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Social Media Takes a More Prominent Role in Care
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The use of social media to engage patients and their caregivers has become a top priority at St. Louis (Mo.) Children’s Hospital, which, according to marketing manager Kay Franks, has helped the organization track its referrals and increased the active participation of patients’ parents and caregivers.
Nearly all U.S. doctors are now on social media – amednews.com
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The number of physicians using sites such as Facebook and Twitter has grown so quickly that Gabriel Bosslet, MD, realized the moment his study on physician social media use appeared in June that it already was out of date.
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Center for Studying Health System Change
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After-hours care coordinated with a patient’s usual primary care provider is facilitated by consideration of patient demand, provider capacity, a shared electronic health record, systematic notification procedures and a broader practice approach to improving primary care access and continuity. Payer support is important to increasing patients’ access to after-hours care.
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The Use of Patient Pictures and Verification Screens to Reduce Computerized Provider Order Entry Errors
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The incorporation of patient pictures within a computerized order entry verification process is an effective strategy for reducing the risk that erroneous placement of orders in a patient’s EMR will result in unintended care being provided to an incorrect patient.
EMR and Healthcare Quality
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The rationale behind the inception of EMR is quality healthcare. Through automation of medical records, the healthcare community seeks to establish the use of dynamic health information. Analyzing issues and derive plausible solutions. The portability of health information would not only enhance medical response time, but would also ensure best care for the patient.
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Physician Focus: The evolution of health IT
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Technology has increased productivity, reduced costs and led to better services and products for most industries and professions, but health care is just beginning to catch up.
Information technology –– the use of computers, other electronic devices and software designed to support clinical decisions –– is now becoming a pervasive and critical part of health care delivery for the benefit of both physicians and patients.
Diagnostic technology, such as MRIs (magnetic resonance imaging) and CAT scans (computed axial tomography) have been around for a while and are wonderful tools to help us look inside the human body and diagnose and pinpoint conditions.
Technology in healthcare, however, has now progressed to allow for such advancements as electronic health records (EHRs), electronic prescribing and even telemedicine –– tools that can improve care, reduce medical errors, help to reduce costs and put patient information at the provider’s fingertips.
This new area of health information technology, or health IT, is considered so important today that the Federal government is providing incentive payments to health providers to adopt these new tools, and health policy makers, licensing organizations and even state governments are starting to establish competency requirements.
Health IT is still developing, however, and some physicians, particularly those in small practices, are wrestling with its inception: the cost of introducing it into a practice can be daunting, and learning how to use it and transferring patient information can be time-consuming.
Further, the lack of interoperability –– the ability of systems used by different hospitals or different physician practices to talk to each other –– is often nonexistent.
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Cloud-Based EHRs, Telemed Come To Rural Colorado – Healthcare – Electronic Medical Records – Informationweek
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Colorado Telehealth Network’s broadband connectivity offers access to cloud-based EHRs, telemedicine, and a statewide information exchange.
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EHR training often rushed, overwhelming – FierceEMR
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FierceEMR: “Improper and rushed training has long been a bugaboo in the implementation of EHRs.” The article gives one expert’s advice on how that problem can be remedied.
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Johns Hopkins research — EHR Quality Measurement In Its Infancy
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Johns Hopkins research describes some of the other electronic performance measures that could be used with EHRs: Quality performance measures based on data in electronic health records are still in their infancy and have yet to tap many of the unique features of EHRs, according to a new study in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care. The study, which was re-published in Medscape, provides a conceptual framework for defining levels of electronic quality measures, or e-QMs.
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The Emerging IP Law of Health Information
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The law of health information is neither more “open” nor more “closed” than information law generally. Free access should be dictated in areas of extreme personal or societal need; in other cases, it may be right to force high payments, either ex ante via taxes, or ex post via high prices, from those with the ability to pay. Privacy should play a far more important role here than it does in the usual Wild West of internet data collection and processing. But once data is truly anonymized, the research imperative for access is perhaps more pressing than in any other area of law (except, perhaps, national security.).
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