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EHR Case Studies In the wake of Hurricane Sandy: Health IT 1, Paper Records 0
Brett Coughlin | November 21, 2012
“When the levee breaks I’ll have no place to stay.” Led Zeppelin
Many people in New York and New Jersey have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Maybe you saw the report about 62-year-old Staten Island grandmother Phyllis Puglia, whose home was leveled by Hurricane Sandy but was able to begin to rebuild her life after the disaster.
EHR Case Studies Benefits of Electronic Health Records Are Seen In the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
Denise Anderson | November 16, 2012
Dr. Firpo Guerrero talks about preparing for Hurricane Sandy, implementing EHRs, and serving three generations of patients
When Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast, especially New York and New Jersey,
Health Innovation Winners of the Patient Safety Reporting System Challenge
Adam Wong | November 15, 2012
Over the past several weeks, many of us at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and Food and Drug Administration have been evaluating the submissions for the Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge. KBCore of Houston was selected the winner of the challenge—and the recipient of the $50,000 prize—because the company’s patient safety reporting system best fit the criteria of the challenge to find and reduce the risks associated with patient care.
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Beacon Communities HIE Implementation Connects Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Facilities
Jim Younkin | November 13, 2012
The health information team at the Keystone Beacon Community has developed a new health information exchange (HIE) implementation tool that will allow any skilled nursing facility to share a patient’s information inexpensively and securely—with or without an electronic health record. Thanks to this innovative approach, previously inaccessible information collected by critical long-term and post- acute care facilities can be added to a patient’s health record, enabling the patient’s care team to work better together.
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FACA, Federal Advisory Committees, Meaningful Use Meeting Patient Engagement Objectives of Meaningful Use Stage 2: Credentialing Patients
Deven McGraw | November 8, 2012
**UPDATE** The Privacy and Security Tiger Team of the Health IT Policy Committee, and the Privacy and Security Working Group of the Health IT Standards Committee, will host a web hearing on credentialing patients on November 29, 2012 from 12pm to 4pm.
Giving patients access to their health information—and providing them with tools to electronically communicate with their clinical care team—is critical to making health care more patient-centered.