Government surveillance: How electronic prescription records are changing medicine
Every time an American fills a prescription, a searchable electronic database record is made. This record is kept, like the paper records of a few decades ago, to allow for verification of medications dispensed in the U.S. But in the past, to access these records, enforcement agencies had to get a search warrant signed by
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Government surveillance: How electronic prescription records are changing medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Physician Pain Management Source Type: blogs
I Am Amazed That This Truth Has Not Been More Remarked Upon Over The Ages!
This appeared a few days ago
NSW Customer Service says digital "cannot be the only answer"
By Kate
Weber
Nov 23 2023 12:38PM
Inclusivity and social cohesion drive
decision-making.
The NSW Department of Customer Service has warned against over reliance of
digital solutions to solve community issues, highlighting the importance of
inclusion in the digital government service delivery age. (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – November 18, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Talkiatry Finds Features and Flexibility in eClinicalWorks. Colin Hung connected with CEO Robert Krayn to talk about how the telemedicine service connects psychiatrists with patients and handles the many types of mental health referrals using eCW EHR, which Talkiatry chose based on its flexibility. Read more…
What Are the Most Compelling Uses of AI...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Patient Engagement through Communication Platforms
With the increase in digital health, remote care, and patient access, the need for a reliable platform to conduct everything has also increased. But while we all need reliable communication platforms, properly utilizing them is an entirely different story. There is already so much to consider in terms of what works best for your organization, but then you need to rethink everything in terms of what is best for the patient. You might be reassured that it is safe and easy to use on the administrator end, but is it that way on the user end for the patients?
For some insights on patient engagement in communication platforms we...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Cassie Choi Communication Platform David Wright hc1 Insights HSBlox John Moyer Kathy Ford Kel Pul Source Type: blogs
MIDAS Healthcare Solutions Extends Series A Round With New Investment by MCPC Healthcare Fund
MIDAS Healthcare Solutions, Inc., the leading developer of technology-driven solutions to promote the safe use, storage, return, and disposal of controlled substances and other dangerous medications in hospitals and other healthcare institutions, announced today a $2 million investment from MCPC Healthcare Investment, LLC, the newly formed investment arm of Cleveland-based MCPC. This investment makes MCPC the largest single external shareholder of MIDAS and will allow MIDAS to expand its product development efforts in preparation for the 2024 product rollout.
This investment comes as the healthcare industry continues to b...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bryan Scheetz Dr. Delos (Toby) Cosgrove Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Ira Grossman MCPC MCPC Healthcare Investment Michael Lafauci Midas MIDAS Healthcare Solutions Mike Source Type: blogs
Zealous for Wellness: Deciding What Kind of Change You Want
This article looks at the measurements and reporting strategies used by some specific companies. Their interventions, goals, and measures depend a lot on who’s paying for the service.
Wondr Health Gives Employers What They Ask For
Wondr Health, like so many companies in this article and in the value-based healthcare space generally, works with employers and payers. Ultimately, for many employers, the purpose of engaging Wondr Health’s behavioral interventions is to improve employee productivity.
According to chief medical officer Dr. Tim Church, some of Wondr Health’s clients focus on cutting down the c...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Behavior Change behavioral health Cli Source Type: blogs
Workflow Automation To Help Deliver Services to Marginalized Populations
The recent turn to a more holistic health care system—such as the interest in dealing with social determinants of health, covered in a recent SDoH series on this site—places a new urgency on connecting patients to services that provide counseling, food, transportation, and other needs that affect their health.
Many people among impoverished and under-represented populations don’t use the services to which they’re entitled. The people might not realize these services exist, or don’t think they need help, or don’t think they deserve it. Many of these people enter the ecosystem of human resource o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Administrative Workflows Case Management Casebook Casebook PBC Diversity Equity and Inclusio Source Type: blogs
Turnarounds are Talent Magnets: University of Chicago Medical Center
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
Like birds of a feather, talent in healthcare management often gathers in flocks. The University of Minnesota, University of Michigan and University of Iowa healthcare management programs are all justly famous for graduating, over many decades, an exceptional number of future transformative healthcare leaders. But sometimes, talent comes from the “street”- challenging healthcare turnarounds that attract risk-taking leaders who, in turn, gather young talent around them. The University of Chicago’s urban academic health center has been one of these places.
