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Researching errors in computerized prescriber order entry in order to boost patient safety is the focus of a year-long research project to be conducted by the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Communication and medical technologies have the ability to keep more seniors healthier at a lower cost, particularly those who live in remote rural areas, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), who chairs the Senate Special Committee on Aging, told the panel at a hearing on Friday.
Special Committee on Aging renews call for broadband, tele-health services to keep seniors healthy at lower cost.
Law called for toughening HIPAA privacy and security rule given the spread of electronic health records and health exchange.
Reserve Brig. Gen. Woodson, surgeon and health outcomes research expert, nominated as assistant secretary of health affairs.
Heath IT extensions centers should have early focus on rural practices, says national coordinator Blumenthal.
The copy and paste function of an electronic health record is "one of the most egregious dangers of electronic charting," according to a recent editorial in the American Journal of Medicine.
The Health IT Policy Committee endorsed recommendations for the creation of a national database to which healthcare providers can confidentially report patient data errors and unsafe conditions they encounter using electronic health records. Reporting of safety issues would become part of Stage 2 of meaningful use requirements.
Increasing the use of quality measurement as part of electronic health records systems is critical to achieving meaningful use of health information technology, the American College of Physicians reported in a paper released Thursday at the 129,000-member organization's annual meeting in Toronto.
Henry Ford Hospital researchers took electronic medical records onto the marathon route last year to show that the technology could make it easier to care for runners. The researchers presented the results recently at the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine's annual meeting in Mexico.