedicine device gives medics a portable emergency room
“New devices that promise to enhance our telepresence experiences are nice, but what we really need, right now, is better telemedicine technology, particularly in emergency situations. A new solution called the LifeBot 5 offers the promise of exactly that.
The portable, 15-pound LifeBot device is ruggedized for use hazardous outdoor conditions and designed to be an [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - December 29, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News emergency Telemedicine Source Type: news
4 more predictions for 2013
It's that time again. There's snow on the ground (in some places, at least), fir trees have been sawn down and adorned with bright flashing lights and people are beginning to make their predictions for the year ahead. The healthcare IT industry being just like any other in that respect, practitioners, providers and pundits alike are sounding off on what 2012 was all about, and what the next rapidly approaching year has in store.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 28, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Benjamin Harris Tags: Online Only e-check Fred Pennic Lowell Mansoor Khan Massachusetts Source Type: news
4 cyber security threats for 2013
Kroll Advisory Solutions has released its 2013 Cyber Security Forecast, spotlighting some of the pressing and perhaps unexpected privacy and security issues healthcare and other organizations may be grappling with in the coming year.
While last year’s vulnerabilities will continue to haunt organizations that have yet to evolve their policies and procedures – from encrypting data to regularly changing passwords – there are many threats waiting in the wings, according to Kroll, which lists some things to think about in 2013.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 28, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Kroll Advisory Solutions Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Payers Electronic Health Records Vendors Health Information Exchange (HIE) Privacy and Security Source Type: news
Clot management device market growing
The U.S. market for clot management devices is on the rise, a mix of relatively mature and dynamic, fast-growing segments, according to a new report from Millennium Research Group (MRG).
While the device market's average annual growth through 2017 will be 4.1 percent, the study shows, several more dynamic segments, such as endovascular treatments for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and acute ischemic stroke (AIS) show much greater growth potential.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 28, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only catheter Millennium Research Group Vendors Mobile/Wireless Quality and Safety Source Type: news
