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Survey: Health Records Hassle Is Top Area of Doctor Dissatisfaction
“In days of yore, when she scribbled orders with a pen, it would take two, maybe three, minutes for Dr. Christine Sinsky to complete the paperwork to admit a patient to a hospital. “Today, it takes me 20 minutes to record that same information in an electronic health record,” says Sinsky, an internal medicine physician [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - March 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Alert/Reminder Satisfaction Source Type: news

Creating a Single EHR: During a Merger, or Later?
“Many hospitals and health systems are evaluating new partnerships to ensure long-term financial viability; in fact, hospital mergers doubled between 2009 and 2012. This trend likely will continue as it is expected that one out of five hospitals will merge in the next five to seven years, according to a New York Times article published [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - March 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Interoperability Source Type: news

With EHR, Two Heads Are Not Better Than One
“Today, my e-mail offers me a white paper: “Brigham and Women’s Hospital saves over $9 million, improves [medical transcription] productivity 123%” with Dragon Dictate. My immediate reaction is: The feds’ EHR push is aimed squarely at data collection. Why is a technology leader like Brigham and Women’s spending time and money on dictation, something that [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - March 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News dictation Interoperability Meaningful Use Narrative Source Type: news

Transforming Medical Practice through Electronic Health Records
“About 15 years ago, an eye-opening report by the U.S. Institute of Medicine starkly quantified the impact of medical errors, concluding that as many as 100,000 lives are lost each year to preventable mistakes. In the ensuing debate over systemic reforms, paper medical records – cumbersome at the best of times and illegible and poorly [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - March 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Benefits Chronic Diseases Medication Errors Monitoring Source Type: news

Electronic health records rife with flaws
“The electronic health-records article written by Winthrop Quigley (March 3: “Patient files go high-tech”) contained the misconception that the EHR allows a physician to see every scrap of information relevant to a patient’s care. The EHR that Presbyterian Healthcare Services is using only contains information about patients seen at Presbyterian and can only be accessed by [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - March 12, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News RA News Record Access Data Exchange Failure Patient-clinician communication Source Type: news

What is the Future Role of EHRs in the Health IT Ecosystem?
“Some very interesting trends are occurring in the health IT arena, which raise the question of what role Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems will have in the future. A few years ago, the focus for health care professionals and hospitals was EHR acquisition and implementation, as well as qualification and access to federal incentive money [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - March 4, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Data analysis Engagement Interoperability user interface Source Type: news

Going Live With EHR Leads to Frustrations, Productivity Hit
“Implementing an electronic health record (EHR) system takes excessive physician and staff time and disrupts practice, according to survey results published Feb. 24 in Medical Economics. According to results from the two-year Medical Economics EHR Best Practices Study, 96 percent of the participating physicians reported excessive time to implement, 89 percent noted a disruption to the [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - March 4, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Disruptive Implementation Workflow Source Type: news

Key findings from survey on patient views towards EHRs
“High levels of patient and public concerns about the security of integrated EHRs in the UK highlight a need for more intensive public awareness and engagement initiatives, together with the establishment of trustworthy security and privacy mechanisms for health information sharing. Differences in awareness levels and consent expectations between groups with different socio-demographic characteristics suggest [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - February 27, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News RA News Record Access UK EHR Awareness Consent Information Sharing Patient Security Source Type: news

Medical records rules broken, NHS admits
“Medical records appear to have been wrongly given to the insurance industry by the health service, the NHS admits. Details on hospital admissions from 1989 to 2010 were handed to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.” Article Nick Triggle, BBC News, 24 February 2014 (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - February 26, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News UK EHR Data Sharing Hospitals Insurance Source Type: news

ONC backs EHR update for implantable medical devices
“The ONC has recommended that makers of electronic health records update their systems to capture and display identification data about implantable medical devices. The recommendation, which came in a proposed rule late Friday, suggests that EHRs record and display these unique device identifiers. “We believe that EHR technology will play a key role in the widespread [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - February 26, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Devices Identifiers Implants Source Type: news

EHR nightmares: Why treating EHRs like paper records fails
“Automating is a funny word — it typically implies the removal of manual intervention in a process. More often than not, we find that it is actually used to describe replicating a manual process in a system. After all, if we ditch the paper process, what will be put in the file cabinet? Don’t we [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - February 26, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Failure Paper Conversion Workflow Source Type: news

Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers
“The medical records of every NHS hospital patient in the country have been sold for insurance purposes, The Telegraph can reveal. The disclosure comes days after controversial plans to extract patient data from GP files were put on hold, amid concerns over the scheme.” Article Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph, 23 February 2014 (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - February 25, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News UK EHR GP Hospitals Insurance Privacy Source Type: news

NHS England delays care.data scheme to ‘build understanding’ of benefits
“NHS England has announced it will delay its flagship data-sharing scheme for six months, to allow managers more time to ‘build understanding of the benefits’. NHS bosses said they would halt the planned extraction of data from GP surgeries in April and delay it until the autumn.” Article Alex Matthews-King, Pulse Today, 19 February 2014 (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - February 19, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News UK EHR Benefits Implementation Source Type: news

ICD-10 Follies: Practices Still Far From Ready
“Fewer than one in 10 physician practices (9.4%) believe they’ve made “significant progress” in preparing for the upcoming transition to the ICD-10 coding system, a January survey of more than 570 medical groups found. That number from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) survey is up only slightly from a June 2013 survey, also from the [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - February 6, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Billing Coding ICD-10 Implementation Source Type: news

EHR Use During Patient Visit May Mean Missed Non-Verbal Cues
“Patterns of eye gaze change with the use of electronic health records (EHRs), and this influences physician-patient interaction, according to research published in the March issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics. Enid Montague, Ph.D., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and Onur Asan, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin in [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - February 6, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Patient-clinician communication Primary Care Source Type: news