Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Researchers from the University of Missouri are developing an electronic health record system aimed at meeting the needs of a population of older adults that's expected to almost double in the next 20 years.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday new proposed privacy and security rules and
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The increasing adoption of EHRs and other digital technologies by primary care physicians and specialists points to trends expected to create "dramatic upswings in doctors' case loads," according to a new survey by research company Knowledge Networks.
VHA Inc., a healthcare network that serves more than 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and 28,000 non-acute care providers nationwide, has contracted with athenahealth to offer its physician practices access to the company's full suite of Web-based electronic health record, practice management, and patient communication services.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced a $250,000 settlement - the first of its kind in the country - with healthcare insurer Health Net and its affiliates over health data security breaches.
Just one year after its launch, officials at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report that 57 percent of patients and 40 percent of referring community physicians are using its Web-based portal for personal health information.
Even before healthcare providers begin to demonstrate the first set of meaningful use requirements next year, federal health IT policymakers are already working on how high to set the bar for providers to qualify for the next round of financial incentive payments in 2013.
With the federal programs in place under the HITECH Act, hospitals feel pressured and rushed to purchase an HIE platform, according to Ed Duryee, CIO of Elyria, Ohio-based EMH Regional Healthcare System. "We're in the throes of deciding how to get into the HIE game," he said.
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are working on consent management tools that would let patients control access to their personal health information - including medication lists, lab test results and diagnoses - during health information exchanges between the two agencies.