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The copy and paste function of an electronic health record is "one of the most egregious dangers of electronic charting," according to a recent editorial in the American Journal of Medicine.
The Health IT Policy Committee endorsed recommendations for the creation of a national database to which healthcare providers can confidentially report patient data errors and unsafe conditions they encounter using electronic health records. Reporting of safety issues would become part of Stage 2 of meaningful use requirements.
Increasing the use of quality measurement as part of electronic health records systems is critical to achieving meaningful use of health information technology, the American College of Physicians reported in a paper released Thursday at the 129,000-member organization's annual meeting in Toronto.
Henry Ford Hospital researchers took electronic medical records onto the marathon route last year to show that the technology could make it easier to care for runners. The researchers presented the results recently at the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine's annual meeting in Mexico.
IBM has signed a business process services agreement with athenahealth, the provider of Web-based business services for physician practices.
The Great Ormond Street Hospital for children has recently announced the deployment of a new communications and results reporting solution aimed at improving patient test ordering.
Brandeis University has announced that it will offer a new online master's degree in health and medical informatics – part of its effort to help create the 50,000 new IT jobs necessary to usher the healthcare system "fully into the digital age."
Health IT Policy Committee recommends establishing patient safety oversight systems, EHR criteria.
When Regina Holliday needed her husband's electronic health record to help her care for him after a terminal cancer diagnosis it didn't arrive for days, was incorrect, and outdated when he was transferred to another provider. She later used the correct record to care for him until his death.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a three-year, $72 million contract to Harris Corp. to support the expansion of the VA's Consolidated Patient Account Center across the country.