EVENTS

JAN

India Conference on Health 2.0 Technologies

New Delhi

JAN

Briefing on State Licensure Barriers for Telehealth

Washington, D.C.

JAN

Webinar on Use of Social Media in Health Care

Online

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FROM THE FOUNDATION

CHCF's Top Ten of 2011

CHCF's most popular publications last year looked at the benefits of using health IT to expand access and improve medical care, the costs of health care, and a host of other important issues.

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Report: Ongoing Challenges Are Impeding Progress in Health IT

A new Bipartisan Policy Center report states that although health care providers are adopting electronic health records, certain obstacles are obstructing wider health IT use. According to the report, some of the barriers to health IT use include a lack of interoperability between systems and consumer concerns about EHR accuracy, privacy and security. AP/Boston Globe et al.

Health IT Proponent Chopra Steps Down as Country's First CTO

Today, the White House announced that U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra is stepping down from his post. During his tenure, Chopra advocated for greater use of health IT and improved government transparency by making more data available online. Politico et al.

Online Kidney Donor Screening Programs Increase Efficiency

During a recent symposium, researchers discussed how the University of California-San Francisco and Vanderbilt University used Web-based tools to boost the efficiency of screening potential kidney donors and attract more donor applicants. Renal & Urology News.

ONC Announces Three Challenges for Health-Related Applications

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is seeking applications that would help individuals with disabilities access their electronic health record data, help patients schedule follow-up appointments and improve the health of commuters. Health Data Management et al.

Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of January 27, 2012

MyHealth Access Network, a Beacon Community in Oklahoma, will deploy Archimedes' clinical decision support tool. Drexel DeFord of Seattle Children's Hospital has been named chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives' board of trustees.

Stakeholders Respond to Federal Proposal To Give Patients Full Access to Their Lab Results

Kate Christensen of Kaiser Permanente, Jason DuBois of the American Clinical Laboratory Association, Lawrence Hughes of the American Hospital Association and Eva Powell of the National Partnership for Women & Families spoke with iHealthBeat about a new federal proposal to give patients full access to their laboratory results.

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DATA POINTS

How Difficult Do Physicians Say It Is To Adopt Electronic Health Records in Their Practices?

Thirty-five percent of physicians whose practice installed electronic health records reported that the implementation process was very difficult, compared with 54% who said it was somewhat difficult and 12% who said it was not difficult, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

FEATURES

Barriers Continue To Limit Patient Access to Electronic Health Data

by Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat Managing Editor

Giving patients electronic access to their health data could improve the quality and coordination of care, as well as reduce health care spending. Despite increasing patient demand for such access, barriers such as cost and physician resistance have limited progress.

PERSPECTIVES

Comparing U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems' Website Quality

by Eric Ford

As more and more consumers turn to the Internet when making decisions about their health care, Web presence is becoming increasingly important. A new study evaluates U.S. hospital and health system websites and identifies the top-performing facilities.