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• EMR Stimulus Money is All or Nothing

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  The wonderful John Chilmark posted a short message he heard from a Keynote address by John Halamka at the PHAT conference put on by the Harvard School of Public Health. Here’s the message: there will be no partial reimbursement for meeting just part of meaningful use . Its all or nothing folks. I think we ...
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• Current security standards too complex, expert says

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “A federal health information technology advisory panel heard a whole day of testimony on the state of data security, and, not surprisingly, the testimony reflected the findings in a recent spate of public reports: Data security breaches are on the rise and healthcare organizations are ill-prepared to deal with ...
  12 hours ago

• Electronic health records could be a deadly target during a cyberwar

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “Most health officials worry about hackers stealing sensitive information such as an AIDS diagnosis from someone’s electronic medical record, but a technology manager for a health care system in the Pacific Northwest said it’s just as likely the digital files could be a target of terrorists or a nation state ...
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• Three Denver Area Health Care Organizations Link Patient Electronic Health Records to Improve Care and Safety

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “Three of the largest Front Range health care organizations are taking an unprecedented leap forward in health care reform by improving care for more than a million Coloradans with an interconnected electronic patient record exchange system.The Children’s Hospital, Kaiser Permanente Colorado and Exempla Healthcare ...
  13 hours ago

• Update: MedLink to Offer MedLink EHR as a Software as a Service (SaaS)

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “MedLink International, Inc. announced today that it will be providing the option of its MedLink TotalOffice EHR as a Software as a Service (SaaS) starting next month. The SaaS model will further assist providers to qualify for “meaningful use” by offering an affordable EHR framework to meet federal and state ...
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• PHAT: Presentations

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  Below you find links to the PHAT presentations at Harvard University, including those by Ashish Jha. Why Health IT and Why Now? Ashish Jha [November 16, 2009, 9:40 am]Slide Deck for PHAT 2009 Introduction Connecting Patients, Providers, and Payers, John Halamka [November 16, 2009, 10:00 am]Slide Deck for PHAT 2009 ...
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• PHAT: Mash-Up on Healthcare IT

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “On Monday, I participated in the Harvard School of Public Health event, Public Health and Technology (PHAT) which brought together a diverse views of healthcare, reform and the role that IT will play. The morning session focused on the status quo so to speak addressing the challenges of HIT in the clinical setting ...
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• Simple Healthcare Interop for Easy Applications

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 110
  After reading Health 2.0: Take a Lesson From the Web Peter Basch asked me “exactly what a Provider Health Internet looks like – [and what are] the implications of using it vs. a RHIO / NHIN?” The question has special piquancy because users of EHRs will need to show certain kinds of interoperability to meet ...
  17 hours ago

• Study Casts Doubt on I.T. Benefits

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “A new study of cost data for 4,000 hospitals contends there is no evidence that computerization has lowered costs or streamlined administration. The study, published Nov. 20 and based on data from 2003 to 2007, also claims there is no strong evidence that increased computerization leads to increased ...
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• Electronic Medical Records Don’t Save Money, Says Study

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “Researchers affiliated with Harvard institutions are reporting a variation on the theme “the emperor has no clothes” regarding benefits from health information technology, the second such report to become public this week.The latest study, published today in The American Journal of Medicine, says that despite ...
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• Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  BACKGROUND:Many believe that computerization will improve health care quality, reduce costs, and increase administrative efficiency. However, no previous studies have examined computerization’s cost and quality impacts at a diverse national sample of hospitals.METHODS:We linked data from an annual survey of ...
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• Study Shows Little Benefit from EMR in Hospitals

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “People have been buzzing over a recent New York Times article (requires login, but you can get a login and password here) which discusses a Harvard study showing little benefit seen so far in Electronic Patient Records. The study is interesting and worthy of consideration. I think this part of the Times article ...
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• Harvard Study Gets it Wrong on EHRs and Quality

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “America’s hospitals are a triumph of modernity, stocked as they are with PET scanners, ECMO machines, and ICUs bedecked in eye-popping gadgetry.They are also the most complex organizations ever created by man. The seemingly simple process of delivering a drug from the pharmacy to the bedside for example, ...
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• Who should Own a Patient’s Health Data, Where should they be Stored, and How should they be Exchanged?

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “A thought-provoking conversation on LinkedIn (see this link) examines whether the patient data stored in the national health information network (NHIN) will, within the next five years, likely be “owned” by major firms such as Oracle, Google, and Microsoft.While most (though not all) commenters replied NO, the ...
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• Chrome OS Electronic Medical Record Anyone?

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “The tech world is buzzing about Google’s new Operating System (OS) called Chrome. You can read the full writeup from Google’s Chrome OS announcement on Techcrunch or the official announcement on the Official Google blog. Basically, Google has created an operating system for a netbook (or at least netbook like) ...
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• Remote Monitoring Yields Healthier Patients

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “As more healthcare providers deploy electronic medical records, they’re also looking to tie them into remote monitoring systems used by homebound, chronically ill patients. Now faster access to information generated via remote monitoring devices is reducing medical complications and hospitalizations, and ...
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• Elektronische Gesundheitskarte: Moratorium oder Mors Ultima?

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “Das vom Gesundheitsministerium im Einvernehmen mit den Spitzenverbänden der Krankenkassen und Kassenärzte ausgehandelte unbefristete Moratorium dominierte die Gesprächsrunden auf der Medizinmesse Medica in Düsseldorf. Wie geht es weiter mit der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK)?Moratorium, so belehrt uns ...
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• Predicted progress of EMR adoption through 2013

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “The adoption of EMR systems will increase during the next three years, says Dennis Schmuland, MD, Microsoft’s national director of health and life sciences, U.S. health plan industry.Dr. Schmuland, however, sees the current focus on the adoption of EMRs and health information exchanges as only one step toward ...
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• Study Shows Little Benefit from EMR in Hospitals

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  People have been buzzing over a recent New York Times article (requires login, but you can get a login and password here ) which discusses a Harvard study showing little benefit seen so far in Electronic Patient Records. The study is interesting and worthy of consideration. I think this part of the Times article ...
  1 day ago

• Harvard Study Gets it Wrong on EHRs and Quality

  
  The Health Care Blog — Authority: 593
  By GLENN LAFFEL MD, PhD America’s hospitals are a triumph of modernity, stocked as they are with PET scanners, ECMO machines, and ICUs bedecked in eye-popping gadgetry. They are also the most complex organizations ever created by man. The seemingly...
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