The U of C was (and remains) the la...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Jeff Goldsmith talent University of Chicago Source Type: blogs
Geographic Differences in the Mortality Burden of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Julian Reif (University of Illinois), Hanke Heun-Johnson (University of Southern California), Siho Park (University of Illinois), Geographic Differences in the Mortality Burden of the Covid-19 Pandemic (Institute of Government and Public Affairs Research Paper) (2023): While the COVID-19 pandemic greatly... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 13, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
How confident are clinicians to deliver pain self-management?
Over the past few weeks I’ve been talking about pain self management from many perspectives. It’s an important topic because most people living with pain will be self managing most of the time. Being able to confidently self manage leads to less disability, distress and lives that look like life, not some endless healthcare regime.
A paper by Penlington et al., (2023) explored confidence beliefs of clinicians working in the UK in primary or community settings prior to a training programme that was then delivered to them. The sample included in the survey is therefore a subset of those who might be expected t...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - November 12, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping Skills Coping strategies Pain conditions Research Science in practice Health healthcare pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Capitalist pigs
I ' ve had a few things to say now and again about the incompatibility of the pursuit of profit with medicine. The corporatization and commodification of health care has been bad for people biologically, emotionally, and financially. There ' s a lot to unpack about that, but one of the most egregious problems is so-called private equity, that is companies that are not publicly traded, do not have to make substantive financial disclosures, and generally operate by buying up existing companies, squeezing profit out of them by cutting costs, and then selling them, usually as husks of their former selves. Here ' s one of innum...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 10, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
American Telemedicine Association Leaps Into Privacy and AI Policies
The computerization of daily life has evolved from a set of technical decisions to a matter of urgent public policy over the past few decades. The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI.
Of course, privacy and AI both make front-page news these days. Concerns over the data protection of individuals dates back to the 1970s. The issue takes on new urgency since evidence has emerged about the manipulation of voters and exploitation of children. AI became the subject of an international summit at Bletchley P...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AI Regulations Artificial Intelligence ATA HIPAA Kyle Zebley privacy Privacy Regulations Telehealth Policy Telemedicine Regulations Source Type: blogs
Will the AMA Support A Move Toward Single Payer Health Care?
By MIKE MAGEE
The Politico headline in 2019 declared dramatically, “The Most Powerful Activist in America is Dying.” This week, 4 1/2 years later, their prophecy came true, as activist Ady Barkan succumbed at age 39 to ALS leaving behind his vibrant wife, English professor, Rachael King, and two small children, Carl,7, and Willow,3.
His journey, as one of the nation’s leading activists for a single-payer health care system began, not coincidentally, began with his diagnosis of A.L.S. in 2016, 4 months after the birth of his first child. His speech at the Democratic National Convention fully exposed his conditio...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Ady Barkan AMA Mike Magee Single payer Source Type: blogs
The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms
Communication is the key to making anything work – including your organization. But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. What’s the best way for providers to coordinate the many different areas and people they have to handle? How many communication platforms do you even need to accomplish the goals of your organization without making it overcomplicated? How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy Abhi Sharma Ali Davis Amit Phadnis Care Coordination Communication Pl Source Type: blogs
OntarioMD Looks to Help with AI Adoption and EMR Improvements
In an insightful conversation with Healthcare IT Today, Rob Fox, the Chief Executive Officer of OntarioMD, shared the organization’s pivotal role in advancing healthcare in Ontario.
OntarioMD is embarking on two ambitious initiatives. One is aimed at helping Electronic Medical Record (EMR) users in Ontario drive down costs and have a bigger voice with vendors. The other is aimed at determining the best path forward for harnessing AI to enhance patient care and optimize physician practices.
Supporting Physicians and Hospitals
The primary focus of OntarioMD is to add value to the healthcare system, supporting physician...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Clinical Voice Canadian EMR Certified EMR EMR Pricing Healthcare AI Ministry of Health OHTs Ontario Health Teams OntarioMD positive deviance Rob F Source Type: blogs
