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| Electronic Health Records: More Funding, More Systems, More Data. Then what? |
| Posted 2.16.2010 9:12:16 PM by Steve Lazarus, MPH, MBA with 0 comment(s) |
Electronic Health Records: More Funding = More Systems = More Data |
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| Words, Terms, Definitions |
| Posted 12.24.2009 3:37:36 PM by Deborah Kohn with 0 comment(s) |
| People throw around so many words, terms, synonyms, and acronyms. It’s a wonder any of us can keep track of them. For example, for years people have been using the term “document imaging system” to incorrectly describe an electronic document management (EDM) system. (KLAS tries to get around this problem by referring to this type of system as a “document... |
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| What exactly is HIT? |
| Posted 12.15.2009 10:51:50 AM by Charlene Marietti with 1 comment(s) |
| Help me out here, please. We discuss healthcare information technology (HIT) and we all know what we mean--or do we?
Does it include hardware? How about generic routers, printers, RFID tags, and barcode scanners?
Does it include IT services? And how about consultants?
And what about the growing range of computer-based biomedical and diagnostic... |
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| Who's listening? |
| Posted 12.8.2009 1:03:00 PM by Charlene Marietti with 1 comment(s) |
| In every single survey we conduct for the Healthcare Informatics Research Series, staff members emerge as a major source of problems. For the most part, it's related to some type of change. Whatever the change, be it as small as moving supplies or a major adoption of technology and there will surely be a reaction. The blow is softened if staff members are involved early and often.... |
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| The Times Are A Changing - FAST |
| Posted 12.5.2009 6:23:51 PM by Deborah Kohn with 2 comment(s) |
My dear mother, of blessed memory, never understood what her youngest daughter did for a living, especially after having graduated from a comprehensive, four-year baccalaureate program in "Medical Record SCIENCE." Frankly, most Americans have no clue what, today, are known as Health Information Management (HIM) professionals. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)... |
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| Time to move on |
| Posted 12.1.2009 8:09:59 AM by Charlene Marietti with 0 comment(s) |
| It saves money. No, it doesn't. It improves quality of care. Not much. It promotes wellness. Prove it.
Frankly, I'm tired of the discussions about the value--or not--of EHR adoption.
Facts: The healthcare industry is severely lagging all other contemporary market sectors in the adoption and use of IT. Most personal health data is trapped in paper charts lodged in giant file... |
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| Just the facts, mam |
| Posted 11.17.2009 2:40:03 PM by Charlene Marietti with 2 comment(s) |
| There seems to be plenty of evidence. There is evidence-based medicine, evidence-based guidelines, evidence-based decision-support, and evidence-based design. But I wonder: I if clinicians didn't practice medicine and architects didn't build healthcare facilities based on their understanding of the most effective practices, building materials, and workflows (i.e., evidence) what were they... |
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| Got masks? |
| Posted 11.10.2009 1:52:49 PM by Charlene Marietti with 0 comment(s) |
| In a prior blog, I questioned the readiness of healthcare facilities for the onslaught of H1N1 cases, primarily based on research conducted among Healthcare Informatics panelists and reported in "Trends in Disaster Preparedness & Recovery Technologies." Only 31 percent of healthcare providers rated their organization as having a comprehensive plan to deal with a disease outbreak or... |
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| Expanded circles of interest and expertise |
| Posted 11.10.2009 12:57:49 PM by Charlene Marietti with 0 comment(s) |
Expertise in healthcare information technology is often considered to be a confined to a relatively small circle of cognoscenti headed by CIOs and populated with an assortment of professionals with IT-related titles. And, indeed, this group is charged with supporting patient care by making systems work.But close at hand is another group of professionals--architects, designers,... |
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| r u prepared for H1N1? |
| Posted 10.29.2009 10:48:54 AM by Charlene Marietti with 0 comment(s) |
| A major concern among healthcare educators and reformers is the low rate of health literacy in this country. It's a real issue--even among the well-educated. The H1N1 epidemic currently under way has brought that fact home to me as discussions of few other health issues can.
Most people do not appreciate the seriousness of influenza. They haven't lived through an epidemic nor have they lost... |
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