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Why Doctors Still Use Pen And Paper
The health-care system is one of the most technology-dependent parts of the American economy, and one of the most primitive. Every patient knows, and dreads, the first stage of any doctor visit: sitting down with a clipboard and filling out forms by hand.
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Why EMR Is a Dirty Word to Many Doctors
The goal of EMRs is to wrestle control of healthcare away from the doctor-patient relationship into the hands of third parties who can then implement their policies by simply removing a button or an option in the EMR. If you can’t select a particular treatment option, for all intents and purposes the option doesn’t exist or the red tape to choose it is so painful that there is little incentive to “fight the system.”
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Why Feds Are Still Buying IT That Works With Windows XP
During the past year, various agencies have bought or expressed interest in buying products compliant with a Microsoft operating system set to lose security support next week, according to a review of federal solicitations and the agencies themselves. The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, as well as the Veterans Affairs, Labor and State departments are a few of the Windows XP holdouts.
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Why Is True Interoperability Crucial To Healthcare’s Future?
As the work between the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) has shown, true EHR interoperability is no small feat. The two federal agencies have put in considerable time, energy, and resources and still find themselves short of achieving fully interoperable EHR systems and under the gun with Congress demanding to see a detailed plan by the end of the month. Read More »
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Why Suicide Prevention Is Part of Population Health Strategy
As hospitals and health systems recognize the need to devote more time and attention to population health management and improving community health, more effort correspondingly must be focused on behavioral health services. In response, the American Hospital Association has launched an initiative to assist hospitals with behavioral health...
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Why Take EHR Data Out Of Structured Format?
HL7's conversion tool may seem counterproductive, but it's meant to encourage patients to use Blue Button. Read More »
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Why The Private Sector Lags VA In Telehealth
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has long been ahead of the private sector in health IT. Its VistA electronic health record (EHR) system, for example, was in use throughout the VA's hospitals and ambulatory clinics long before non-VA providers began to adopt EHRs en masse in the past few years. And as recent VA figures show, the department has also left the private sector in the dust in the area of telehealth. Read More »
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Why VA Health Care Is Different
Is VA health care really “all that different” from what veterans would find in the private sector? As someone who spent more than 25 years managing private sector health care organizations and recently joined VA as its under secretary for health, I’ve had the unique opportunity to compare the health care systems. Over the past several months, I’ve met with veterans and their families, veterans service organizations, VA clinicians, facility staff, and veteran employees at all levels...
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Women, War, And PTSD
Are female warriors more likely to be traumatized by combat? Read More »
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Worldwide Health IT Learning
These memories came back to me this week after reading a report from 2020 Health.org. Researchers for the physician-led, not-for-profit British think tank concluded that the British National Health Service could learn a thing or two about operating a telehealth service for British patients by studying the telehealth system developed by the VA to care for more than 50,000 chronically ill American veterans.
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Wyden-Ryan Plan Won't Improve Health Care System
The Wyden-Ryan proposal is misleading and distracts from the best solution. Instead of "defined contribution" plans, let's define for Sen. Wyden what this country needs to save health care: single-payer, universal coverage. "Everybody in, nobody out."
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You Can Help Veterans In Just 2 Minutes
To someone on the outside, the answer is clear: The DoD simply should adopt VistA, the Veteran's Affair's electronic health record. Here's why: Read More »
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Your EHR Doesn't Have To Be A Liability
Shed the status quo in favor of a customer-centric approach to healthcare IT Read More »
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‘Badass Innovators’ Get Down To Work
Eighteen Presidential Innovation Fellows, sworn into government service by Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry on Thursday, have six months to get five major government initiatives up and running. Read More »
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5th Annual Warfighter Support IT Day Will Feature Health IT Panel
This coming Tuesday on August 28, the 5th Annual Warfighter Support IT Day will feature a high caliber panel focused on health IT. The panelists are experts in their field, and – of special interest to our readers – experts in the future iEHR (Integrated Electronic Health Record), a joint project spearheaded by the VA and DoD. Hailed as one of the most significant health IT initiatives to date, the iEHR's success “is critical to the White House,” and sparked the creation of the IPO (Interagency Program Office) so that leading experts – in fact, many of the panelists who will be present at the conference – could oversee and guide the project. Read More »
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