“The Department of Veterans Affairs has spent proportionally more than the private sector on health IT and has achieved higher levels of IT adoption and quality of care as a result.
Those were the key conclusions reached in a comparative study undertaken by researchers from the Center for Information Technology Leadership and published in the April [...]“The next phase of federal incentives for electronic health record (EHR) adoption could require providers to be able to transmit records into patients’ accounts in real-time and to accept transmissions of data from home monitoring equipment, according to proposals considered by a federal advisory group.
The Health IT Standards Committee’s privacy and security standards workgroup on [...]“As baby boomers age and the incidence rates of chronic diseases grow, the impetus to implement remote monitoring services to save overhead costs and time will continue to grow.
Studies like the CONNECT trial demonstrate that clinical care can be improved with the use of remote monitoring. In fact, results reflected a cost savings of $1,650 [...]“Three things initially attract people to web-based EMRs over client-server EMRs: they are easier to deploy and upgrade, demand less IT support, and require less hardware. While it is true that web-based deployment and upgrades are easier, client-server technology actually delivers far superior benefits and long-term cost savings on the second two criteria.”
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Evan Steele, EMR [...]“I’ve sounded the warning bells about online doctors before. “Ask a doctor” websites that — for $30 or $50 will let you “chat’ with them online, then they will… what….? They will tell you that you need a certain test or… ? Bottom line — they don’t have any sort of ability [...]“Consultants love to put out lists and commentary related to something in the news, in hopes that some reporter will pick up on their opinions and include them in news stories. Mission accomplished, Leslie Michelson.
Michelson, chairman and CEO of Los Angeles-based Private Health Management, mentions how the U.S. healthcare sector soon will have to find [...]“The role of technology in the NHS will become more decentralised at the same time as patients become more empowered and clinical staff become more influential.
BCS video debates inform IT professionals about current key trends and provide informed opinions of leaders in any given field. The video panel comprises Peter Bath, Reader in Health Informatics [...]“Breathtaking advances in smartphone capabilities are changing the ways we work and live. In their latest forms, phones such as the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Symbian, and Palm are beginning to rival, and in several areas (think GPS, camera and video) exceed the capabilities of laptops and desktops.
Increasingly, we email, keep contacts, track tasks [...]“The New England Journal of Medicine has conducted a sort of time-and-motion study on a small family practice in Philadelphia (above), showing how much of an internist’s work day is spent on activities that do not generate income.
Each physician at Greenhouse Internists saw 18 patients a day, at $70 per visit. But they also made [...]“If Fort Detrick researchers are successful, one of the most important health care tools for soldiers could be their cell phones.
On Tuesday, Col. Ron Poropatich, deputy director for the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, presented a portfolio of ongoing research projects involving cell phones to the Rotary Club of Carroll Creek.”
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Megan Eckstein, News-Post Staff, [...]“One of the better known PHR (personal health records) company is now announcing their data connection with an EHR system Sevocity. We are seeing more of this type of aggregation with data between PHRS and EHRS and of course this is the key to better patient records and care. They also provide a [...]Background:
The Internet holds promise for the delivery of evidence-based weight loss treatment to underserved populations. However, most studies do not reflect the more naturalistic and common ad libitum, or freely at will, use of the Internet. Randomized clinical trials, for example, typically include at least some direct contact with [...]“The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics (ICMCC) intents to combine in this event ontology-driven health information system design for advanced interoperability with the paradigm change towards pervasive person-centric care including prevention, home care and wellness, together forming adaptive distributed health information systems solutions.
As global and internationally well acknowledged initiative (with liaisons to WHO, [...]“Widespread use of personal health records, which individuals control, could help ensure privacy and confidentiality of medical data, a top official at the Veterans Affairs Department said on Wednesday.
Paul Tibbits, VA’s deputy chief information officer for strategy, architecture and design, said health care providers should consider personal health records, which patients have access to and [...]“Electronic medical records, long-touted as a key to improving patient care and reducing medical errors, are getting a boost through federal stimulus money that, along with federal and state legislation, can reshape the health care industry.
Still, talk to people in health care and it is clear that there are myriad issues that need to be [...]“If the adoption of telemedicine at hospitals and other medical facilities is to take flight, service providers, technology vendors, and healthcare payers and providers must collaborate to build a cohesive strategy that involves a mature reimbursement model.
These are the finding of a soon-to-be-released IDC report, the first in a series four, entitled: Describing the Telemedicine [...]“The FDA asserts its authority to regulate medical software as a “device” following some bad patient care outcomes in the radiation therapy, radiology, and other arenas. Observers question whether it is well-equipped to do so, and other agencies regulating and promoting electronic health records (EHRs) are concerned that the FDA could slow down development of [...]“Getting clinicians and other end users involved in the selection, implementation and training of an EMR is a key component to successful provider adoption, but Oroville Hospital in northern California has taken clinician participation to a new level.
Oroville Hospital decided to download the software developed by the Veterans Affairs for its VistA EMR. The [...]“Forget flying cars, cities crisscrossed with moving sidewalks, and unisex body suits made of silver lame. Instead, get ready for an explosion in smart medical devices, infection-fighting nanotechnology, virtual biopsies and colonoscopies, bionic organs, and operating rooms that could serve as a backdrop for a science fiction movie. These and other medical breakthroughs are more [...]“Several New England executives are active in regional and national initiatives to advance health information technology and electronic medical records. One is Dr. John D. Halamka, who serves as chief information officer of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is CEO of MA-SHARE, chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network [...]“The Department of Veterans Affairs’ long-term investment in healthcare information technology paid off at a rate of more than $500 million in net annual benefits from 2001 to 2007, researchers said.
That added up to more than $3 billion in benefits for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) during the study period, after an initial billion-dollar [...]“About $640 million has been made available, courtesy of the government’s stimulus package, to establish regional extension centers intended to help small practices adopt and become meaningful users of health information technology.
But those centers might be too understaffed and underfunded to provide the help physicians need, according to a study in the April Health Affairs.”
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Pamela [...]“In Part I of this series, we introduced the problem of racial disparities in the US health system, and provided examples in which electronic health records (EHRs) improved care for medical conditions that disproportionately impact blacks and Hispanics. Let’s move-on to discuss how Meaningful Use provisions can reduce racial disparities. We’ll also review a study [...]“The Ministry of Health and Sports in France has officially named Carestream Health as an approved host for personal health data and the first medical imaging company to receive accreditation.
The Carestream Health Managed Service portfolio fully complies with the Health Data Security and Confidentiality Reference Table published by the newly created Agency for Shared Information [...]
I was in Zürich (Switzerland) last Thursday to attend the SAS Praxis Update für Marketiers (website in German). It was a very interesting afternoon where I had the opportunity to meet SAS Switzerland team as well as other people from Accenture and Deutschland Card. I also had a bit of time to discuss with Norman [...]