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• Federated Identity for Electronic Medical Records

  
  Discovering Identity — Authority: 119
  Many thanks to my good friend Jonathan Gershater for sending me the link to another excellent post about Identity and Healthcare.  I particularly like his illustration of using Federated Identity to facilitate trusted exchange of medical records between different medical service providers.  A user of ...
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• Identity Enables NHIN or Health Internet

  
  Discovering Identity — Authority: 119
  Jonathan Gershater recently published an interesting blog post exploring the conceptual differences between the National Health Information Network (NHIN) infrastructure, “a collection of standards, protocols, legal agreements, specifications, and services that enables the secure exchange of health information ...
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• Benefits from EMR Come from Interoperability

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “Interoperability is one of those benefits that we won’t see right away. In fact, we’ll see little benefit from them until we hit a critical mass of EMR implementations that it’s almost futile to share information between EMR software. Kaiser and the VA are always held up as examples of successful EMR ...
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• Does Canada have Federated EMR Paralysis?

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “Will geographic challenges and the decentralized nature of Canadian provinces and territories ultimately be the undoing of any attempts towards a national EMR strategy? At a time that hard decisions need to be made regarding a national approach to EMR adoption and use, there has never been a greater need for ...
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• Switching to EMR requires knowledge, flexibility

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “Can being an ‘early adopter’ save your hospital millions of dollars? We both know the answer depends on what you’re adopting. Suppose we are discussing the adoption of an idea. Can that be analogous to not adopting another idea? I think it can. Allow me to explain. Many providers are in the process of making ...
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• Two providers drive patient compliance with HIT

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “Aurora Health, a Milwaukee-based healthcare system, and Elmhurst, Ill.-based Elmhurst Clinic have implemented a new automated messaging system to help patients. The messaging system, developed by Phytel, a Dallas-based physician-led provider of health IT solutions, is being used at Aurora Health and Elmhurst to ...
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• 2010 will be the year of health record implementation

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “In their excellent review of 2009 trends at The Health Care Blog, David Kibbe (below) and Brian Klepper (right) note that key decisions on Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were made this year, making 2010 a big year for implementation. Both are modest regarding their own roles in this. But they have been key ...
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• Benefits from EMR Come from Interoperability

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  “Looking for savings in hospitals that use EMRs is short-sighted. The real payday for use of EMRs will come with interoperability. Measurable savings will be realized as middleware is installed that will allow for the electronic transmission and translation of patient records across different proprietary systems ...
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• Effects of cardiac rehabilitation referral strategies on referral and enrollment rates

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  Despite recommendations in clinical practice guidelines, evidence suggests that utilization of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) following indicated cardiac events is low. Referral strategies, such as automatic referral, have been advocated to improve CR utilization. In this Review, we evaluate the effects of referral ...
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• HHS To Award $235M To Boost Local Models for EHR Adoption

  
  InterOpNurse — Authority: 111
  On Wednesday, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the launch of a  $235 million initiative to support community-based models for electronic health record adoption,  Federal Computer Week   reports (Lipowicz,  Federal Computer Week , 12/2). Of the funds, HHS will award about $220 million ...
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• Improving follow-up of abnormal cancer screens using electronic health records: trust but verify test result communication

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  Background Early detection of colorectal cancer through timely follow-up of positive Fecal Occult Blood Tests (FOBTs) remains a challenge. In our previous work, we found 40% of positive FOBT results eligible for colonoscopy had no documented response by a treating clinician at two weeks despite procedures for ...
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• Incorporating patient safety functionality in EHRs

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “A recent study found that physicians who have EHRs are more likely to report adverse drug events than those who don’t have computerized patient records. Pharmaceutical company Pfizer sponsored the study, which was administered by independent market research firm Ipsos, to determine how it can improve patient ...
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• (MDRX) Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Launches New Products

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 459
  Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc. ( MDRX ) recently launched two new products ? Allscripts Professional EHR 9.0 and Allscripts Remote for BlackBerry smartphones. Allscripts Professional EHR 9.0 is a premier Electronic Health Record (EHR) system designed for small- and medium-sized physician groups. ...
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• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/9/2009+

  
  OakLeaf Systems — Authority: 487
  Windows Azure, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.   Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database ...
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• NQF issues quality data standards for electronic records

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “The National Quality Forum has published a standard set of clinical data elements to measure quality performance that electronic health records should be able to capture across all care settings. It will make it easier to compare healthcare providers’ reports on their performance in quality measures, said Dr. ...
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• An Award-winning combo: EMRs and HIEs

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “AtlantiCare (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) and Heartland Health (St. Joseph, Mo.) were awarded the 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards for their organizational innovation and performance excellence. Not surprisingly, one of the components of both of their successful programs is healthcare IT. Also not ...
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• Lost in Translation: Electronic Records and Health ReformLost in Translation: Electronic Records and Health Reform

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “A typical day at work will invariably find me hunched over a piece of paper, staring at a jumble of illegible loops and lines, trying to figure out what on earth five loops and a squiggle is supposed to convey to the reader. No, I am not a handwriting analyst, a historian of ancient writing, or a translator of ...
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• Meaningful Use – A Look at Required Data Standards

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act provides reimbursements to physicians who purchase and implement an Electronic Health Record (EHR). In order to participate in the program, physicians and EHR vendors must meet a set of requirements. You may have heard the term ...
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• Card-Based PHR Introduced

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “MEMI Tech LLC in Louisville, Ky., has introduced a credit card-sized portable personal health record that plugs into any USB port on a computer using the Windows operating system. The 911 Medical ID card includes a push-down USB tab. When inserted into a computer, a template opens to enable the user to enter ...
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• Military to test lifetime EHR in six local communities

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “The Department of Veteran Affairs is seeking community coordinators to head up as many as six localized health information exchange projects designed to advance the VA and Department of Defense joint virtual lifetime electronic record project (VLER). “The Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record Health Communities ...
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