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NHS VistA and NHS Open-Source
“There is much widely publicised interest from NHS England in encouraging the development and implementation of open-source software in the NHS with the debate raging in a number of forums, notably on EHI where this article and the comments it has generated are vital reading for anyone interested in this issue. This debate has been fuelled [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News UK EHR Implementation Open Source Source Type: news

How is CPOE more than cookbook medicine in the EMR?
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is quite adamant about the role of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in ensuring the delivery of evidence-based, high-quality, and most importantly safe care to patients using EMR and health IT systems. Between Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use, the requirements for CPOE jump [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News CPOE emr Source Type: news

En terme de e-santé, la France a encore des efforts à abattre
“En deux ans, l’indice de confiance numérique et santé a seulement progressé de 1,6%, passant de 4,72/10 à 4,80 en 2013. C’est ce qui a été révélé dans la deuxième édition du baromètre de la e-santé, dévoilée à l’occasion du colloque numérique santé & autonomie. Si pour Sandrine Degos, directeur Santé & Autonomie du Groupe [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News e-Health social-network Telemedicine Source Type: news

U.S. Hospitals Triple Use of Electronic Health Records: Report
“U.S. hospitals have made major progress in adopting electronic health records systems over the past three years, according to a new report. The number of hospitals with a basic electronic health records (EHRs) system tripled from 2010 to 2012, with more than four of every 10 hospitals now equipped with the new health information technology, according [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Hospitals Incentives Source Type: news

Medicare incentives speed adoption of electronic health records
“The adoption of electronic health records by eligible Medicare providers is on the rise partly due to government incentives, according to a report by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Almost 75 percent of office-based physicians have adopted EHR systems as of 2012. Health IT spans a range of technologies, including EHRs, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 8, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption e-prescribing Incentives Meaningful Use Source Type: news

CPRGlass, The augmented reality APP that can help you save a LIFE
“We have recently seen Google Glass used for MEDED purposes, from tutorials on how to do medical procedures to the Telemedicine potential (Check Surgeon, Rafael Grossman’s work in “Inside The Operating Room With Google Glass” and “How Google Glass Is Changing Medical Education”) I am part of such projects and will continue to work on [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 8, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Google Glass Source Type: news

U.K. Considers VA’s VistA System To Expand Open-Source Software
“The United Kingdom’s National Health Service has announced it is assessing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ VistA electronic health record system as it investigates how to expand the U.K.’s open-source software development programs to meet the country’s health IT needs, Modern Healthcare reports. NHS said in its 52-page report — titled, “Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Open Source Source Type: news

Is patient access to EHR being handled properly by clinics?
“Creating patient advocates in the clinic is an evolving responsibility with many implications for all those concerned. The use of EHR brings together both clinic staff and patients together in many new ways. Whether it’s during the clinic visit or in some other appropriate form of interaction between staff and patient, the EHR continues to [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News RA News Record Access Free text Hospitals Template Source Type: news

Australian doctors give patients less control over their e-health records: survey
“Doctors in Australia are more resistant to giving patients’ control over electronic health records than doctors in other countries, according to an Accenture survey. Accenture surveyed 3700 doctors in eight countries, including 500 doctors in Australia. The survey was conducted during November to December 2012.” Article Adam Bender, Computerworld, 3 July 2013 (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News RA News Record Access Patient Source Type: news

Big Data: Protecting Patient Privacy
“To discover important correlations between patient medical treatments and outcomes requires lots of digging and data analysis. But the task also requires significant steps to protect patient privacy. Toward those goals, Intermountain Healthcare and Deloitte have co-developed OutcomesMiner, a big data analytics platform that is being used by Intermountain, but is also available for use by [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Big Data Data Protection Privacy Source Type: news

Narrative data put docs on high wire
“Healthcare, which has always been based on the doctor-patient interaction, is nearing the end of Stage 1 meaningful use, and as the industry increases its reliance on electronic health records, it faces a new challenge. That conundrum, says Nick van Terheyden, MD, and CMIO at Nuance Communications, is how to reconcile the need for standardized structured [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News LOINC Narrative SNOMED Source Type: news

Electronic Health Records Result in Reduced Medical Errors For Australian Doctors, Accenture Survey Finds
“Accenture’s survey revealed most Australian doctors (83 per cent) want patients to actively participate in their own healthcare by updating their electronic health records (EHR). However, the majority believe that patients should only have limited access to this record — a view shared across the surveyed countries. There was broad agreement among Australian doctors that [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 3, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News RA News Record Access Medical Errors Patient Source Type: news

Halamka: IT Must Plan For Disparate EHRs
“When healthcare systems form affiliations with non-owned physician practices or acquire independent groups, they often encounter difficulties in integrating those practices’ electronic health records with those of other medical groups and of the healthcare organization itself. John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, thinks he has at least a temporary solution. It [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News integration Source Type: news

Why Healthcare Providers Aren’t Happy With EHR Systems
“The federal government is happy to point out that more than 50 percent of physicians and 80 percent of hospitals are using electronic health record (EHR) systems, with those users having received some $14.6 billion in meaningful use incentives initially allocated in the 2009 stimulus. But there’s more to meaningful use than EHR adoption numbers. A [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Implementation Meaningful Use Source Type: news

Payers embrace mHealth
“Two companies with feet firmly planted in the health plan landscape have recently unveiled new products designed to improve the relationship between insurers and consumers, and one of them is looking to make the jump to the provider market. SundaySky, with offices in New York and Tel Aviv, Israel, touts its SmartVideo platform as ideal for [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 28, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News mHealth Source Type: news