Commentary
How do you convince the public that EMRs are safe?
In writing a story about EMR interoperability between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense, I came across an article in the Virginian-Pilot from Norfolk, Va., that partly got my blood boiling and partly shined more light on a serious image problem EMRs continue to have. Actually, it wasn't the article that fired me up as much as it was the comments that followed. Read more...
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VA preparing to re-start health data exchange with DoD
The Department of Veterans Affairs may have already made a decision to restart health data exchange with the Department of Defense, slightly more than a week after cutting off access to Military... Read more...
Report: Chart abstraction eases transition from paper to EHR
Chart abstraction can help lessen the inevitable productivity slow-down associated with an EHR project and shorten the transition period between paper and electronic records, according to an... Read more...
ONC corrects EMR certification proposal
The long-awaited and widely reported release of the proposed rule to establish a federally supervised EMR certification program last week apparently was just a dress rehearsal. The Office of the... Read more...
HIMSS10: ONC's Hunt touts regional extension centers
Need help selecting and implementing an EMR? "Find your regional extension center," Dr. David Hunt, chief medical officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology,... Read more...
Kaiser completes systemwide EMR rollout
After 10 years and $4 billion, Kaiser Permanente has completed the largest private-sector EMR rollout in the world, as three hospitals in Northern California recently went online with bar-coded... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Two-factor authentication
Perhaps the biggest unanswered question of the national push toward EMRs is whether systems will adequately protect the privacy of patient information. The latest to doubt the security of EMRs is... Read more...
Also Noted
> CMS says that the 1988 Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments law does not prohibit labs from electronically exchanging test results. Article
> England's National Programme for Health IT may scale back its electronic patient record by turning over more of the contract to vendor Computer Sciences Corp., but only if CSC meets a critical implementation deadline this month. Article
> Medsphere Systems has introduced its "Stimulus ROI Calculator," a tool that helps healthcare organizations navigate the complicated formula for determining EMR stimulus payments to hospitals. Press release
> The Indiana Network for Patient Care is expanding HIE services into the southwestern part of the state and across the Illinois state line. Article
And Finally... Here's a more responsible way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Article
