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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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