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Nigerian Doctors Seek National Policy On E-Health
“Federal government has been urged to urgently develop and establish an effective strategy for the implementation of e- Health in Nigeria. President of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Osahon Enabulele who made the plea in Lagos, regretted that Nigeria is yet to explore the many benefits of e-Health, which he described as a safe, secure, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 8, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News e-Health Implementation Source Type: news

Growing ‘App’etite for Mobile Health
“Feel like you have a cold, or the blues and want to learn more? Or maybe you just want to keep better track of your calories or find out whether you’re really working out hard enough to get back in shape. It turns out there’s an app for that. All of that, actually, and much [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 8, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Innovation mHealth Wireless Source Type: news

CMS and OIG Proposed Rules on EHR Software Exception and Safe Harbor Promote Interoperability
“On April 10, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published parallel proposed rules revising, respectively, the Stark exception and Anti-Kickback safe harbor concerning electronic health record (EHR) items and services. Highlights of the proposed rules include: Sunset Provision. The EHR [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 8, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News e-prescribing Interoperability Software Source Type: news

Fewer doctors, more cameras to spur teledermatology
“Medical peripherals can combine with a smartphone to create the function of an ultrasound machine, an EKG reader, or an otoscope, to name just a few diagnostic devices. But without buying anything extra, nearly every consumer mobile device has a camera of some sort built-in. That means that when it comes to dermatology, most patients [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 7, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Image Teledermatology Telemedicine Source Type: news

Guest editorial: compelling issues in telemedicine
Recent and impendent changes resulting from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) (part of Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) of 2009 and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2011 offer unprecedented potential for telemedicine to play a significant role not only in reforming [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 7, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science ACO e-Health phr Telemedicine Source Type: news

Perspective: It’s not either-or for patients and EHRs
“Studies continue to be released that decry the time physicians spend on computers rather than patients. These studies do our field a disservice because they don’t focus on the many ways EHRs have helped physicians do better for their patients. A few weeks ago I saw a patient Friday afternoon after 5 pm. It was unscheduled [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 7, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Benefits Medication Errors Physician-Patient Relationship Source Type: news

Why EHRs Fail
“Today’s EHRs mostly don’t live up to expectations and sometimes they simply don’t work at a particular site. Others seem to work but produce insidious, harmful effects that are rarely traced back to their true source. There are other projects that are superficially similar in scope and objectives but are extremely successful. It is baffling to [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 7, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Failure Source Type: news

EHR dissatisfaction: A tech or people problem?
“A percolating problem is beginning to boil over: doctors and nurses really don’t like their new electronic health records systems. And, as EHR implementations increase ahead of government deadlines for incentive dollars, dissatisfaction among clinicians is growing. The problem might be that EHR implementation is treated as a purely technological issue when in reality it is [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 7, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Implementation Satisfaction workforce Source Type: news

Electronic Health Records Will Enable Big Data Analysis of Healthcare Information
“Where is most of your personal data stored? Think about it – who has the most critical, personal information about you? It’s not your bank, or your mortgage company or your Internet service provider. In fact, it’s a loosely connected network of healthcare entities: your doctor, the lab who does your tests, your local hospital [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 7, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Data analysis Data Mining Data Storage Health Information Source Type: news

Are Patients From Mars and Health Care Professionals from Venus? – Part 1
“It has been a little while I know. Sometimes though the patient in me rears its ugly head again and I have to get out of blogger mode and in to being a bowel transplant patient. That is kind of a long winded apology but The Churchill Hospital, Oxford has seem a little too much [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 7, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News RA News Record Access UK EHR Patient Source Type: news

AHIMA: EHRs can lead to better coding, more accurate reimbursement
“When used correctly, EHRs produce more accurate documentation leading to more complete coding, and ultimately, more accurate reimbursement claims, according to Sue Bowman, senior director of coding policy and compliance of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Bowman presented during a listening session hosted by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 6, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Benefits Coding Ethics Source Type: news

Some doctors refusing to adopt electronic records
“Under a plan first endorsed by President George W. Bush and signed into law by President Obama, the health care industry in the United States has started to change one of the signature elements in doctor’s offices — switching chicken-scratched hand-written notes and records to electronic forms. Supporters sold it as a time- and money-saving reform [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 6, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Costs Incentives Source Type: news

AMA says EHRs create ‘appalling Catch-22′ for docs – And just how many experts does it take to screw in a light bulb, anyway?
“NOTE: this post, being about minor matters like death and financial mayhem, is particularly and unusually [even for me] biting and lacking in euphemisms and political correctness. If you are easily offended and want the latter, and/or believe we all need to be ‘nice’ about banal issues like patient injury and death, fraud, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 6, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Fraud Risks Source Type: news

140,000 New Government Diagnosis Codes Doctors Hate
“The health care industry is “not progressing at a suitable pace” to be ready for tens of thousands of new government-mandated “ICD-10” codes used to describe diseases and hospital procedures in the insurance billing process, a new analysis shows. Though the conversion to 140,000 new codes that medical-care providers will use in order to bill government [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 5, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Coding ICD-10 Source Type: news

The Role of Patient Portals in the Future of Healthcare
“As we get increasingly digital and Internet-savvy, more and more healthcare patient portals are cropping up, and thus, medical patients now have greater access to their health information than ever before. Patients can also be hands-on in supplying, questioning and correcting their data, which can help improve the accuracy of the data. Patient portals are seeing [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 5, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News RA News Record Access Patient Portal Source Type: news