Health IT

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• New Grants For Health IT Worker Training

  
  Tech Daily Dose — Authority: 607
  Advertisement The nations health information technology coordinator announced Tuesday that his office will provide $80 million in grants to help in training skilled health information technology professionals who can work with hospitals, doctors and other providers in adopting health information technology. ...
  19 hours ago

• Innovation and Learning at Kaiser Permanente – Interview With Chris McCarthy – Revised

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  This week I had the chance to speak with Chris McCarthy, Innovation Learning Network Director and Innovation Specialist at Kaiser Permanentes Innovation Consultancy. I really enjoyed the conversation and learned quite a bit about what is happening today with bringing the ever changing world of innovation into ...
  21 hours ago

• Access To Electronic Health Records Data Safeguarded By Novel K-Anonymity Algorithm

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 144
    Access To Electronic Health Records Data Safeguarded By Novel K-Anonymity Algorithm
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• National Survey Of US Hospitals Shows Information Technology Has Yielded Neither Administrative Efficiencies Nor Cost Savings

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 144
    National Survey Of US Hospitals Shows Information Technology Has Yielded Neither Administrative Efficiencies Nor Cost Savings
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• Electronic Claims Submission in the US Is Lagging Too – 90% of Reimbursements Still Paper Checks

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  These are some pretty high numbers here at 90% of all medical claims still being cut on paper, not quite as bad as EHR adoption, but still with the technology do go electronic and the time it saves, well, we are back to the old word here called “change”.   If you have ever done any medical billing, and I ...
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• Survey on Surgeons Making Errors – Are Locum Tenens, Medical Migrants A Contributing Factor?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  There are a lot of surgeons doing this where they travel from one hospital to another, so get your records on a PHR so you are ready for this in case it happens to you.  They of course do their best but when they travel from one location to another and have to rely on paper records that they can’t preview and ...
  1 day ago

• MyPHR – Website that Explains and Answers Questions and Why You Need One Today and Tomorrow

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  I get into conversations quite frequently about this and it is amazing that I still walk into doctors offices, hospitals and chat with individuals and they have never heard of a PHR, personal health record.  One time I was trying to explain what it was to staff members and the physician thought I was having ...
  1 day ago

• Initial meaningful use standards to be simple, as deadline is in sight

  
  News — Authority: 128
  The bad news is, everyones a little antsy while waiting for final rules on "meaningful use" of EMRs. The good news is, HHS seems to be making progress toward defining the term that will determine who qualifies for federal stimulus funding for health IT. Plus, it looks like federal officials are listening to what the ...
  1 day ago

• New Study Finds Health Disparities Exist with EHR Adoption

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 132
  According to a recent study published by Health Affairs, hospitals in which racial and ethnic disparities exist are less likely than other hospitals to have adopted electronic health records (EHRs). Researchers surveyed 2,368 hospitals about their use of electronic systems for 24 functions. The hospitals that served ...
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• Health IT pros warn of network vulnerabilities during cyberwar

  
  News — Authority: 128
  Fans of doomsday scenarios, gather round. It may not be hackers that present the greatest threat to EHR databases, but terrorist groups or rogue regimes, a hospital IT director told federal officials last week. Testifying Friday before the federal Health IT Standards Committee, Chad Skidmore, director of network ...
  1 day ago

• Today’s Health Content Headlines

  
  Health Content Advisors — Authority: 107
  Please scroll down if the story you are looking for is not the first headline.  New stories are added throughout the day and I may have provided a link to the most current story that is now lower down on the page.  Follow me on Twitter @janicemccallum.
  2 days ago

• Dillon & Paten Locke – Studies In Hunger / promo

  
  GRANDGOOD — Authority: 575
  Mmmm food. Episode 3 of DillonAteThat.com TV -this one is conveniently enough a promo for my soon to be released album with Paten Locke, “Studies in Hunger” Available 12/8/09 on Domination Recordings. Buen Provecho! Bonus: “ Studies in Hunger Megamix ” Super Bonus: Part 4 of Dillon’s excursion to ...
  2 days ago

• Kaiser Permanente and Exempla Healthcare in Boulder EHRs Connected

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  You can read how they are doing it, this goes back to the announcement in October 2008 on the blog.  BD  Exempla Healthcare Hospitals to interface with the Kaiser ambulatory EMR - Colorado “Three hospitals in the system preparing to integrate and connect with Kaiser facilities, as they will more than ...
  2 days ago

• On eBay, the Fax and Healthcare Interop

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 113
  This is a reply to Shane Taylor’s interesting comment on my Simple Healthcare Interop for Easy Applications post. I am using his comment as an opportunity to flog some important notions. Notion 1: You Can’t Step on Someone’s Toes with a Thoughtful Blog Comment Shane expressed a concern that his ...
  2 days ago

• VA Looking for Security Solutions with Medical Devices With Vista and Bandwidth

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  Security is on everyone’s mind today and the VA is busy working on their solutions.  They have used some virtualization methods and as the article mentions the system is operating near capacity with Vista.  Some devices are causing interruptions with malware and security patches, so it sound like have have some ...
  2 days ago

• Headline Commentary Nov 9-22

  
  Health Content Advisors — Authority: 107
  »  Linda Peitzman, CMO of Wolters Kluwer Health, on Practicing EBM with Order Sets Very good article by Linda Peitzman, MD, CMO (Medical) of Wolters Kluwer Health on benefits of order sets. Article provides some detail on how to implement order sets to ensure everyone receives latest most current version. Note, ...
  2 days ago

• Simple Healthcare Interop for Easy Applications

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 113
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• How to choose the right electronic health record (EHR) consultant

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 586
  "> "> Originally published in HCPLive.com by Jonathan Bertman, MD You may have seen advertisements, or may already have been contacted by people who’ve promised to help you figure it all out so you can get your share of the stimulus money. Be wary. The truth is that the Obama administration is still ...
  5 days ago

• Medicare Extends Personal Health Record Pilot Program – Magpie Healthcare Thrives, Where’s the Training and Education?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  I talk about this quite a bit here, especially since I am actively involved and have helped my own 85 year old mother with putting her records into a PHR.  I also was skeptical about the success when initially announced, again going back to lack of education and training.  PHRs are not just something you put out ...
  5 days ago

• Computer Systems with Cognitive Powers: A Close Reality

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 132
  John: “Hey Bill, I got this new computer, and it has 4 GB RAM and HD!”Bill: “Well John, I can top that. I just got one with an IQ of 130!”Instead of talking about a computer’s gigabytes, we might soon move to discussions about a computing system’s IQ. IBM researchers are making strides in developing [...]
  5 days ago

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