Tag: meaningful-use
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Physician Performance Improvement Charting for PQRI and Other PFP Programs
Although CMS does not currently require physicians in the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative to have electronic health records, nearly 75 percent of American Academy of Family Physicians members are already using EHRs, estimates Dr. Bruce Bagley, AAFP medical director of quality improvement. CMS’ inclusion of two structural measures for 2008, one for EHRs and the…
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McLeod Health’s Initiatives Aim to Eliminate Adverse Drug Events
Leanne Huminski, chief nursing officer, McLeod Regional Medical Center, comments on capitalizing on computer technology, McLeod’s initiatives for eliminating adverse drug events (ADEs) and the role information technology is playing in reducing ADEs. Huminski, Lenore Blank, Michelle Gilbert and Donna Isgett will describe how their organizations are implementing perfect care processes in heart failure and…
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Pursuing Perfection at Hackensack University Medical Center
Collaborative patient care models that empower the primary care nurse to communicate patient needs to physicians has not only improved patient care and outcomes but also fostered a cultural change at Hackensack University Medical Center, explains Lenore Blank, a nurse practitioner and administrative manager of HUMC’s heart failure and pulmonary hypertension team. Her team is…
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Healthways’ Telephonic Care Support for Health Coaching
Both science and human nature played a part in the success of Healthways’ telephonic care support for diabetes patients, explains John Harris, senior vice president of the Health Support Division of Healthways. Even though the program is from Healthways’ care management side, he believes that the same results would apply to a coaching effort, since…
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How Implementing an Electronic Health Record Caused a Business Transformation for North Fulton Family Practice
Implementing an electronic health record (EHR) in 1998 has transformed the way the four-location North Fulton Family Practice in Georgia does business. Dr. Jim Morrow, North Fulton’s vice president and chief information officer, described how the EHR has enhanced physician-patient “face time”and care management and improved efficiency, productivity and profitability at the 20-provider practice. He…
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Successful Hospital Implementation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Dr. Joel Diamond, medical director of Diamond, Fera and Associates, explained how concentrating on people rather than IT and engaging the medical leadership and the rest of the staff at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for successful hospital implementation of an electronic health record and how these lessons can be applied to a physician…
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Data Protection and the Promotion of Health Research
This paper challenges the argument that data protection legislation may harm research by unduly restricting the flow of personal health information. I unpack the assumption that privacy is an individual right that must give way to research as a social good, and explore how data protection laws facilitate the flow of information for research purposes.…
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Commentary: Data Protection and the Promotion of Health Research: If the Laws Are Not the Problem, Then What Is?
Data protection laws offer such broad exemptions for research that research ethics boards and data custodians lack sufficient guidance as to when it may be acceptable to release data to researchers without consent. The result: idiosyncratic institutional policies that create major challenges for researchers conducting multi-centred studies. The 2005 CIHR Best Practices for Protecting Privacy…
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Commentary: Data Protection and the Promotion of Health Research
The paper by Valerie Steeves provides a well-presented series of arguments concerning research access to personal health information. Her perspective is clear, and her voice often challenges some of the stereotypic attitudes and values she attributes to the perspective of research interests when confronted with privacy protection policies and practices.
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Keeping Seniors As Healthy As Possible in Their Homes and Communities
Diane Flanders, director of coordinated care systems for MassHealth, provided an overview of the unique partnership that is designed to keep its seniors as well as possible, and in their homes and communities for as long as possible. Sarah Keenan, clinical liaison with Medica and Flanders described how to create a coordinated care management approach…