Submitted by warren on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 14:07
The CEO of the AMA, James L. Madara, MD has ask Congress to delay the transition to ICD-10 in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner because the HIPAA_mandated implementation would place too great a burden on physicians, being both too costly to them and disruptive to their other health IT efforts.
More information at http://www.cmio.net/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=31492:...
Submitted by warren on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 13:20
I am heading down to Jacksonville Florida at the beginning of April for the HIT '12 conference for Healthcare Information professionals. Let me know if any of you will be attending. If you are a HIMSS member you can apply for one of the free spots.
Details follow:
HIT '12: Healthcare Information Transformation
Leveraging IT to improve healthcare delivery
April 3-4, 2012
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, FL
Submitted by warren on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 17:12
Many providers are looking to tablets to help make them more agile. However a new report from Business Insider ( http://www.businessinsider.com/hardware-companies-will-have-to-leave-the... ) may make you want to think again. If they are correct in their predictions, and they have a decent track record, only those tablet makers who have a secondary stream of revenue from content will survive. That pretty much narrows it down to the Kindle, the Nook and the iPad.
An article in Information Week has provided us with insight into patients and their interest in utilizing electronic resources to view their health information. While a large number have expressed an interest in accessing their health information online (an estimated 56 million patients) that only represents 41% of the population. The majority of the population is not yet interested in accessing their health information online. The article provides details on the demographics of the two groups which are quite different.
Submitted by warren on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:39
According to a new survey from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, 40% of Doctors and Hospitals surveyed have caught a patient trying to use an identity card that is not their own.
This survey of 600 executives from U.S. hospitals, doctors' organizations, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and life sciences companies found that incidents of patient's identity when seeking medical service being fraudulent was the second most common privacy or security issue reported.
Submitted by warren on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 10:32
According to a new Health Affairs study, that threshold is "probably too low" to help to decrease the number of deaths from pneumonia, heart failure and heart attacks. It says that the 30% threshold is not enough to improve the safety of patients and to reduce errors made in prescribing. The suggestion of the study is to raise it to 60% then to 80%.
Read more at http://www.informationweek.com/news/healthcare/CPOE/231601769
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a study, which looks at care delivered to diabetic patients in physician practices that use electronic health records compared to physician practices that do not. The results should not come as a surprise to those of us who are working to speed the adoption and meaningful use of health IT: Practices that use EHRs -- especially in conjunction with collaborative efforts to improve quality -- delivered measurably better care than practices which rely on paper records.
Report shows a continuing decline among men, and a promising decline among women
The rates of new lung cancer cases in the United States dropped among men in 35 states and among women in 6 states between 1999 and 2008, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among women, lung cancer incidence decreased nationwide between 2006 and 2008, after increasing steadily for decades.
Cannon Tubb , a nurse in Colorado, has been indicted on 90 charges of attempted theft, identity theft and theft of medical records related to his work at Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton and St. Anthony North in Westminster, according tp 9 News. Hospital Officials report he that looked up demographic information on at least 74 patients . An audit of electronic medical records found Tubb violated hospital policy and accessed patient information for reasons unrelated to treatment.
