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NewsHHS agenda looks to IT for self-management, patient engagement
HHS' newest 10-year health goals for the country, Healthy People 2020, focus on prevention, shared decisionmaking between patients and providers, personalized self-management of health conditions Read more...
Still no consensus on patient use of Internet for health information
"I think patients are savvy enough to realize everything they read on the Internet is not the gospel and they should take it with a grain of salt," Charlotte, N.C., internist Dr. Marshall Silverman Read more...
Report: Widespread HIT could save $261B over 10 years
The stimulus-fueled expansion of health IT could save as much as $261 billion over the next 10 years and help form the basis of an interoperable, patient-centered health system that could yield more Read more...
Health IT, data glut altering patient-physician relationship
Even with the vast majority of medical records still stored in paper files, health IT already has had a profound effect on the ways in which people seek and receive care, thanks to social networking, Read more...
McKesson CIO: Health reform impossible without better information
Expanding access to care and holding down insurance costs are nice, but, as we've been saying for months, there can't be real healthcare reform in America without addressing the problems of Read more...
Promoting PHR use: Is it a good idea?Over time, the American Health Information Management Association has thrown its weight behind the development of personal health records, calling them "a key element in the U.S. transformation to a safe, more efficient, consumer-driven healthcare system." But at least one professional critic, the founder of the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, has taken exception to this stance, arguing that there are gaping holes in PHR … Read more...Case study: IT use keeps solo doc afloatDr. Gordon Moore was unhappy with the high volume of patients he was required to see as a staff physician in a hospital-owned medical practice--30 plus a day, each of whom only got 15 minutes of his time. Unwilling to keep that pace up, in 2001 Moore took out a $15,000 business loan and opened his own one-man practice. He's not alone. While no one has exact statistics, a growing number of doctors are following his model, building tiny but high-tech practices that allow them to work on … Read more...Consumer-driven healthcare shifts MD tech needsDoctors will do better with consumer-driven healthcare if they boost health IT investment now, according to a new report from health and IT consulting firm First Consulting Group. Not surprisingly, the report concludes that EMR systems will be critical to meeting savvy consumers' information needs. But in the CDH world, a good internal EMR network isn't enough. Physicians will need to store and exchange … Read more...Group promotes "medical banking" standardsA new group of healthcare industry stakeholders, including the American Hospital Association, HIMSS and the Automotive Industry Action Group, have come together to work on the underpinnings of a future "medical banking" network. Their idea, which is gaining a lot of traction in vendor circles, is that it's important to begin linking up the various elements needed to move money through a consumer-driven healthcare system quickly. Members of the group are developing a reference architecture … Read more... |
