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New Awareness Study
[By Staff Writers]
Kaiser Permanente, through independent market research company StrategyOne, conducted a nationwide survey between May 8-11, 2008 to gauge the awareness and perceptions of electronic health records.
Survey Findings:
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38 percent have used their insurance company’s online tools to learn more about their care, up from 29 percent in 2007.
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47 percent had a preference for doctors who use EHRs and 61 percent had a preference for insurance companies who employed EHRs.
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51 percent agreed that health IT should be a top priority for the next president to ensure that all Americans have access to their own personal medical records [PMRs] electronically.
Assessment
Americans continue to have concerns about privacy issues. Assurance is required, from all who store personal medical data, that patient information is secure.
Source: Kaiser Permanente, June 12, 2008.
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Ending e-RX Barriers,
Did you know that the American Medical Association’s [AMA] House of Delegates [HODs] just adopted a resolution calling for an end to government-imposed barriers to electronic prescribing?
Yep! The resolution called for the removal of all federal Medicare and state Medicaid requirements mandating the use of paper prescription forms for certain drugs – that the AMA initiate discussions with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] to allow e-prescribing of schedule 2 drugs – and that Medicare or Medicaid payments not be contingent upon adoption of e-prescribing.
Modern Physician also reported on June 18, 2008, that the resolution also called on the AMA to work with federal and private entities to ensure universal acceptance by pharmacies of electronically transmitted prescriptions.
Sam
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‘E-health – Grand challenges and Legal Concerns’
The use of ICT (eHealth) in health care is a promising tool to improve the safety of patient care, improve the quality and efficiency of health care, and therefore strengthening health systems’ sustainability.
The use of eHealth applications (electronic health records, telemedicine, ePrescription) and mobile health applications (or medical ‘apps’) is rapidly growing in most Member States and on a global level.
Legal challenges in the eHealth domain address a variety of issues such as safeguarding privacy, liability issues, consent, eroding confidentiality, access to medical files, patient empowerment, and the removal of EU internal market barriers ‘to read all the benefits from a fully mature and interoperable eHealth system in Europe’ as promoted by the cross-border healthcare Directive.
Understanding these legal limitations is an important step towards developing a large-scale eHealth system. Solving legal and regulatory barriers may contribute to standardize the electronic storage and exchange of patient information, increase eHealth interoperability, facilitate a more sustainable eHealth system, and most important, making eHealth applications more accessible for both health professionals and patients.
We aim to explore a wide range of (legal) concerns on eHealth and eHealth applications, discuss current approaches, pitfalls and potential solutions.
Therefore, we welcome both academics (law, medicine, social sciences, ICT, etc.) and health professionals with different backgrounds exchanging experiences to overcome various barriers in eHealth applications.
Click here for more information or visit our website: http://www.erasmusobservatoryonhealthlaw.nl/en/
Met vriendelijke groet.
Yours sincerely,
Toby Hollen LLM
[Institute of Health Policy and Management]
Erasmus Observatory on Health Law
Erasmus University Rotterdam
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