Download: Technology Priorities for 2012
Updated: 2012-08-30 15:15:20
As budgets start to recover, IT professionals are taking a closer look at new technologies. See which projects are topping the list for this year.
EHR Interoperability Key For Meaningful Use Stage 2
Updated: 2012-08-28 17:28:06
“Interoperability between different electronic health record (EHR) systems is one of the most important requirements that hospitals and physicians must meet as they prepare their systems for attestation in Meaningful Use Stage 2, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for health information technology, said Friday.
Sharing his assessment of the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule, [...]Public Fear Of Medical Data Theft Slows Acceptance Of Electronic Health Records
Updated: 2012-08-28 17:22:50“Worries about the security of personal information continue to blunt public acceptance of electronic health record (EHR) systems now used by more than half of the nation’s office-based physicians, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for Xerox. Sixty-three percent of Americans fear that a computer hacker will steal their personal data, down just [...]Digital medical records vulnerable to abuse
Updated: 2012-08-27 15:12:00“One is that “the benefit [of electronic health records] is obvious.” Actually it is anything but obvious. The Canadian Medical Association Journal said as much in its September 2011 article “Centralized, nationwide electronic health records schemes under assault.”
The gist of this article is that experience in the U.K. and elsewhere is that these large centralized [...]Bioinformatics evolution continues
Updated: 2012-08-21 11:39:54“In various shapes and forms, the link between biology, clinical science and technology is advancing at a steady pace.
Look up the term “bioinformatics” and the definition will most likely be a convoluted series of references to algorithms, databases, artificial intelligence, computation theory, discrete mathematics, signal processing, statistics and a half-dozen other terms for complicated concepts. [...]The Freetext Matching Algorithm: a computer program to extract diagnoses and causes of death from unstructured text in electronic health records
Updated: 2012-08-21 11:19:47BACKGROUND:
Electronic health records are invaluable for medical research, but much information is stored as free text rather than in a coded form. For example, in the UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD), causes of death and test results are sometimes recorded only in free text. Free text can be difficult to use for research if [...]‘Stealth’ alerts increase monitoring of patients on warfarin
Updated: 2012-08-20 17:28:01““Alert fatigue” diminishes the effectiveness of EHRs that warn physicians when they have prescribed a medication that interferes with another drug such as warfarin. Sending alerts to a patient management team rather than the prescribing physician increased the percentage of patients who were subsequently monitored, according to one study, suggesting that a “stealth” alert approach [...]“Stealth” Alerts to Improve Warfarin Monitoring When Initiating Interacting Medications
Updated: 2012-08-20 17:19:50BACKGROUND
As electronic health records (EHRs) become widely adopted, alerts and reminders can improve medication safety, but excessive alerts may irritate or overwhelm clinicians, thereby reducing their effectiveness. We developed a novel “stealth” alert in an EHR to improve anticoagulation monitoring for patients prescribed a medication that could interact with warfarin. Instead of alerting the [...]