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.

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

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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.

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