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Is it Really About Quality Improvement?
By Staff Reporters
Health information technology (HIT) allows comprehensive management of medical information and its secure exchange between health care consumers and providers. Broad use of HIT has the potential to improve health care quality, prevent medical errors, increase the efficiency of care provision and reduce unnecessary health care costs, increase administrative efficiencies, decrease paperwork, expand access to affordable care, and improve population health.
Improving Patient Care
- Interoperable HIT can improve individual patient care in numerous ways, including:
- Complete, accurate, and searchable health information, available at the point of diagnosis and care, allowing for more informed decision-making to enhance the quality and reliability of health care delivery.
- More efficient and convenient delivery of care, without having to wait for the exchange of records or paperwork, and without requiring unnecessary or repetitive tests or procedures.
- Earlier diagnosis and characterization of disease, with the potential to thereby improve outcomes and reduce costs.
- Reductions in adverse events through an improved understanding of each patient’s particular medical history, potential for drug-drug interactions, or (eventually) enhanced understanding of a patient’s metabolism or even genetic profile and likelihood of a positive or potentially harmful response to a course of treatment.
- Increased efficiencies related to administrative tasks, allowing for more interaction with and transfer of information to patients, caregivers, and clinical care coordinators and monitoring of patient care.
Assessment
Link: http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1327&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=112&mode=2&in_hi_userid=11113&cached=true A Letter from David Blumenthal, MD.
Conclusion
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In other industries advances in methods and techniques for industry practice have come from innovation that provides competitive advantage, rather than from a government mandate.
I agreed with David Blumenthal in his acknowledgement that the EMR mandate is a step towards industry tranformation but a government mandate for EMR the right way to spur healthcare towards change? Im not so sure. Would it be more effective to mandate quality measures that would by design force industry players to automate using EMR? This would focus the industry on improvements in quality of healthcare rather than a pure infrastructure goal.
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Health Data Breach
Did you know that 850,000 doctors could be hit by potential data breach from an insurer’s stolen laptop?
A missing computer belonging to a BlueCross BlueShield Assn. employee also includes Social Security numbers of more than 100,000 physicians — and all the data are unencrypted.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/10/05/bisd1006.htm
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On HIEs,
Health information exchanges (HIEs) constitute about half of the vision policymakers entertain for a nation of 300 million residents; each of whose medical history is digitized in the form of electronic medical records and accessible via HIEs to physicians and patients alike no matter where they might be in the country.
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Yeah; sure thing!
Ike
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