When looking at the record in the VA files, a small blue box states “Remote Data Available”, and this brings in the DOD medical records. The information includes military inpatient discharge summaries, procedures performed, outpatient encounters, patient vital signs, lab test results, notes on...
I watched part of the video, not all as it is several hours long and you might want to watch for yourself. The site requires Real Player to view the video. Dr Halamka makes a great presentation and everyone called him “the jet”, thus the title above. In speaking he addresses many topics...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 12-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, EHR, CIO, Health IT, e-prescribing, Medicaid, integration, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, CCHIT, personal health record, PHR Pilot program, PHRs
Let’s put it another way, it can’t exist without IT. Again it all comes back to running algorithms to obtain desired results. As I have mentioned before, Algorithms is one of the hottest words right now in healthcare as we all make decisions from queried results. A while back I had the opportunity...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Biotech, Pharmacogenomics, Helicos, Sequencing
Some records are already online and will follow the Continuity of Care Document format. Back in June I had posted about the pilot program with Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston which has already been up and running for disability records , also the hospital offers patients personal health records...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Health Records, VA, Kaiser Permanente, Social Security, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Department of Defense
With collaborating with Mayo Clinic here, this gives an example of how “branding” of methodologies and information technologies serve to create additional income from the licensing of such by incorporating information from Mayo as an example to include decision making support software at the point of...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Centricity, integration, GE Healthcare, hospital branding
For the Stark law to apply to allow hospitals to subsidize medical records for physicians, the software needs to be certified. Epic systems is probably best known for being the system used by Kaiser through out their networks of hospitals and clinics. Yesterday I had posted about PHRs also...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, CMS, Epic, CCHIT, Stark Law
This is a little different and the next phase with using a PHR (personal health record) to bring patients and physicians together in working with chronic disease treatments and plans. The Cleveland Clinic will enroll 400 participants and their physicians and provide devices for the patients to...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Physician, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Health Records, HealthVault, integration, Cleveland Clinic, Microsoft HealthVault, blood pressure monitors, glucose monitors, Chronic disease