Just as I clarified last week in my post about Certification, the answer to the question “do we need more or less healthcare IT regulation and legislation” is that we need the right amount of the right regulations/legislation. Sometimes when clinicians prescribe medication, although it does therapeutic good, it creates side effects which need to be addressed by changing a dose or by adding additional medications. Such is the case with HITECH. It was generally good medicine, but now that we’ve seen the side effects on workflow, clinician burden, and efficiency, there needs to be a dose adjustment...
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Commentary: 7 Challenges To Cost Control
Len Nichols | Government Health IT | August 22, 2013
[...] I argued that that the recent health care cost growth reduction is real, and that it could be maintained because incentive structures have the potential to link the self-interest of all major health system stakeholders with the social interest in cost growth containment, quality improvement, and better population health. Read More »
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Commentary: Fitting Disease Management Pieces Together
Susan Philip | Government Health IT | July 8, 2013
Health reform is changing the landscape of a patient’s care and treatment, and with the increasing prevalence and rising costs of chronic and complex diseases in the United States, key stakeholders — including payers and providers — are now searching for better ways to manage these conditions. Read More »
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CommonWell Is A Shame And A Missed Opportunity
Adrian Gropper | The Health Care Blog | March 6, 2013
The big news at HIMSS13 was the unveiling of CommonWell (Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway and RelayHealth) to “get the ball rolling” on data exchange across disparate technologies. The shame is that another program with opaque governance by the largest incumbents in health IT is being passed off as progress. Read More »
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CommonWell Wants To 'Open This Up'
Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | March 14, 2014
In the year and 10 days since it was launched in New Orleans, the vendors of the CommonWell Health Alliance have been setting up the infrastructure for their vision of cross-competitive data liquidity. Now it's time to see what that interoperability can accomplish for the patient.
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Consumer Health IT Summit - Government As Catalyst
Brian Ahier | Government Health IT | September 13, 2012
Kicking off National Health IT Week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) hosted the second Consumer Health IT Summit on Monday, September 10, 2012. Read More »
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Consumer Health IT Summit - Government As Catalyst
Brian Ahier | Government Health IT | September 13, 2012
Kicking off National Health IT Week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) hosted the second Consumer Health IT Summit on Monday, September 10, 2012. Read More »
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Consumers Get Serious About Their EMRs
Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | September 16, 2013
As patient engagement grows, a new survey indicates that a growing number of U.S. consumers (41 percent) would be willing to switch doctors to gain online access to their own electronic medical records. Doctors, though, are not as eager to make the change. Read More »
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Crowdfunding Healthcare Innovation: Q & A With Alex Fair, CEO Of MedStartr
Kasia Galica | Informatics for Consumer Health | November 13, 2012
In this ICH Blog post, we spotlight MedStartr, a new health-related crowdfunding platform. Crowdfunding for health-related projects is an innovative idea that enables the consumer to decide what health information technology applications or devices are important and ready to come on the market. Read More »
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Dear CMS/ONC: For Meaningful Use, Give Providers Some Breathing Room, Too
Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | December 10, 2013
Pardon my cynicism, but I'm not overly impressed with the proposal to extend the timeline for Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use program and delay implementation of Stage 3 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Read More »
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DeSalvo Touts Interoperability, Blue Button At Consumer Health IT Summit
Katie Dvorak | FierceHealthIT | September 15, 2014
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT jumped into National Health IT Week in the District of Columbia by placing the focus on the consumers' role in their own healthcare...
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Diagnostic Errors Top ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Concerns for 2018
Press Release |
ECRI Institute |
March 12, 2018
ECRI Institute names diagnostic errors the number one concern on its 2018 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations. Each year, approximately 1 in 20 adults experiences a diagnostic error, according to published studies. These errors and delays can lead to care gaps, repeat testing, unnecessary procedures, and patient harm. “Diagnostic errors are not only common, but they can have serious consequences," says Gail M. Horvath, MSN, RN, CNOR, CRCST, patient safety analyst, ECRI Institute. "A lot of hospital deaths that were attributed to the normal course of disease may have been the result of diagnostic error."
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Digital Health Sees Record Cash Flow
Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | July 9, 2014
Record amounts of cash continue to pour into the digital health arena, with the mid year numbers seeing record highs for year-over-year growth, according to a new Rock Health report. The explosive growth in digital health funding, however, has some analysts uneasy over a potential bubble in the market...
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DirectTrust Reports Strong Growth in Direct Transactions, Number of Direct Exchange Addresses and Users
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DirectTrust |
January 20, 2016
DirectTrust today announced continued record growth in the number of health care organizations using Direct exchange services during 2015, as well as an upsurge in the number of Direct addresses and transactions nationwide. DirectTrust is a non-profit health care industry alliance created by and for participants in the Direct exchange network used for secure, interoperable exchange of personal health information (PHI) between provider organizations, and between provider and patients, for the purpose of improved coordination of care...
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Do Gaps in Health IT Security Laws Stunt Technology Innovation?
Sara Heath | EHR Intelligence | August 10, 2016
A new ONC report details the implications of health IT security laws on health IT innovation and development. Gaps in privacy and security law may be hindering the development and expansion of health IT and EHR use across the industry, a recent report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology suggests...
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Do We Need More or Less Healthcare IT Regulation and Legislation?
By John D. Halamka, MD | July 13, 2016
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