Record Access
Internet, un espacio cada vez más necesario para la Sanidad
David Rodríguez Carenas, Diario Médico
“Aunque con excepciones que confirman la regla, como el poco seguimiento del piloto de cita previa on-line en Cantabria, es un hecho que Sanidad e internet van cada vez más unidos. O, más bien, que la Sanidad ya no se concibe como tal sin la presencia de la red. Así demuestra cada estudio que ha analizado el uso de internet para buscar información relativa a la salud. Si en 2003 un 28,7 por ciento de los internautas usaron la red con ese propósito, en 2005 la proporción ascendió al 29,7 por ciento, según datos de Red. es, entidad pública encargada de consolidar el desarrollo de la sociedad de la información en España.
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29 January 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Spain | EHR: EHR, EHR Spain | Tags: Access, Health Information, Internet, Patient, Search
Inviting patients to read their doctors’ notes: a quasi-experimental study and a look ahead
Delbanco T et al, Annals of internal medicine, 157(7)
BACKGROUND
Little information exists about what primary care physicians (PCPs) and patients experience if patients are invited to read their doctors’ office notes.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the effect on doctors and patients of facilitating patient access to visit notes over secure Internet
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15 January 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: RA Research, Record Access, Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Communication, Confidentiality, GP, Internet, Patient, Physician-Patient Relationship, Primary Care
Computers are meaningless in health care without computable data
Margalit Gur-Arie, KevinMD
“If this were a business concerned with bottom lines, cash flows and sustainability, this would be a good time to begin planning one of those posh executive retreats to evaluate current strategy. People would be feverishly working on pulling data for PowerPoint presentations, summarizing market research and deciding whether to select the vegetarian meal or not.
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14 January 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | Tags: Access, Adherence, Billing, GP, Patient, Patient-clinician communication
Where Meaningful Use Stage 2 Is Most Likely to Trip You Up
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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11 January 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Health Information Exchange, Meaningful Use, Patient, Portal
Download My Data: HL7 Releases Tool to Allow Patients to View Their Personal Health Information
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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9 January 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | Tags: Access, CCD, HL7, Patient, Personal Health Information
Nova Scotia patients to manage health records online
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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27 December 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Access, Online, Patient
Schippers: LSP is veiliger dan huidige systemen
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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21 December 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Access, Consent, Health Information Exchange, Infrastructure, Patient, Security
Geen uitwisseling dossier zonder toestemming patiënt
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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20 December 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Consent, GP, Health Information Exchange, Infrastructure, Patient, pharmacist
Patient ID Best Practices Needed
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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20 December 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, De-identification, Meaningful Use, Patient, Portal
Better access to patient records is essential to make the NHS a safer place
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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18 December 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Medication, Patient Safety
GP contract to reward records access
Rebecca Todd, EHI Primary Care
“The Government’s proposed GP contract changes will include new payments for GPs who offer patients online access to their health records.
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11 December 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Record Access | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Appointments, Benefits, e-prescribing, Physicians
Manitobans able to request eChart health records be hidden: Ombudsman
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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8 December 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Access
Online access leads to increased usage
Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“A US study has found that patients with online access to their health records and email communication with their doctors use significantly more health services than those without access.
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5 December 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access
Association of Online Patient Access to Clinicians and Medical Records With Use of Clinical Services
Palen TE et al, JAMA. 2012 Nov 21;308(19)
Context
Prior studies suggest that providing patients with online access to health records and e-mail communication with physicians may substitute for traditional health care services.
Objective
To assess health care utilization by both users and nonusers of online access to health records before and after initiation of MyHealthManager (MHM), a patient online access system.
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5 December 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Patients, RA Research, Record Access, Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access
Healthcare CIOs Must Walk Fine Line Between Doctor Access and Patient Privacy
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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16 August 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Patient, Physicians, Privacy
Saskatchewan’s EHR to Improve Access to Lab Results
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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16 August 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Access, integration, lab results, Portal
Guide exults virtues of patient access to GP records
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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14 July 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, GP, Patient, phr
Who Owns Patient Data?
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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13 July 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data, Ownership
ONC: Access to personal health information getting easier, barriers remain
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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12 July 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Patient, Personal Health Information, phr
VA’s innovative personal health record program finds private sector takers
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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6 July 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Health Information Exchange, phr
