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ALSO NOTED: Medicare launches SC-based PHR pilot; Mayo Clinic deploys wireless network; and much more...

May 12, 2008 — 6:59am ET
> Medicare announced that it was launching a South Carolina-based pilot project encouraging Medicare beneficiaries to use a PHR. Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Another med mal insurer offers EMR discount; VA offers health data accessibility grants; and much more...

January 28, 2008 — 7:59am ET
> Another malpractice insurer has begun offering premium credits to physicians who use EMRs, saying that... Read more...

AMA gives mixed review to RFID tagging

July 1, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

A report from the American Medical Association has taken a fairly ambivalent stance toward the use of implanted RFID technology to track patients.

On the one hand, the report notes, the technology could make it easier to identify patients--which would speed access to their medical data--and would also improve coordination of care and make medical processes more efficient. On the other hand, AMA authors worried the implanted devices might migrate under the skin, potentially causing …

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AMA develops EMR security guidelines

June 24, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

The American Medical Association has developed some proposed guidelines intended to make sure patient access to EMR systems is secure and appropriate. The guidelines, while not breaking any major ground from an IT perspective, could give practices some much-needed confidence that they're doing the right thing. The AMA's guidelines recommend that:

  • Interactions with EMR systems should take place over a secure, encrypted network.
  • Physicians should authenticate patient …
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Study: EMRs alone can't improve diabetes care

June 10, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

EMRs have long been held out as a key tool in the fight to better manage chronic disease. Given their capacity to review records automatically--and let physicians know when standard steps weren't taken--the idea seemed like a no-brainer. In reality, though, EMRs in and of themselves may not help much when it comes to improving diabetes care, a new study suggests. The study, which was published in the Annals of Family Medicine, looked the care diabetics got in 50 primary care …

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E-prescribing apps still dogged by problems

May 28, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Despite a great deal of happy talk by regulators, legislators and vendors, doctors are still not that enthusiastic about e-prescribing. According to one study by the Center for Studying Health System Change, most doctors who switch to e-prescribing wouldn't go back to paper prescribing. But getting there is difficult, observers say. Rolling out e-prescribing technology is still costly and difficult. To date, few if any e-prescribing applications have proven simple to install, researchers …

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Health IT not playing key role in P4P

May 6, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

In theory, payers include smart use of technology in their standards for handing out pay-for-performance bonuses. In reality, however, they aren't paying that much attention to IT adoption, according to a new study by analyst firm Health Industry Insights. The study, which surveyed 57 U.S. health plans with P4P programs planned or underway, found that when provided with a list of seven factors needed for P4P success, payers ranked physician IT adoption near the bottom, at …

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Bill would pay for physician health IT costs

April 22, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

A new federal bill is now under consideration which would help physician practices afford the cost of implementing more sophisticated health IT tools. Interestingly, the bill was shaped not solely by Congressional staffers, but also by direct input from a vendor, Carrollton, GA-based Greenway Medical Technologies, which makes software integrating EMR and practice management functions. The bill, the National Health Information Incentive Act, would offer physicians grants, loans and tax …

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NYC to distribute EMR at no cost

April 22, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

In a move heralded as a first of its kind, this week New York City officials announced plans to give free EMR technology to medical practices for whom 30 percent or more of their patient encounters are Medicaid-insured or uninsured. City officials say that they're the first state or large local government they're aware of which has tried this strategy (though states are arguably moving in this direction with e-prescribing technology). The city will distribute the software to about 1,500 …

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Editor's Corner

March 18, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

This week California became one of several states taking a forceful public stand promoting health data exchange. Like several states, California is responding to HHS secretary Michael Leavitt's call for national HIT …

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