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Electronic Health Records - United States
Articles and resources about the use of electronic health records in the United States.
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- US shares e-medical records from ambulance
- By Thanya Kunakornpaiboonsiri. FutureGov, 21 February 2013. "The Rochester Regional Health Information Organisation (RHIO) in the US and area emergency medical service (EMS) agencies have agreed to share health information securely with emergency department or primary care physicians, allowing e-medical records of the patients to be sent from the ambulance..."
Added: 22 February 2013;
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- Trending in 2013: Electronic Health Records
- by Tammi Marcoullier. HowTo Blog, January 3, 2013. "Challenge competitions around health are ramping up this year, especially around electronic records. The Health Design Challenge asked designers and developers to re-imagine digital health records. This concept is so popular, there are 232 submissions. Peruse the entries and get an idea of who will be awarded a piece of $50,000 in prizes. Winners have already been notified and will be announced the week of January 6. The challenge is run by Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Their full page graphic details the trends in interest and use of electronic health records (EHRs)..."
Added: 31 January 2013;
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- Committee releases Stage 3 rules for electronic health records
- By John Pulley. NextGov, November 9, 2012. "A federal health information technology committee this week released its proposed rules for Stage 3 meaningful use of electronic health records -- the first step in a long public process of reviewing how the government assesses whether EHRs qualify for incentive payments under Medicare and Medicaid. Health care providers must demonstrate 'meaningful use' of EHRs to qualify for incentives. Meaningful use stages are being phased in over several years, with each stage raising levels of functionality, usability and data exchange required of EHR systems..."
Added: 12 November 2012;
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- Patient data outage exposes risks of electronic medical records
- 'Human error' is blamed for a five-hour computer outage last week. It highlights the risks of a nationwide switch to electronic medical records. By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2012. "Dozens of hospitals across the country lost access to crucial electronic medical records for about five hours during a major computer outage last week, raising fresh concerns about whether poorly designed technology can compromise patient care..."
Added: 6 August 2012;
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- Feds outline plans for electronic exchange of patient information
- U.S. has given out $5 billion in e-health records incentive payments to 76,000 healthcare providers, by Lucas Mearian. (Computerworld (US)), CIO, 4 May, 2012. "The U.S. government expects to provide both money and standards guidance for healthcare providers to deploy and use health information exchanges (HIEs) in a way similar to how electronic prescribing was quickly adopted..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- NIST Releases Technical Guidance for Evaluating Electronic Health Records
- From NIST Tech Beat: March 20, 2012. "An important aspect of any product is how easily someone can use it for its intended purpose, also known as usability. Electronic health records (EHR) that are usable have the potential to improve patient care, which is why the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has outlined formal procedures for evaluating the usability of EHR systems. The proposed usability protocol encourages a user-centered approach to the development of EHR systems. It provides methods to measure and address critical errors in user performance before those systems are deployed in a medical setting..."
Added: 29 March 2012;
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- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Office of E-Helth Standards and Services Announces 90-Day Period of Enforcement Discretion for Compliance with New HIPAA Transaction Standards - in pdf format (68kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). US Department of Health and Human Services, CMS Statement, Thursday, November 17, 2011 "Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) announced that it would not initiate enforcement action until March 31, 2012, with respect to any HIPAA covered entity that is not in compliance with the ASC X12 Version 5010 (Version 5010), NCPDP Telecom D.0 (NCPDP D.0) and NCPDP Medicaid Subrogation 3.0 (NCPDP 3.0) standards. Notwithstanding OESS’ discretionary application of its enforcement authority, the compliance date for use of these new standards remains January 1, 2012 (small health plans have until January 1, 2013 to comply with NCPDP 3.0)..."
Added: 22 November 2011;
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- Feds back off on Jan.1 eHealth standards deadline
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is delaying by 90 days the enforcement deadline by which healthcare providers must roll out a new version of the standard governing how medical transactions are processed. By Lucas Mearian - Framingham. Computerworld, Friday, 18 November, 2011. "... The deadline for Version 5010 of HIPPA transaction and code set standards was scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2012. It has been pushed out to March 31, according to the agency's Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS)..."
Added: 22 November 2011;
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- MedlinePlus Connect Share
- U.S. National Library of Medicine. "Linking Patient Portals and EHRs to Consumer Health Information - MedlinePlus Connect is a free service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This service allows health organizations and health IT providers to link patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems to MedlinePlus, an authoritative up-to-date health information resource for patients, families, and health care providers..."
Added: 22 June 2011;
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- National Library of Medicine launches MedlinePlus Connect
- Department of Health & Human Services, June 20, 2011. "Free tool links patient portals and EHRs to consumer health information - The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has formally launched MedlinePlus Connect. This free service allows health organizations and health information technology (HIT) providers to link patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems to MedlinePlus.gov, a trusted source of authoritative, up-to-date health information for patients, families and health care providers. MedlinePlus brings together information from NIH, other federal agencies, and reputable health information providers. MedlinePlus covers a wide range of health conditions and wellness issues, and includes key resources to inform patients about their health..."
Added: 22 June 2011;
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- NIH starts tool for electronic health records
- By FCW Staff. Federal Computer Week, June 21, 2011. "The National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine has started MedlinePlus Connect, a free tool that links electronic health records (EHRs) with consumer health information..."
Added: 22 June 2011;
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- Defense, VA choose e-health record graphical user interface
- By Bob Brewin. NextGov, 27 May 2011. "The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have selected a key component of the their joint electronic health record -- the graphical user interface, which clinicians will use to access records and radiological imagery, Roger Baker, VA's chief information officer, told a press briefing Friday..."
Added: 2 June 2011;
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- Common VA-DOD health record interface nearing completion
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, May 20, 2011. "The first milestone for the upcoming joint Veterans Affairs and Defense Department electronic health record platform is a common graphical user interface to be in place by July, according to W. Scott Gould, deputy secretary for the VA. A prototype interface already has been developed, Gould told the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on May 18. The user interface provides the front end and a point-of-entry for physicians to interact with the digital medical record system, he said..."
Added: 23 May 2011;
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- An uncertain prognosis for personal health records
- By John Moore. Federal Computer Week, May 3, 2011. "Health IT adoption has been a frustratingly slow, tough slog, and that is especially true for personal health records. PHRs have so far gone the way of electronic health records (EHRs): an initial splash of attention followed by glacially slow adoption. PHR technology emerged about a decade ago and, by most accounts, remains far from achieving wide public acceptance. However, prospects might be brightening..."
Added: 5 May 2011;
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- Doctors Go Digital
- Stimulus payments are putting e-records within reach for many health care providers. NextGov, 27 April 2011. "... Two recent surveys indicate that 41 percent of doctors and 95 percent of hospitals are ready to give electronic records a try. The reason: $27 billion in payments is available for those who make the switch. The payments to doctors, which could be as much as $63,750, are part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act..."
Added: 28 April 2011;
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