Physicians failed to report clinically significant abnormal test results to patients--or to document that they had informed them--in one out of every 14 cases of abnormal results, according to new research published June 22 in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers found that having an EMR does not reduce failure-to-inform rates--and even increases them--if the practice does not have good processes in place for managing test results.
High-field strength MRI and high-slice-count CT are top technologies that hospital c-suite executives need to keep their eyes on in 2009, according to a technology watch list released Monday by the ECRI Institute.
Eclipsys has unveiled a new version of its EMR/practice management (PM) software, PeakPractice, featuring functionality for the clinical and financial needs of ambulatory surgery centers.
Written by Lisa Fratt
Swift, optimum clinical decision-making depends on healthcare systems delivering the right information at the right time to the right caregiver. Model systems across the country are exploiting a host of technologies such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support (CDS) and electronic medical records (EMRs), to ensure this better than anyone else while increasing quality, disseminating best practices and decreasing costs. To create comprehensive, intuitive systems, several of the country's most proactive health systems have formed extensive partnerships with health IT vendors to benefit from the vendor's connectivity and software system development knowledge base.
Progress on Connecting for Health, a £12 billion ($19.3 billion U.S.) program designed to give doctors instant access to patients' records across the country, has stalled, raising questions about whether the civil IT project in England will ever be finished.
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“We’re beginning a revolution the way information is collected, managed, used and purposed for patients in the U.S. healthcare system,” said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in opening remarks at an audioconference training session on meaningful use and EHR certification last week.
In Part 1 of our closer look at the final rules for meaningful use and EHR certification standards, CMIO’s Jeff Byers spoke with David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In Part 2, CMIOs weigh in with mixed reviews.
The framework for meaningful use is “something that had to be done and has been started intelligently,” John P. Glaser, PhD, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare System told CMIO. However, the challenges of becoming meaningful users and optimizing health information exchange will require unprecedented levels of communication within organizations and among healthcare systems, he said.
The contractual obligations in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules under the HITECH Act for business associates and downstream entities are game changers, according to Amy S. Leopard, JD, from Walter and Haverfield, during a webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.