Promoting Quality & Safety in Oncology Electronic Health Records
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In the last 48 hours, CMS released the final rules governing the first stage of MU and CCHIT launched its oncology workgroup. Things are heating up this July.
The ARRA regulations for the incentive program for implementation of meaningful use of HIT were released as 3 documents. The one of greatest interest to oncologists is the Final Rule providing guidance to providers on what they neeed to do to qualfy for the incentive dollars ($44,000 over 5 years per eligible provider par
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Big day in the health IT world today – CMS announced the final regulations for “meaningful use” of EHR’s, to allow providers and hospitals to receive Federal incentive dollars for adopting technology under the HITECH Act. ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) also released the “Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications,
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), part of the US. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently published an interesting report entitled Electronic H
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I am leading a Meet the Professor session at the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago next week. The title of my talk is Electronic/Digital Resources in Oncology: Value vs. Distraction. It is Sunday, June 6, Room E451b, 11:30 am – 12:45 pm (ticket required).
In my prepared presentation, which will last about 30 minutes, I am primarily going to be covering Web 2.0 and social media in oncolog
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An important paper was published online this week in the journal Pediatrics demonstrating for the first time that there was a decrease in hospital-wide mortality after the implementation of a commercial computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system. The research took place at Stanford at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The investigators compared mortality before and after the implementation of an EHR from Cerner. Note that the adult hospital at Stanford uses Epic. The auth
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John Cox invited me to his Texas Oncology Practice at the Methodist Charlton Cancer Center in Dallas, to talk about multidisciplinary breast cancer clinics. After lunch, which was attended by most of the practice’s oncologists, John showed me his iKnowmed EHR. The iKnowmed product has changed since we first used it in October, 2000 at Wils
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There are open source EMR / EHR and Practice management systems that are industry standard, and encompass a wide range of features including Scheduling, EMR, Real-time Lab Results, Electronic Lab Ordering, and a lot more. These EMR systems support all the necessary functions to run a medical clinic large and small : Patient registration, Scheduling, Billing, Complete electronic charting, Prescription with drug-drug interaction, Chronic disease management, Disease Registry, laboratory results,
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An article by Schiff and Bates, writing in the March 25th New England Journal of Medicine, here caught my attention. They make some suggestions to answer the question, "Can electronic clinical documentation help prevent diagnostic errors?" They start with the premise that "electronic prescribing appears to reduce the rate of medication errors, but the other benefits of electronic records are less clear," and
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I arranged to spend last Thursday afternoon with Peter Yu, at his El Camino Real office of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF). PAMF has largely implemented EPIC as their EHR, and as Peter and I had an ASCO-related conference call scheduled, I was going to take the call with him and observe his EHR in action. The call was canceled, but he had three patients whom he had set up to see.
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