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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Achieving Health Care Reform -- How Physicians Can Help

Prespectives column in the NEJM


NEJM -- Achieving Health Care Reform -- How Physicians Can Help

AOA Accreditation Manual Updates

Revisions, Additions and Deletions of Standards, September 2007


http://www.hfap.org/index.cfm?PageID=acc_hfaprevman0806

eHealth Initiative Survey Finds Consensus Among HIT Stakeholders on Plans for Regional Extension Centers

Health information technology regional extension centers should be designed with local needs in mind and focus on providing implementation and technical assistance to clinicians, according to a new survey released by the eHealth Initiative.
eHealth Initiative > News

A Historic Opportunity: Wedding Health Information Technology to Care Delivery Innovation and Provider Payment Reform

if this new health IT investment program is wedded to a strong commitment to provider payment reform in forthcoming health care reform legislation and implemented specifically as an accelerator of health care delivery innovation and payment reform, then the investment program can help transform U.S. health care as we know it.
A Historic Opportunity: Wedding Health Information Technology to Care Delivery Innovation and Provider Payment Reform

Abstract | A stimulus to define informatics and health information technology

Despite the growing interest by leaders, policy makers, and others, the terminology of health information technology as well as biomedical and health informatics is poorly understood and not even agreed upon by academics and professionals in the field.
Abstract | A stimulus to define informatics and health information technology

Analysis and Evaluation of EHR Approaches

http://www.schattauer.de/index.php?id=2218&L=1&no_cache=1&artikel=24488

Consent-based Access to Core EHR Information

Methods of Information in Medicine 2009 48 2: 144-148.

The core EHR provides a generic basis that may be used as a pilot for a national patient summary. Examples of a wider use of the core EHR can be: shared individual plans to support continuity of care, summary of the patient’s contacts with health providers in different organizations, and core EHR information such as important diagnoses, allergies and contact information. Extensive electronic cooperation and communication requires that all partners adjust their documentation practices to fit with other actors’ needs. The implementation effects on future work practices will be followed by researchers.
Issue 2 2009 - Schattauer Publishers