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We believe however, there will soon be another very popular post, with comments on how e-patients will revolutionize healthcare!
Revolutionize Healthcare
According to Susannah Fox, by taking advantage of new online health tools, e-patients and health professionals now have the ability to create equal partnerships that enable individuals to be equipped, enabled, empowered and engaged in their health and health care decisions.
Tom Ferguson MD
At least, that that was the vision of Dr. Tom Ferguson. He coined the term e-patients and launched www.e-patients.net in 2006. At the time, Ferguson intended to upload his book-length overview of the online health revolution, “E-patients: How They Can Help Us Heal Health Care.”
Link: http://www.e-patients.net/e-Patients_White_Paper.pdf
Unfortunately however, he died a month later after losing a fifteen-year battle with multiple myeloma.
Health 2.0 Developments
Following Ferguson’s death, a group of his friends and colleagues completed the paper and adopted the blog to carry on his work, as well as their own perspectives on various Health 2.0 developments.
Assessment
We think the “E-patients” paper remains relevant in 2008, as his apostles hope to extend the findings into the future.
Wiki version: http://www.acor.org/e-patients
Conclusion
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Secure Verifications Might Spur e-Patient HIT Initiatives
I believe that if medical providers adopted a set of common practices used for validating the identity of online consumers, not only would our records be safer, it’s more likely that Personal Health Record [PHR], and related other e-patient and HIT initiatives, would become more popular with all patients, and safer.
Of course, the use of “knowledge-based authentication systems” – a security method that uses one’s knowledge of facts only they should know – to establish identity is vital. In addition, confirmed identities managed by reliable third-parties, such as financial institutions, should also be included in the security-mix.
Of course, the devil-is-in-the-details, and who among us can define a ”reliable third party”, with the daily barrage of security breaches coming at us at increasingly faster rates.
Nevertheless, hospital rules and regulations mandated by HIPAA and both the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as well as the Patriot Act, might be satisfied in this manner.
But, that’s just my opinion.
What do you think; please opine?
-Dr. David Edward Marcinko, MBA
Publisher-in-Chief
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e Doctors – Not!
I posted this on PennWell.
http://community.pennwelldentalgroup.com/forum/topic/show?id=2013420%3ATopic%3A14795
EHR salesman Ryan Levacy’s big mistake.
“This nonsense that electronic health records will save money must stop!”
– Mark Scioli, M.D.
Even though it is obvious that EHRs will never save money in dentistry, despite Dr. Robert Ahlstrom’s glowing testimony to the NCVHS (see “What difference would it make?”), one would think that physicians would be easy marks for pushy healthcare IT salesmen. One might be wrong.
On October 10, Mark Scioli, M.D., who practices at the Center for Orthopedic Surgery in Lubbock, Texas, posted a comment on ModernHealthcare.com titled, “EHRs don’t save Texas doc time, money or paper.”
http://modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081010/REG/310109987
Dr. Scioli writes: “My God, who are the idiots who have convinced our legislators that these systems will somehow save money? Improve patient safety? Hogwash! Try to update a longstanding patient’s profile in your computer … see how long it takes you, how slowed down your office will be.”
Yea! Who are those idiots?
Dr. Scioli is my hero. However, an EHR salesman named Ryan Levacy from Austin read the doc’s comment and has a different opinion. He posted a reply on ModernHealthcare.com titled “Doc who eschews EHRs ‘stuck in Stone Age.'”
http://modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081014/REG/310149990
Starting with the title, I have never before seen such authoritarian boldness coming from someone who is trying to sell a product to anyone. It took courage for Mr. Levacy to publicly blame doctors like Scioli for the failure of his EHRs, which he thinks are just swell. “To be honest, [Dr. Scioli] is one of the reasons for the slow adoption rate of electronic health records. Frankly, his attitude is the major problem. He states that the EHR did not save him time, money, paper, etc.”
If that was not enough belittling of countless potential customers, CEO Ryan Levacy ends his lecture with this blistering remark for Dr. Scioli: “Next time, he should save the hyperbole and re-examine his decisions, or just go back to what he is comfortable with-the pen and paper-and enjoy his vacation while he undercodes and loses 5% to 15% of what he could be making.”
Wow. And I thought I was nasty.
Yesterday, Dr. Scioli responded in an article titled “EHR salesmen, politicians won’t change doc’s mind.”
http://modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081021/REG/310219964
“How stuck in the past can I be? When I said these systems don’t save time, money, or paper, I speak from experience. Likewise, I say whomever thinks these systems will save money is nuts.”
– Dr. Scioli.
That’s telling him, Doc. I wish someone would have a heart-to-heart conversation with a few healthcare IT hobbyists in the American Dental Association.
-Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS
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