Kenneth J. Terry, Medscape
“Edward Rippel, MD, a solo internist in Hamden, Connecticut, has signed up nearly half of his patients to participate in a Web portal, linked to his eClinicalWorks electronic health record (EHR), that gives them access to their health records and allows them to message him securely.
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Rajiv Leventhal, Healthcare Informatics
“Health Level Seven International (HL7), the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, has announced the release of a Continuity of Care Document (CCD) to Blue Button Transform Tool.
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Technology for Doctors Online
“Patients in Nova Scotia will soon be able to log on to a website to get test results, view medical records and book doctors’ appointments. A new pilot project announced by the provincial Health Department will allow about 3,000 patients and their doctors in the Halifax area to communicate through a web portal instead of meeting in a doctor’s office.
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Mark van Dorresteijn, Zorgvisie
“Het Landelijke Schakelpunt is op veel punten veiliger dan de huidige systemen. Dat zegt minister Edith Schippers van VWS tijdens een debat vandaag over het de digitale uitwisseling van patiëntgegevens.
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Mark van Dorresteijn, Zorgvisie
“De uitwisseling van medische patiëntgegevens via het Landelijk Schakelpunt (LSP) kan vanaf januari 2013 alleen nog met toestemming van de patiënt. Dat is volgens de eisen die het College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens (CBP) aan het LSP stelt. Dat stelt de Vereniging van Zorgaanbieders voor Zorgcommunicatie (VZVZ).
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, Healthcare Info Security
“A federal advisory panel will recommend that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT quickly develop and disseminate best practices for verifying the identify of patients who access their records through a provider’s web portal.
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Peter Dawson, The Guardian
“Two weeks ago one of our patients, a 59-year-old woman with a diagnosis of vascular dementia and epilepsy, living alone with the daily support of carers, had been treated in hospital after an apparent fall. She was back home, but required further supplies of her new medications.
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SUN News
“You can’t opt out of electronic health records in Manitoba, but you can request your personal health information be hidden.
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Joel Schectman, Wall Street Journal
“Healthcare CIOs are struggling to balance the needs to doctors and patients as they work out the governance of electronic medical records. While healthcare providers need access to information on a fast and flexible basis, patient privacy must also be preserved.
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Broadcast Newsroom
“Orion Health, a leader in electronic health records (EHR) and healthcare integration solutions has implemented its Orion Health Clinical Portal to eHealth in the province of Saskatchewan. The portal is enabling healthcare providers to access patient laboratory results with greater speed and accuracy anywhere in the province.
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Practice Business
“A guide to personal health records (PHRs) released by the the Patient Information Forum (PiF) has highlighted the challenges that practices face in reaching the government’s target of giving every patient access to their GP records by 2015.
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Fred Trotter, The Health Care Blog
“The notion of ownership is inadequate for health information. For instance, no one has an absolute right to destroy health information. But we all understand what it means to own an automobile: You can drive the car you own into a tree or into the ocean if you want to.
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Luke Gale, CMIO
“An informed patient is a healthy patient. Having access to personal health information (PHI) helps patients manage their health better, make informed decisions, improve their likelihood of positive outcomes and contributes to lowering system-wide healthcare costs.
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Arundhati Parmar, MedCity News
“Sure the Internet had its roots with U.S. military researchers. But it’s not often that innovative ideas come from the government.
An exception to that in the healthcare industry appears to be the Blue Button program, and how the private sector is embracing it.
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Chelsea Conaboy, The Boston Globe
“Liz Kowalczyk writes in today’s Globe about how the issue of protecting people’s privacy as electronic health records are more widely used is complicated by mental health information.
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Esante.gouv.fr
“Au-delà de la coordination qu’il permet entre professionnels de santé, le Dossier Médical Personnel donne au patient un droit de regard inédit sur sa santé. En cela, il est le symbole le plus visible d’une nouvelle conception du patient.
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Josh Seidman, e-patients.net
“Numerous times in the past two years this blog and this Society have contributed significantly to the Meaningful Use regulations that have substantially changed the landscape, the outlook, for patients who want to be engaged in their care. SPM Policy Chair David Harlow has led several projects to compile members’ views into a unified response. (Search his name on this site to see his many contributions.)
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Neil Versel, Meaningful Health IT News
“Lest anyone forget — including the American Hospital Association, which wants to take 30 days post-discharge to supply copies of medical records to patients — HIPAA explicitly gives patients the right to access their own records. This is not new. The HIPAA privacy rules have been in force since 2002. Yet, far too many patients have no idea of this right and far too many providers don’t inform patients of this right or do what they can to prevent access.
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Kyle Murphy, EHR Intelligence
“It’s an iconic scene from Gladiator where Maximus turns to the Coliseum crowd and asks them, “Are you not entertained?” The reason I remember it (other than its appearance on some of my favorite hip hop albums) is because of two recent surveys that show general dissatisfaction with the healthcare industry among providers and patients — “Are you not satisfied?”
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Brian Ahier, Government Health IT
“I was honored to participate in the Patient Access to Health Data Summit at White House on June 4, 2012 as a kick off event to the the Health Data Initiative Forum. The meeting was a moderated discussion among an invited group of participants including developers, health plans, providers, EHR vendors, VCs, government representatives, patients and other experts.
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