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Electronic Health Records - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about the implementation of electronic health records by government.
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- Electronic Health Records - Australia
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to electronic health records in Australia.
Added: 6 December 2005
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- Electronic Health Records - Canada
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to electronic health records in Canada.
Added: 12 December 2005
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- $50 million for Medicare Locals to help rollout eHealth records
- Minister for Health, Media Release, 18 May 2012. "Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced $50 million over two years will be made available to Medicare Locals – networks that support frontline health providers – to assist GPs and other health care providers to adopt and use the Australian Government’s new eHealth records system..."
Added: 21 May 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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- Budget 2012: $467m prompts just one in ten
- by Beverley Head. IT Wire, Tuesday, 8 May 2012. "Just one in every ten Australians is expected to opt for a personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) over the next two years, despite the Government’s hefty $467 million investment in the programme..."
Added: 9 May 2012;
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- Federal bill on electronic patient records to be prepared by the end of 2012
- e-Practice, 26 April 2012. Country Switzerland; Domain eHealth; Topic Electronic health records, ICT for patient safety, Patient summary, Policy, Regional/national Health Information Networks. "The Swiss Federal Council asked the Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA) to draft a bill as well as a corresponding message by the end of 2012 on the development of electronic patient records, taking into account the results of the consultation process that ran from September to December 2011..."
Added: 26 April 2012;
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- Security concerns over Australia's e-health records
- Medicos blame NEHTA's 'unreliable performance'. But enough with lost data! Let's criminalise negligent data breaches. by Stilgherrian. CSO Online (Australia), 23 April, 2012. "As Australia grinds ever-closer to putting our health records online from (allegedly) 1 July, disturbing news is emerging. US hospitals are seeing more data breaches, and Australian medical experts warn that patient safety could be put at risk. 'It is not yet possible to make any definitive statement about whether the personally controlled electronic health record is safe or not,' wrote three experts in the latest subscriber-only Medical Journal of Australia..."
Added: 24 April 2012;
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- AMA prices e-health record creation
- By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet Australia, April 10, 2012. "The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has laid out a payment scheme for how it thinks doctors should be compensated for creating a patient's health-record summary. A health-record summary is a quick fact sheet of a patient's health that their GP will create and keep up to date. The health summary is a key element of the government's personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) scheme, which the government is starting from 1 July..."
Added: 11 April 2012;
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- Tanya Plibersek makes 'watershed' announcement at Health-e-Nation Conference 2012
- ITWire, Wednesday, 4 April 2012. "SYDNEY, Australia. Federal Minister for Health, Tanya Plibersek, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chair of the Global eHealth Ambassador Program and Jane Halton PSM, Secretary of the Department of Health and Ageing were among a distinguished array of healthcare, government and IT leaders that contributed to the success of the tenth annual Health-e-Nation Conference on the Gold Coast held March 27-29, 2012. Minister Plibersek chose the Health-e-Nation Conference to make her first address to an ehealth focused audience. She announced GPs will be able to claim MBS payments for creating and adding patient details to the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR), and cautioned against expecting miraculous overnight changes to the nation’s ehealth system come July 1, 2012..."
Added: 5 April 2012;
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- Govt shells out $21m for final leg of e-health record system
- The funding will cover the final scope of the project before it goes live on 1 July, by Chloe Herrick - Computerworld, 3 April, 2012. "The Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) has allocated $21 million to the National E-Health Transition Authority’s (NEHTA) for the final scope of the national e-health record system. The final round of funding for the government’s $466.7 million Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) project has come some four months after it was scheduled for allocation last November..."
Added: 4 April 2012;
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- GPs to receive support for e-health
- By Michael Lee, ZDNet Australia, March 29th, 2012. "Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced that general practitioners (GP) will receive additional support from the government if they use e-health records as part of a consultation..."
Added: 29 March 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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- E-health records sign onto australia.gov.au
- By James Hutchinson. IT News, March 23, 2012. "Whole-of-government sign-on system gains second member. The Department of Health and Ageing has settled on the Federal Government's single sign-on portal as the primary method of accessing consumer e-health records when they are made available later this year. Consumers who opt for a personally controlled electronic health record from July 1 will be required to link their record to their login credentials on the australia.gov.au online portal in order to access the record online..."
Added: 26 March 2012;
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- Concerns raised over e-health records for elderly
- NEHTA conceded that the system may not be "senior friendly", by Chloe Herrick (Computerworld). CIO, 23 March, 2012. "The suitability and accessibility of the Federal Government’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system for the elderly has been brought into question by a Senate committee investigating cyber safety for senior Australians. The committee voiced concerns to the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) — the body charged with the rollout of the PCEHR — around just how 'senior-friendly' and easy to use the system would be for the demographic..."
Added: 26 March 2012;
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- Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Bills 2011 - Senate Committee Report- in pdf format (243kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). The Senate - Community Affairs Legislation Committee, Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Bill 2011 [Provisions]; Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011 [Provisions]. March 2012. "On 25 November 2011, on the recommendation of the Selection of Bills Committee, the Senate referred the provisions of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Bill 2011 and the provisions of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011 to the Community Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 29 February 2012. On 28 February the Senate extended the reporting date to 13 March 2012. The reporting date was again extended to 15 March and then 19 March 2012..."
Added: 21 March 2012;
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- Senate Committee qualifies e-health approval
- By John Hilvert. IT News, March 21, 2012. "Coalition Senators seek pushback. A Senate committee examining proposed legislation for the Government's e-health records scheme has recommended the bills be passed as long as their operation is reviewed in 2014. Senators on the committee approved the bills' passage without amendment, although they accepted a range of shortcomings raised in the evidence given to the committee. The Greens sought four amendments, including around data protections. Coalition senators also raised concerns about the Government's haste to introduce Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHRs), despite the acknowleded shortcomings..."
Added: 21 March 2012;
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- NEHTA rejects claims of mismanagement
- By Josh Taylor, ZDNet Australia, March 19, 2012. "The Nation E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has issued a 21-page rebuke to claims from the Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA) that the $466.7 million e-health program is being mismanaged by the government authority. At a Senate inquiry into e-health legislation last month, MSIA made a number of claims that the specifications for the individual health identifier (IHI) — which links a person to their personally controlled e-health record — risk patient safety, because when a person changed gender or birth date information, they would be issued with a duplicate health identifier..."
Added: 19 March 2012;
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