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HIMSS Analytics released data last week from its survey of 687 hospitals that reveals almost 25 percent are meeting 10 or more of the 14 mandatory Stage 1 meaningful use criteria requirements. That’s great news.
The rapid adoption of smartphones and now touch-screen tablets (e.g., iPad) by clinicians will trigger enormous growth in the use of mHealth Apps within healthcare enterprises, with the market for mHealth in the enterprise projected to reach $1.7B by end of year 2014.
David Blumenthal, MD, head of ONC, was on hand last week to help announce the launch of EHRevent.org, a safety reporting system that will let healthcare providers report problems in the implementation and use of EHRs. It will serve as a tracking system so the industry can identify trends and react quickly.
I read an interesting column about an octogenarian woman who lived by herself, despite multiple chronic conditions including congestive heart failure, arthritis, gout and glaucoma. Her health deteriorated rapidly last year and her primary caregiver, her daughter who lived two and a half hours away, was faced with putting her independent mother in an assisted-living facility.
Maine's regional extension center (REC) forum last week presented another good session for healthcare providers on how to making the transition from paper to electronic a seamless one.
Healthcare providers can never get enough advice about how to implement EHRs. Maine's regional extension center held a forum for healthcare providers last week and one physician, who has been practicing in a paperless environment for the last five years, gave excellent guidance. Take heed.
Many physician champions tout EHRs as an enabler for delivering quality care anywhere. Nova Scotia apparently is not full of physician champions.
Meaningful use is providing incentive for hospitals to step up and digitize health information. It's an admirable step forward for the healthcare industry.
The Ponemon Institute is releasing the results of its survey of 67 American healthcare organizations and their data breach incidents over the last two years. It turns out that the customer losses and legal fees for the privacy violations rack up an average of $1 million per hospital.
A new report from KLAS delivers some interesting, if not surprising, news: Smaller hospitals are considering large clinical information system (CIS) vendors over vendors that traditionally service the community hospital segment of the market.