Digital Government
Health App Disparities Persist
People who use mobile phones to look up medical information or to run applications for managing their health tend to be younger, browner, city dwellers, relative to people who don't use their cells for those purposes, a new survey finds.
Digital Government
Blumenthal: Don't Dis Minorities
The federal government's point man on health IT this week urged vendors not to create a new "digital divide" by overlooking health care providers in minority communities.
Digital Government
Patients Want Access to e-Records
The vast majority of Americans have never asked a doctor to provide them with personal health information or medical records in an electronic format, yet 70 percent of people responding to a new survey said it's important for doctors and hospitals to provide them with electronic copies of that information.
Digital Government
Health IT Hits the Big Leagues
The year 2010 was, for Major League Baseball, the year of the pitcher. Clinching that characterization was Roy Halladay, a right-hander with the Philadelphia Phillies, who followed up a perfect game during the regular season with a no-hitter in the playoffs, the second in Major League Baseball history. Off the field, however, 2010 was the year that baseball embraced electronic medical records.
Digital Government
State Uses IT to Aid Mental Health
New York has awarded $8.7 million for a project that will leverage information technology to improve mental health care in the state's Hudson Valley.
Digital Government
EHRs Certified for Meaningful Use
Another barrier to large-scale adoption of health IT began crumbling in the past week when three dozen electronic health records and their component parts earned certification for meeting meaningful use standards.
Digital Government
Improving EHR's Safety Record
The Institute of Medicine will undertake a year-long study of how best to fulfill one of the great promises of health information technology: improving patient safety.
Digital Government
Indiana U., Health IT Get Centered
Indian University's Bloomington campus is creating a new center to investigate "vexing ethical, legal and social issues" that are emerging alongside information technology that is transforming health care.
Digital Government
Health IT: Home Court Advantage
Health IT systems are critical to the success of patient-centered medical home models for health care, a new study finds.
Digital Government
EHR War: Open vs. Proprietary
When members of a federal advisory group suggested recently that the government shouldn't be in the business of designing electronic health records, Rick Jung nearly fell out of his chair.
Digital Government
IT, Friends Predict Flu Outbreaks
Using electronic health records and predictive models based on the dynamics of social networks, Harvard researchers were able to identify a group of college students who came down with the flu two weeks earlier than did a randomly selected control group. Monitoring the health of individuals whose social connections make them more vulnerable to infections diseases could serve as an effective early warning system for outbreaks, the researchers said.
Digital Government
Incentives Drive Meaningful Use
Federal financial incentives designed to spur health care organizations toward meeting meaningful use standards for electronic health records are living up to their name.
Digital Government
HHS Inoculates Rural Hospitals
Rural hospitals struggling to install electronic health records received a shot in the arm this month -- an infusion of $19.8 million in federal funding from the Health and Human Services Department.
Digital Government
Health IT Group Urges Restraint
As the government considers which "quality measures" to include in the second round of meaningful use requirements for electronic health records, members of a federal health IT policy committee are urging restraint.
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