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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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- Territory to Lead E-Health Records for Indigenous Australians
- Joint Release - The Hon Nicola Roxon MP, Minister for Health and Ageing; The Hon Warren Snowdon MP, Minister for Indigenous Health, Member for Lingiari; Trish Crossin, Senator for the Northern Territory. Media Release, 29 March 2011. "Territorians will be one of the first groups of Australians to have access to e-health records thanks to a new national health reform e-health project announced today. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians will benefit from e-health records as they will reduce the chance of medical errors and save patients from having to repeat their health history every time they visit a new doctor. Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon announced today that the Northern Territory Department of Health and Families has been selected as one of nine new e-health lead implementation sites nationally for the Gillard Government's $467 million national personally controlled electronic health records (PCEHR) project..."
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- Electronic health records planned
- by Kate Hagan. The Age, March 30, 2011. "Up to half a million patients, including the chronically ill, will be the first to receive electronic health records under Labor's radical plan to overhaul the way medical data is kept. Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon yesterday announced $55 million for nine projects, to be run by various groups including pharmacists, general practitioners and hospitals. They include a Geelong project for doctors to view all medicines prescribed and dispensed to a particular patient..."
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- E-health advocacy groups decries government secrecy
- Consumer consultation workshops no resolution for continued vagueness, by Chloe Herrick. Computerworld, 8 March, 2011. "An e-health consumer advocacy group has joined a growing choir of those dissatisfied with the lack of communication from lead agencies surrounding implementation of the Federal Government's $467 million personally controlled electronic health records (PCEHR) project initiative..."
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- Canada 'lags' despite $1.6 billion ehealth investment
- by Charles Wright. eHealth Central, March 1, 2011. "'Despite Canada Health Infoway's investment of almost $1.6 billion toward more than 280 e-health projects in the past 10 years, Canada continues to lag behind other Western countries in adopting a system of electronic medical records. As of 2009, only 36 per cent of Canadian physicians were using electronic medical records, as compared with more than 90% of physicians in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Netherlands.' That somewhat stark judgment sets the scenario for a qualitative study of Canada’s experience with the implementation of electronic health information technology in the journal of the Canadian Medical Association ..."
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- NEHTA anticipates e-health record clarity
- Looming release of draft concept of operations will begin wider discussion over e-health record, by James Hutchinson. Computerworld, 25 February, 2011. "The Federal Government's lead e-health agency is anxiously anticipating clarity around the $467 million personally-controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) program, with hopes the imminent public release of a draft concept of operations will catalyse greater cooperation from the wider industry..."
Added: 28 February 2011;
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- Public kept in the dark on e-health record system
- by Karen Dearne. Australian IT, February 25, 2011. "The draft concept of operations for the $467 million personally controlled e-health record contains a "wealth of information" but is not yet ready to be shared with the general public, the federal Health department has told a Senate estimates hearing..."
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- NSW ambos trialling electronic records
- By Darren Pauli, ZDNet Australia, February 17, 2011. "The NSW Ambulance Service is deploying an electronic patient record system, which has irked paramedics already using it in other states. The Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System (VACIS), so called because it was designed and first used by that state, has also been introduced into Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland. It involves a series of tough laptops deployed into ambulances for paramedics to send information on a patient's condition to hospitals..."
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- Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Should Remove Barriers and Improve Efforts to Meet Their Common System Needs - GAO-11-265
- Government Accountability Office, February 2, 2011. "The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operate two of the nation's largest health care systems. To do so, both departments rely on electronic health record systems to create, maintain, and manage patient health information. DOD and VA are currently undertaking initiatives to modernize their respective systems, jointly establish the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), and develop joint information technology (IT) capabilities for the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC). In light of these efforts, GAO was asked to (1) identify any barriers that DOD and VA face in modernizing their electronic health record systems to jointly address their common health care business needs, and (2) identify lessons learned from DOD's and VA's efforts to jointly develop VLER and to meet the health care information needs for the FHCC. To do this, GAO analyzed departmental reviews and other documentation and interviewed DOD and VA officials..."
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- HHS tests exchanging personal medical data over Internet
- Open-source project used volunteers to prepare data exchange standards, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, February 9, 2011. "The Health and Human Services Department's open-source Direct Project development program for secure health data exchange over the Internet has started operating in two states, Minnesota and Rhode Island, and will launch demonstration projects in six more states, officials have announced..."
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- New portal gives NHS Trusts real-time view of patient data
- Posted by Lucie Mitchell. Public Technology, 2 February 2011. "NHS Trusts will gain real-time access to patient data from multiple back-end systems, using a solution from IBM and Carefx..."
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- Digital Agenda: Commission signs eHealth agreement with US Department of Health
- European Commission, Press Release, IP/10/1744, Brussels, 17 December 2010. "Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Washington to promote a common approach on the interoperability of electronic health records and on education programmes for information technology and health professionals. Common standards and interoperability stand to create huge growth opportunities for the eHealth industry as well as having a positive impact on the safety and quality of care. A skilled health IT workforce is necessary to make the benefits of eHealth services available to patients. This agreement aims to boost the potential of the eHealth market for EU companies wishing to do business in the US and vice versa. Promoting the use of eHealth technologies, with a view to improving the quality of health care, reducing medical costs and fostering independent living, including in remote places, is key objective of the Digital Agenda for Europe (see IP/10/581, MEMO/10/199 and MEMO/10/200)..."
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- Hong Kong starts second stage EHR engagement
- By Jianggan Li. FutureGov, 20 December 2010. "Hong Kong Government has launched the second stage of its Electronic Health Record (eHR) Engagement Initiative (EEI), with two briefing sessions held recently to invite the IT sector in the territory to submit partnership proposals for eHR partnership..."
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- DC seeks citizen input (YOUR input) on health IT policy
- by e-Patient Dave. e-Patients.net, November 4, 2010. "Josh Seidman is in charge of Meaningful Use at the Department of Health and Human Services. (Meaningful Use refers to the guidelines for how providers should use electronic medical records.) He wants input from us – that's you.
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- Proving the value of an EHR
- by Charles Wright. eHealth Central, December 1, 2010. "If medical researchers are still looking for compelling evidence of the value of electronic health records, they might want to have a chat with Shane Solomon. The former chief executive of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, now heading KPMG's healthcare division, Solomon would have given the most jaded financial controller a frisson of excitement as he pointed out the benefits of Hong Kong's Hospital Admission Risk Reduction Program for the Elderly (HAARPE) at today’s session of the Melbourne ehealth conference..."
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- Roxon unveils e-health record iPhone app
- By AAP and Josh Taylor. ZDNet Australia, November 30, 2010. "At the launch of the government's two-day e-health conference in Melbourne, Health Minister Nicola Roxon unveiled an iPhone application that will enable doctors to access a patient's medical history through e-health records..."
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