Personal Health Record Use by Adolescents
John D. Halamka, MedCity News
“In response to many questions about PHR use by adolescents, I asked Fabienne Bourgeois, the expert at Children’s Hospital Boston, to write this guest blog post –
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Are Patients From Mars and Health Care Professionals from Venus? – Part 1
Michael Seres, beingapatient
“It has been a little while I know. Sometimes though the patient in me rears its ugly head again and I have to get out of blogger mode and in to being a bowel transplant patient. That is kind of a long winded apology but The Churchill Hospital, Oxford has seem a little too much of me of late.
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The Role of Patient Portals in the Future of Healthcare
Nicole Spector, HealthTechZone
“As we get increasingly digital and Internet-savvy, more and more healthcare patient portals are cropping up, and thus, medical patients now have greater access to their health information than ever before. Patients can also be hands-on in supplying, questioning and correcting their data, which can help improve the accuracy of the data.
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What’s e-health and what does it mean for you?
Candace Y.A. Montague
“If you visit a doctor’s office or hospital and you usually see stacks of manila folders with labels on them and loads of paper inside. When a doctor wants to research more about a patient, it can take a while to sort through the file and decipher handwritten notes.
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Electronic health records key to patient care quality improvement
Hospital Healthcare
“A new Accenture (NYSE:ACN) survey reveals that almost two thirds of doctors surveyed in England (65%) believe that the introduction of electronic health records has improved the quality of patient care.
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Two thirds of doctors support introduction of electronic health records
PublicTechnology
“Technology company Accenture has unveiled its latest research which has found that almost two thirds of doctors in England believe that the introduction of electronic health records has improved the quality of patient care.
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Why don’t first responders have instant access to EHRs?
Jennifer Bresnick, EHR Intelligence
“Unfortunately, it often takes tragedies like this week’s Boston bombing to raise debate about how to respond to emergencies where an injured patient’s life may hinge on how many seconds it takes for them to receive medical care. In a trauma situation where a patient may be experiencing terror and confusion, or may be unconscious, paramedics can’t rely on them to remember what medications they’re allergic to.
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Patient EMR Access May Be The Biggest Cultural Shift
Anne Zieger, Hospital EMR and EHR
“As most readers probably know, U.S. doctors are skittish about giving patients full access to their medical records. That fact was underscored by a recent Accenture study, which concluded that 65 percent of doctors think patients should only have limited access, and 4 percent feel patients should have no access.
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Patient access to complex chronic disease records on the Internet
Bartlett C et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 12(1)
Background
Access to medical records on the Internet has been reported to be acceptable and popular with patients, although most published evaluations have been of primary care or office-based practice. We tested the feasibility and acceptability of making unscreened results and data from a complex chronic disease pathway (renal medicine) available to patients over the Internet in a project involving more than half of renal units in the UK.
Methods
Content and presentation of the Renal PatientView (RPV) system was developed with patient groups. It was designed to receive information from multiple local information systems and to require minimal extra work in units. After piloting in 4 centres in 2005 it was made available more widely. Opinions were sought from both patients who enrolled and from those who did not in a paper survey, and from staff in an electronic survey. Anonymous data on enrolments and usage were extracted from the webserver.
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Online Health Records for Patients Will Still Require Oversight
Jan Cottingham, Arkansas Business
“The incident helps illustrate a basic tenet about the move in the U.S. toward electronic health records: The patient is ultimately responsible for the accuracy and completeness of his health records. An analogy may be helpful here: Being able to pay your credit card online may ease the chore, but you’re still responsible for ensuring your account is credited.
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Patients Like Online Health Records Access, Study Says
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“When patients at the VA Medical Center in Portland, Ore., were given access to key parts of their electronic health records such as visit notes, lab results and discharge summaries, they believed that the ability to view their records helped them in many ways.
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Patient Experiences With Full Electronic Access to Health Records and Clinical Notes Through the My HealtheVet Personal Health Record Pilot: Qualitative Study
Woods SS et al, J. Med. Internet Res., 15(3)
BACKGROUND:
Full sharing of the electronic health record with patients has been identified as an important opportunity to engage patients in their health and health care. The My HealtheVet Pilot, the initial personal health record of the US Department of Veterans Affairs, allowed patients and their delegates to view and download content in their electronic health record, including clinical notes, laboratory tests, and imaging reports.
OBJECTIVE:
A qualitative study with purposeful sampling sought to examine patients’ views and experiences with reading their health records, including their clinical notes, online.
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Removing the red tape from patient records
Jim Golden, Forbes
“Consumers have become accustomed to using smart phones for self-managing many aspects of their daily lives but still lack access to their own healthcare data. While many doctors capture volumes of patient data in their own repositories, it’s rare that patients ever have access to this information, separating them from their personal data.
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Physicians prefer a shielded EHR view for patients
Bernie Monegain, PhysBizTech
“Even as policymakers are pushing patient engagement, a new survey signals doctors may not be ready to relinquish control of their patients’ medical record.
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EHR Survey: Most Docs Say Full Patient Access Not a Good Idea
Healthcare Innovation Center
“A new Accenture survey shows most U.S.-based doctors (82 percent) want patients to actively participate in their own healthcare by updating their electronic health records. However, only a third of physicians surveyed (31 percent) believe their patients should have access to their full health record. These findings were consistent among 3,700 doctors surveyed by Accenture in eight countries: Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States.
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Physicians would like patients to update their EHR, but full access? Notsomuch
Stephanie Baum, MedCity News
“More than half of physicians say allowing patients to update their electronic health records, through say, a patient portal, would be a good way to get consumers more engaged in their healthcare, which could help crack that great big $289 billion problem of adherence. And yet, only 31 percent say they should have full access to it and 20 percent of the 3,700 physicians surveyed across eight countries actually provide online access to their patient chart or medical summary. Why?
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Most U.S. Doctors Believe Patients Should Update Electronic Health Record
The Financial
“A new Accenture survey shows that most U.S. doctors surveyed (82 percent) want patients to actively participate in their own healthcare by updating their electronic health records. However, only a third of physicians (31 percent) believe a patient should have full access to his or her own record, 65 percent believe patients should have limited access and 4 percent say they should have no access.
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GPs not there on records access – survey
e-Health Insider
“The overwhelming majority of GP practices are not ready to implement the government’s flagship NHS IT pledge to give patients online access to their records by 2015.
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Postbedrijf maakt Zwitsers EPD
Zorgmarkt
“Ook in Zwitserland is men druk met het elektronisch patiëntendossier. Daar wordt de techniek ontwikkeld door Swiss Post. Het systeem, Vivates, wordt in het kanton Genève geïntroduceerd, na een succesvolle pilot in vier gemeenten. Ook het kanton Tessin gaat het patiëntendossier gebruiken en start dit voorjaar een pilot voor de discipline oncologie. Andere kantons geven aan eveneens geïnteresseerd te zijn.
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What the new HIPAA means for digital health access
Jonah Comstock, mobihealthnews
“HIPAA is a valve, not a blockage.” At least, that’s what Office of Civil Rights (OCR) director Leon Rodriguez has said about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
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