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Escaping The EHR Trap — The Future Of Health IT

Kenneth D. Mandl and Isaac S. Kohane | The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) | June 14, 2012

It is a widely accepted myth that medicine requires complex, highly specialized information-technology (IT) systems. This myth continues to justify soaring IT costs, burdensome physician workloads, and stagnation in innovation — while doctors become increasingly bound to documentation and communication products that are functionally decades behind those they use in their “civilian” life.
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For Long-Term Care, Many HIE Miles To Go

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 12, 2013

Many of the nation’s largest long-term care providers are using electronic health records and providing their residents with Internet access, but few of them are sharing health information with outside entities, creating potential gaps in the care continuum for patients. Read More »

Information Wants To Be Complex

Heather Leson | Ushahidi | June 29, 2013

Questions lead to answers that lead to more questions. Tactical Tech Info Activism Camp has a number of tracks: Documentation, Investigation, Curation, and Beautiful Troublemakers. I joined the “microscopes are us” evidence team aka Documentation. [...] Read More »

Network Glitch Brings Down Epic EMR

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | January 28, 2014

An IT network failure at a Florida health system has rendered the organization's $80 million Epic electronic medical record system down for the count. The outage, officials reported, lasted nearly two days. Read More »

Physician Outcry On EHR Functionality, Cost Will Shake The Health Information Technology Sector

Daniel R. Verdon | Medical Economics | February 10, 2014

Despite the government’s bribe of nearly $27 billion to digitize patient records, nearly 70% of physicians say electronic health record (EHR) systems have not been worth it. It’s a sobering statistic backed by newly released data from marketing and research firm MPI Group and Medical Economics that suggest nearly two-thirds of doctors would not purchase their current EHR system again because of poor functionality and high costs. Read More »

Providers, EHR Vendors Lag On Copy-Paste, Fraud Safegaurds

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 13, 2013

Hospitals, clinicians and health IT companies could be doing more to control EHR copy-and-pasting and over-documentation and prevent potential fraud, according to the HHS Inspector General. Read More »

Q&A: Unstructured Clinical Notes Just As Valuable For Analytics

Jennifer Bresnick | HealthITAnalytics | October 10, 2013

While much has been made of the need to standardize clinical data with EHRs that use templates, click boxes, and dropdowns to funnel information into pre-determined data elements, the need for such strict organization may not be top priority for long. [...] Read More »

So Much Data-Gathering, So Little Doctoring

Michael P. Jones | Los Angeles Times | November 24, 2013

The electronic medical record is the latest wrench the healthcare industry has thrown in the way of doctors just listening to their patients. Read More »

Testing 1-2-3: Open-Source Tools To Ensure Quality Applications

Neil A. Chaudhuri | GCN | December 10, 2013

When the HealthCare.gov rollout did not quite go according to plan, much was made about the absence of “testing.” There have been myriad newspaper columns, cable talk show segments, even exchanges at congressional hearings dedicated to the topic. Though the attention is gratifying to a software guy like me, implicit in the discussion is the premise that testing is a monolithic activity to be performed once development is complete. Read More »

VA Data Exchange Practices Lack Security

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | October 25, 2012

Veterans Affairs Department medical centers are not effectively or securely sharing data with research and university facilities, according to an Oct. 23 VA office of inspector general report (.pdf). Read More »

Why You Should Document Your Open Source Hardware Project

Simone Cicero | Open Electronics | May 28, 2013

It’s just few months that I’m strongly involved in the open source hardware movement and, despite I still not have a clear idea of how this community is composed. Read More »