Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a national survey on July 18 on the use of electronic health records by office-based physicians. The results should help fuel the fire over any lasting debate as to whether stimulus package funding used to incentivize the use of EHRs was well spent.
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the substance of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a collective sigh can be heard, of relief by some and frustration by others, but certainly of avoided tumult.
"The true number of military personnel injured in Iraq is in the hundreds of thousands – maybe even more than half a million – if you just go a bit beyond the Pentagon's narrowly-tailored definition of 'wounded in action," writes Dan Froomkin, deputy editor of Niemanwatchdog.org in a December 2011 piece on the site.
Stoltenberg Consulting has found a way to put more health IT experts in the field with a new junior consultant program.
Wolfgang Ward enlisted with the United States Marine Corps fresh from high school in 2001. The September 11 attacks occurred while he was at boot camp. Within two years, he was deployed to Northern Iraq.
David Blumenthal, MD, who was the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011, has been appointed president of the Commonwealth Fund. He will succeed Karen Davis, effective Jan. 1, 2013.
Lorraine Fernandes, Global Healthcare Industry Ambassador for IBM, discusses developments in data analytics and personalized treatment, focusing particularly on what small physician practices and primary care doctors should be aware of - including the role of IBM's Watson and the future of healthcare delivery.
When Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, thinks about health information exchange (HIE), he's also thinking about grammar and parts of speech.
For the first time ever, the United States Olympic Committee will use electronic medical records rather than paper charts to manage care for more that 700 athletes at the summer games.
"Knowledge is key," the saying goes. But sometimes getting to that knowledge – as quickly as possible – can be a challenge for clinicians.