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• Hospital’s struggle illustrates health IT woes

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  The University of California San Francisco Medical Center has written off more than a third of the $50 million it has spent on a system to digitize patients’ medical records, according to an article by AHCJ member Fred Schulte for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund and American University’s Investigative ...
  20 hours ago

• Survey reveals how much patient privacy is at risk

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund report on a survey in which 75 percent of health organization say patients’ medical records were put at “risk of improper disclosure.” The study, done for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society , also revealed that ...
  4 days ago

• Health IT pros warn of network vulnerabilities during cyberwar

  
  News — Authority: 127
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-20

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 118
  [Post from Infoglide ] Entity Resolution Metrics “In the last post we looked at the problem of measuring the accuracy of entity resolution processes.  As with any accuracy measure, comparing to a known standard of correctness or benchmark is required.  However, even without a benchmark, other measures are ...
  1 week ago

• Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  (Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected. This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. In a recent study, Dr. read more
  1 week ago

• Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  (Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected. This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. In a recent study, Dr. read more
  1 week ago

• Electronic Health Records, Your Data At Risk

  
  Natural Health News — Authority: 133
  I started posting articles about electronic health and medical records in 2006 on Natural Health News.  I am not in favour of this push in the arena of cost savings in the US health system.  To date little has been shown to indicate any effective improvment in healthcare delivery or cost savings, yet most of the ...
  1 week ago

• ICMCC: Perhaps the single most valuable e-patient info site

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 551
  In last weekend’s post about “patients want all their data” I said I wished I’d known about the article (published mid-May) during last summer’s health data debates in Washington. Incredible Dutch e-patient Lodewijk Bos tweaked me, saying he’d posted it the day it was released. That led me to ask him to ...
  1 week ago

• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-16

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 118
  By the Infoglide Team Government Technology: California Plans to Launch Information Security Operations Center “The CA-ISOC would watch for attacks on the state government’s critical information infrastructure, including attempts to disrupt automated control networks for dams, power plants and other ...
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• Dream Team No Longer an Option to Save 2012 eHealth Objectives

  
  Enterprise Insights — Authority: 116
  With the resignation of Ron Sapsford this past week the regime that has been associated with eHealth in Ontario for the past five years has completely turned over. The last remaining person is Dalton McGuinty himself who, if he is planning to vie for a third term as Premier, will have to erase much of the last several ...
  1 week ago

• Health Center Gets Grant to Expand Network in State

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 155
  A grant for nearly $1.37 million will allow Coastal Family Health to expand its electronic warehouse, adding four more centers to a shared database. Seven federally qualified medical offices are part of the state’s Health Center Controlled Network, a group of health centers that has banded together to ...
  1 week ago

• Little Benefit Seen, So Far, in Electronic Patient Records

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A new study shows that electronic health records have so far not made improved health care quality or cost. The reason may be that the technology is not being fully exploited.
  1 week ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  1 week ago

• Electronic Health Records Part II

  
  Why We Worry — Authority: 128
  Some notes from the writer, Andy Oram, of this O’Reilly Radar pos t when he attended the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium : According to the president of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, Micky Tripathi, 80% of US medical practices consist of just one or two physicians, and small practices handle 90% ...
  2 weeks ago

• Truth Behind Free EMR Software

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 132
  Google records more than a 1000 searches every month of people interested in free EMR software. Despite the common notion that “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” physicians continuously seek ways to acquire the EMR software without spending a single penny.There are three flavors of “free EMR” in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tablet PCs and EMR

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 132
  Tablet PCs represents one of the latest and the best technology in the field of EMRs and these have been successful in keeping up their promise of providing a perfect electronic solution for maintaining the patient charts.  There are two main types of PC tablets: convertible style and slate style.One major difference ...
  2 weeks ago

• What you Need to Know Before Investing in Web-Based EMR

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 132
  With the recession currently plaguing the lives of most Americans, spending money to implement Electronic Medical Records solution into practice may seem a bad idea. However, a great number of physicians have successfully implemented the “right-fit” EMR in their clinics to discover the increased efficiency of ...
  2 weeks ago

• EHR System Could Help Reduce Hip Fractures says Kaiser

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 132
  HealthConnect, Kaiser Permanente’s electronic health record system in California, is in the process of formulating a new osteoporosis prevention program that could significantly drop cases of hip fractures in the nation by 25 percent.Coined the world’s largest civilian EHR database, HealthConnect will assist the ...
  2 weeks ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• HHS Pays Health Centers $27.8 Million to Implement EHR and Other IT

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 145
  HHS has awarded $27.8 million to 27 health centers and health center networks across the country to implement electronic health records and other health information technology, according to an HHS release. Eighteen grants for a total of $22.6 million will support EHR implementation; four grants totaling more ...
  3 weeks ago

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