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Defining and Evaluating Electronic Medical Record Data Quality within [...]“The Mississauga Halton LHIN has invested over $200,000 to hire three nurses who will provide mental health and addiction care and support using video conferencing equipment.
Two telemedicine nurses have already been brought on board and officials are in the process of hiring a third.”
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Chris Clay, Mississauga.com, 21 July 2012
“Michael Snyder is right that we need to have tens of thousands and ultimate millions of data points to be able to really effectively treat the human body. When I start to think about this, it actually makes me proud that the medical profession can treat a patient as well as it does with such [...]“This National eHealth Strategy Toolkit reflects the growing impact that eHealth is bringing to the delivery of health care around the world today, and how it is making health systems more efficient and more responsive to people’s needs and expectations.
The Toolkit provides a framework and method for the development of a national eHealth vision, action [...]“The health care industry struggles to manage a “data deluge” as doctors try to make sense of electronic health records and collect data for financial and risk management, according to an Oracle report.
IT managers aren’t prepared to handle the deluge of data in health care, Oracle revealed in its new report, “From Overload to Impact: [...]“A large part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act is aimed at making patients’ health records more accessible between multiple physicians, as well as between doctors and their patients. Part of this initiative has been to implement the use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. These systems allow easy [...]Data collected by primary care providers in electronic medical record (EMR) systems can be used to support a variety of actions including provision of day-to-day care, decision support, practice reflection, research and public health surveillance. The extent to which EMR data can be relied on to support such actions is dependent on the quality of [...]“A majority of U.S. physicians have now adopted an electronic health record system as part of their routine practice, a new national survey reveals.
The finding is based on responses provided by nearly 3,200 doctors across the country who completed a mail-in survey in 2011.”
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HealthDay, 17 July 2012
“New tools developed by the National Cancer Institute will allow any researcher to compare data from large collections of genomic information against thousands of drugs to find the most effective treatments for cancer, according to a study published at Cancer Research.
The software, called CellMiner, was built for use with NCI-60, the institute’s massive collection of [...]“As the Meaningful Use Work Group of the Health IT Policy Committee prepares its recommendations for Meaningful Use Stage 3, its members should take a long hard look at the difference between the potential and the reality of health IT. If they ask for too much, many providers will be unable to keep up, and [...]Background
Since 2007, New York City’s primary care information project has assisted over 3000 providers to adopt and use a prevention-oriented electronic health record (EHR). Participating practices were taught to re-adjust their workflows to use the EHR built-in population health monitoring tools, including automated quality measures, patient registries and a clinical decision support system. Practices received [...]“Patients who use interactive online personal health records (PHRs) are more likely to stay up to date with their screenings for cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, and immunizations as well as a host of other preventative medical tests. That’s the conclusion of a recent Virginia Commonwealth University study.
Published in the July/August issue of the Annals of [...]