“To make sure patients are safe, hospitals have to put their CPOE systems to the test, warns healthcare industry watchdog The Leapfrog Group in a report released Wednesday. Leapfrog called on the federal government to make testing mandatory.
The Leapfrog Group, an employer-backed health advocacy organization calls on federal officials to act quickly by building oversight [...]“The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has developed a fully auditable set of guidelines and actions for clinicians within its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system.
The trust has been working with Cerner and the BMJ Evidence Centre to pilot a standardised checklist of actions to help clinicians make the best decisions for patients with gastro-intestinal [...]Objectives
This study aims to explore the issues and challenges involved in designing and organizing pilot implementations of health information systems (HIS). Pilot implementations are a widely used approach for identifying design flaws and implementation issues before full-scale deployment of new HIS. However, it is not uncommon for pilot implementations to fail in the sense that [...]“The Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 (CCHE) has successfully gone live with state-of-the-art healthcare information technology (HIT) solutions from Cerner Corporation. More than 700 clinicians and staff are using Cerner Millennium® solutions to provide superior care and improve patient safety for cancer patients at Egypt’s leading pediatric cancer hospital. The Cerner® electronic health record (EHR) [...]“A survey of 120 hospital CIOs finds that only half believe their organization will meet the first set of electronic health records meaningful use criteria in time to get incentive payments in 2011, and a full 80 percent worry about being able to meet expanded criteria in 2015.
Later stage criteria that is worrisome includes using [...]“Few will argue against the benefits of an integrated Electronic Medical Records (EMR) System, which has gained popularity and momentum in recent years. White House advocates have mandated the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to encourage physicians to deploy the technology. Despite what appears to be strong support in the community for [...]“The combination vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox (MMRV) is associated with double the risk of febrile seizures for 1- to 2-year-old children compared with same-day administration of the separate vaccine for MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and the varicella (V) vaccine for chicken pox, according to a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research study appearing [...]“Tufts Medical Center physicians are conducting live medical consultations with patients in earthquake-ravaged areas in Haiti from their facilities in Massachusetts.
Tufts clinicians on the ground in Haiti, together with Tufts University School of Medicine students there, consult on demand and in real time with Boston-based Tufts Medical Center specialists to augment treatment for Haitian patients [...]“More than 20,000 Summary Care Records have been viewed out-of-hours via the integrated solution provided by software supplier Adastra.
The company said the figures covered viewings at the three early adopter sites in Bolton, Bury and Medway, where SCRs are available for the majority of the population.”
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care, 29 June 2010
“As the health sector rushes to catch up with other industries in use of electronic communications with their clients / patients, the choice of electronic communication medium needs to be carefully considered. While many people have been encouraging physicians to communicate with patients via e-mail, we should be careful to not favour one form of [...]“Back in the times when EHRs were just EMRs, they had a very simple and humble mission.
The software was supposed to help providers of health care services better manage their business. EMRs were supposed to help physicians adhere to CMS documentation rules, automate patient flow management and get rid of all the mountains of paper [...]“In thinking about health IT, NASA might be the last federal agency that comes to mind. That’s what makes a seven-year joint venture between the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles such an unlikely partnership.
Yet the two have an ongoing common need: to easily share and analyze massive amounts of data [...]“A year and a half after the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated billions of dollars to help hospitals and doctors purchase equipment to computerize patient medical records, even the most sophisticated hospitals in the country are struggling to qualify for the payments. Eight in 10 hospital chief information officers (CIOs) surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP [...]“President Obama has long trumpeted the benefits of more quickly adopting electronic health records, and he and his administration like to talk about such benefits of health information technology and claim they will reduce health care costs and improve medical outcomes.
While it’s true that the advantages of digital records can be substantial, these electronic health [...]“A very good eZine on all things mobile health, is mobihealthnews. Brian and his partner Joe have done an excellent job of following many of the developing trends in this sector and occasionally, will have a guest author a column. On Friday, one of the co-founders of the iPhone app, iTriage, Peter [...]“Despite their many proposed benefits, electronic health record systems could put healthcare providers at significant risk for lawsuits due to software, hardware and user errors, according to a new study in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
The design of the current electronic health record (EHR) systems and the legislation governing them do not adequately protect against [...]“Section 3012 of the HITECH act establishes Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers (REC) that will offer technical assistance, guidance and information on best practices to support and accelerate health care providers’ efforts to become meaningful users of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Each REC shall aim to provide assistance and education to all providers in [...]“As the push to implement new health information technology (HIT) among healthcare providers continues, many small physician practices offering services to Medicaid patients have shown a reluctance to adopt HIT, such as electronic health records (EHRs).
If these medical practices continue to resist implementing modern HIT systems, the situation threatens to widen healthcare disparities in the [...]“Het ministerie van VWS geeft weinig prijs over de beveiliging van het landelijke elektronische patiëntendossier. Uit een verzoek in het kader van de Wet openbaarheid van bestuur (Wob) van Medisch Contact en Brenno de Winter, journalist en expert op het gebied van de Wob, blijkt dat de beveiliging deels geheim wordt gehouden en zich deels [...]“Combined with a modern mobile phone, NETRA, a device from MIT’s Media Lab allows eye glass prescriptions to be produced simply , cheaply and quickly in any location. Clinical trials are due to begin shortly.”
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Telecare Aware, 28 June 2010
“Patients battling a chronic breathing condition are piloting new technology to allow them to manage their health from the comfort of home.
Community matrons at NHS Central Lancashire have introduced a remote patient care management tool to help poorly patients in Preston to monitor their health at home and remain independent.”
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Lancashire Evening Post, 28 June 2010
(via [...]“A consortium of leading international bodies and health organisations has called for the accelerated use of mobile health ICT to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and improve health in the developing world.
The mHealth Alliance has called for financial and organisational support for wireless technology to expand the use of proven maternal and newborn technologies.”
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Sarah Bruce, [...]“Over the past 16 years, Taiwan has been creating a health management system that enables its 23 million citizens to carry a so-called ‘IC Card’ medical record everywhere they go. This Integrated Circuit card contains information about the last six medical visits, prescriptions, allergies, organ donation willingness and vaccinations.
It might be said that this is [...]“Recently, we suggested that innovative business models can drive vendors to produce breakthroughs in EMR usability. We subsequently argued that market forces are more efficient than regulation as a means to assure rapid dissemination of usable EMRs. If the market is to work its magic in this regard, physicians need simple ways to compare EMRs [...]
While developing our new FinWEB Customer Online Targeting product, I had a lot of interactions with SAS support (especially SAS Switzerland). Although helpful, most answers were only relevant when using SAS in what I call “standard” mode. For example, when I asked how I could add a macro variable as input parameter to some node [...]