Now Reading: Electronic medical records and the transgender patient – to eliminate, not create, disparities
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WPATH recommends1—in concert with policy statements from the American Medical Association,2 the American Psychiatric Association,3 the American Psychological Association,4 the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,5 and the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the University of California, San Francisco6—that the healthcare needs of transgender people should be openly and properly addressed, at the [...]
Visit to a very paperless practice: Michael West, MD PhD – Washington Endocrine Clinic, Washington DC USA
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I recently reconnected with Emily Peters (@PFPresscenter), who I asked “How is that Practice Fusion EHR doing?” (she’s the Senior Director of Communications). I seem to associate Practice Fusion with San Francisco, where the company is based, but I realize that electronic health records, especially web based ones, know no bounds, so I asked if [...]
Why Dont More Hospitals Use Electronic Health Records? – Businessweek
4commentsWhy Dont More Hospitals Use Electronic Health Records? – Businessweek. When people in health care talk about the promise of digital medical records, they often point to Kaiser Permanente. The Epic system is integral to America’s largest nonprofit health maintenance organization. The Oakland-based operation’s doctors use it for everything from scheduling appointments to ordering lab [...]
Video of Booz Allen Hamilton’s Electronic Health Records 2.0 | Expert Voices
1commentElectronic Health Records 2.0 | Expert Voices Speaker Series. I was honored to be on this panel with Peter Basch, MD, L. Gordon Moore, MD, and Peter Levin (moderated by Susan Penfield – I am a fan!) where I happily pronounced that this will be the decade of the patient when it comes to EHRs [...]
Now Reading: About today’s Health Affairs study, HIT, EHRs, and impact on test ordering
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Mccormick D, Bor DH, Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. Giving Office-Based Physicians Electronic Access To Patients’ Prior Imaging And Lab Results Did Not Deter Ordering Of Tests. Health Affairs. 2012;(March):1-9. This study, being released to the public at the exact same time of this blog post, should generate healthy discussion about whether health information technology, fully [...]
#greenhealthcare part 4: Health Information Technology helps health care be green
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This is part 4 in a series on health care and climate change, or “Prevention is the new health information technology,” based on my learning prior to ACPM2012. You can see all the posts here. A goal of health information technology may be prevention, however, health information technology can support prevention by making health care [...]
Expert Voices Broadcast : Electronic Health Records 2.0: What Does the Future Hold? (I’ll be there, Walking Gallery style)
1commentExpert Voices Event Registration | Booz Allen Hamilton – As part of the work that brought together yesterday’s California Healthcare Publication on EHRs (See: Now Reading: What’s Ahead for EHRs: Experts Weigh in), Federal News Radio and presenting sponsor Booz Allen Hamilton will conduct a live webcast who’s title is the title of this post. [...]