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Beth Israel Launches Pilot That Lets Patients Read Therapists’ Notes

Aditi Pai | MobiHealthNews | July 8, 2014

Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has launched a pilot in which 700 mental health patients receive access to their therapists’ notes on their laptop or smartphone, according to a must-read report in the New York Times...

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Beth Israel Pilot To Let Patients Add Notes To Medical Records

Aditi Pai | Mobi Health News | January 27, 2015

Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center received a $450,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund this week to develop a program called OurNotes that allows patients to contribute to their medical records...

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Deconstructing Veterans Health Care

Jon C. White | Pain Medicine News | October 25, 2014

...An estimated 80% of the 9 million veterans receiving health care at the VA are satisfied. To cull from this population a minority of dissatisfied people who report negative things about the VA is not responsible investigative reporting; it is just tabloid journalism...

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DirectTrust Delivers Interoperable Messaging To Healthcare

Alison Diana | Information Week | November 24, 2014

The nonprofit industry alliance DirectTrust hopes its voluntary accreditation and audit program, digital certificates, and relationship with the federal government will encourage more health information service providers (HISPs) to join its expanding program...

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Geisinger's Glenn Steele: OpenNotes Changing Care At A Fundamental Level

Dan Bowman | Fierce Health IT | November 5, 2014

Through initiatives like the OpenNotes project, Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System is aiming to change patient care at a fundamental level, CEO Glenn Steele said during a keynote speech at last week's College of Healthcare Information Management Executives annual fall forum in San Antonio, Texas...

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How Physicians Are Driving Data Analytics Advances In Health Care

Don Tennant | IT Business Edge | November 19, 2014

You’d think physicians would have enough to worry about, with all that medical stuff they have to deal with. But it seems that in addition to the stethoscope draped around their necks, a lot of them are wearing a data analytics hat...

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Open EHR Notes Pilot Expands After Positive Patient Response

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | May 14, 2013

After a pilot program that offered thousands of patients access to their EHR notes exceeded expectations in patient and physician satisfaction, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in New York and Geisinger Health System of Pennsylvania are widening the net. [...] Read More »

Providers 'Grappling' With Mobile Plans

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | May 14, 2014

Everybody uses mobile devices, but no one is still quite sure how to make the most of them. That, to varying degrees of more-or-lessness, is the upshot of the most recent HIMSS Analytics Mobile Technology Survey, which for the past three years has taken the pulse of an industry still coming to terms with the benefits and risks of mobile technology...

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Some U.S. Hospitals Weigh Withholding Care To Ebola Patients

Julie Steenhuysen and Sharon Begley | Reuters | October 22, 2014

The Ebola crisis is forcing the American healthcare system to consider the previously unthinkable: withholding some medical interventions because they are too dangerous to doctors and nurses and unlikely to help a patient.  U.S. hospitals have over the years come under criticism for undertaking measures that prolong dying rather than improve patients' quality of life...

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VA: More Education Needed On Blue Button Initiative

Marla Durben Hirsch | Fierce EMR | April 23, 2014

Only one-third of veterans are taking advantage of "Blue Button" capabilities to access the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' personal health record portal, My HealtheVet, but those who do so are pleased with it, according to a study published recently in the Journal of the American Informatics Association.  The Blue Button initiative enables patients to secure online access to their electronic records.

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