american medical informatics news from FierceHealthIT

Home-based telemonitoring of patients with chronic diseases has a great deal of potential, according to a new study published this month in a high-profile health IT journal. To conduct the research, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Canadian researchers reviewed more than 65 studies published in the U.S. and Europe. The studies looked at home-based management of chronic pulmonary conditions, cardiac diseases, diabetes and hypertension …

A recent study of physician EHR adoption has found that not only price, but also concerns about productivity loss and technical issues are holding back adoption of EHRs within individual physician practices. The study, which was published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, surveyed 1,345 Massachusetts physicians to learn what was holding back EHRs adoption in their practices. One the one hand, the EHR adoption rate for individual physicians …

The American Medical Informatics Association last week issued a report that predicts efforts to access and use health care data for purposes unrelated to patient care are quite likely to grow as EHR adoption increases. Among other things, the report calls for a national framework for secondary uses of health information. As defined by the report, secondary use of health information includes: marketing and other commercial uses; payment; provider certification or accreditation; public …