Audit: UK’s health IT program falls short of expectations
After a damning report from the U.K.’s national audit office indicating that the National Health Service’s massive health IT program has essentially been a black hole which vacuums up far more money...
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Baby’s death illustrates how health IT can introduce complexity, error to system
Chicago Tribune reporters Judith Graham and Cynthia Dizikes explore the pitfalls of health information technology through the story of an infant boy who survived despite being born months early and...
View ArticleReport explains doctors’ reluctance to adopt EMRs
Writing for the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, Susan Jaffe spent time in the trenches to better understand how government incentives toward the adoption of electronic medical records are...
View ArticleCPI investigation details health information technology sector’s lobbying...
Writing for The Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, Josh Israel reports that, with billions of stimulus dollars still at stake, the number of health information technology lobbyists taking...
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How might retail clinics change health care delivery in your community?
I don’t routinely blog about the work of AHCJ board members (which doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read Charles Ornstein’s latest on Florida’s slow reaction to physicians who treated and prescribed drugs...
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Essential component of reform will require more staff, training
When we think about the growing demands health reform will place on community health centers (assuming that we are thinking about community health centers at all – and we should be) we tend to think...
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Electronic records raise privacy concerns
On Bloomberg’s Tech Blog, Jordan Peterson has been regularly hammering away and exposing, piece by piece, the privacy concerns that could arise from widespread adoption of electronic medical records....
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How close are we to meeting the promise of electronic health records?
Photo: Carla K. JohnsonA panel of experts discuss health information technology at an AHCJ Chicago chapter event on March 3 in Chicago. From left: Dr. Arnold “Ned” Wagner Jr., chief medical information...
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Covering cybersecurity as breaking news and a long-term health care story
Photo: Marcie Casas via Flickr Cyberattacks on hospitals and health insurers have become a regular occurrence – and breaking news in communities where the breaches take place. A new tip sheet on health...
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Report: Health care cybersecurity unprepared and under threat
Photo by jfcherry via Flickr The first rule of health care cybersecurity is you don’t talk about health care cybersecurity. In reporting on cybersecurity threats, journalists will likely encounter...
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