Health IT adoption and telemedicine are among the top 10 health care trends expected to emerge in the coming year, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report, Healthcare IT News reports.
PwC’s Health Research Institute publishes the annual report on key issues in the health care industry (Manos, Healthcare IT News, 12/17).
For 2010, the report contends that [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on December 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
Health care providers are looking to health IT to increase efficiency and improve patient care, according to a new market survey by CompTIA, Healthcare IT News reports.
The market research firm conducted the survey of 300 health care providers and 200 health care IT firms in September 2009.
According to the survey, 83% of health care providers [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on December 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
Electronic health record and electronic prescribing systems can deliver substantial socioeconomic benefits that eventually exceed their costs, but such benefits take a long time to materialize, according to a new European Commission study, E-Health Europe reports.
The final report of the European Commission’s EHR IMPACT study looked at more than 700 indicators of cost and benefits [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on December 18th, 2009 | No Comments »
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente announced an exciting program designed to improve care and services to our Nation’s heroes. VA and Kaiser Permanente are launching a pilot program to exchange electronic health record (EHR) information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services.
“The [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on December 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
As medical practices nationwide focus on “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs), the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) reports encouraging findings from a survey of AMGA member medical groups. Although few groups have yet to fully achieve all the benefits they anticipated when they began implementation, virtually all groups now have even higher expectations [...]
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The Certification Commission today announced the first group of products certified under its two new programs – CCHIT Certified® 2011 Comprehensive, and Preliminary ARRA 2011 – launched on October 7, 2009. Both programs inspect electronic health record (EHR) technology for the first time against proposed Federal standards to support providers in qualifying for 2011-2012 incentives [...]
Filed under: ARRA, CCHIT, EHR on December 11th, 2009 | No Comments »
By Mary Mosquera
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. Paul Tang, chairman of NQF’s Health [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on December 9th, 2009 | No Comments »
By Jennifer Lubell / HITS staff writer
Private industry, not the federal government, will eventually drive health information technology initiatives, said David Blumenthal, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology at HHS, at a policy conference sponsored by the National Committee for Quality Assurance in Washington.
The federal government “has been investing a lot of effort and [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on December 8th, 2009 | No Comments »
By DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”
All’s Well That Ends Well (II, i, 145-147)
2009 began with a bang for legacy Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors, promising strong sales and windfall profits on the heels of [...]
Filed under: CCHIT, EHR on December 7th, 2009 | No Comments »
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced it would reorganize the office to better reflect its role as a leading force in the adoption of electronic health records and other health IT, including closer oversight of privacy issues.
Appointing a chief privacy officer is one of the main moves detailed in a [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on December 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »