There are currently no regulations in place to protect patients from errors. There is always tension between the desire to provide a product quickly and the need for quality review to maximize safety. HIT does not receive any of the oversight afforded other medical devices. For example, currently, there are no regulatory requirements to evaluate […]
Money On February 17, 2009 President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) which includes detailed provisions concerning health care technology. The health care information technology provisions of the ARRA are referred to as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and its provisions became effective in […]
Over the course of the week, our blog has been discussing hydrocephalus, a very serious condition that can affect both newborns and babies, and have very serious consequences if left untreated. In today’s post, we’ll continue our discussion by examining some of the diagnostic tools available to physicians, as well as the procedures they can […]
There is a long list of potential benefits to EHR’s. Consult any list of the potential benefits that electronic records purportedly offer over paper records and you will find the following points being made. Electronic records allegedly: Allow access to patient information when and where it is needed Bring together all health information related to […]
Last time, our blog started exploring the potentially serious condition known as hydrocephalus, which occurs when cerebral spinal fluid is unable to drain properly and begins to pool inside the skull. Specifically, we discussed how hydrocephalus can result in swelling of the head that, if left untreated, can result in brain damage or even death […]
No. Most systems have taken the data categories of the paper systems and organized the computerized version around the categories. Physician’s orders, progress notes, nurse’s notes, radiology, laboratory reports and medication administration records are the computer “folders.” In a paper system you simply flip to the section of the chart that contains what you want […]
Scribes? A scribe is a worker who enters information into the computer as the physician examines the patient. The appeal is that the doctor can focus on the patient instead of the computer. Although this sounds reasonable, I wonder what the doctor does if he needs patient information only available in the computerized record. Is […]
All this week, our blog will discuss the potentially serious birth injury known as hydrocephalus, otherwise known as “water on the brain,” as part of our ongoing efforts to provide basic background information to the parents of newborns about conditions that can seem both frightening and altogether foreign. Before beginning, however, it’s important to reiterate […]
Last week, our blog began discussing how both medical professionals and officials with the Food and Drug Administration were growing increasingly fearful over the spread of an especially virulent type of bacteria via a medical scope used in roughly 500,000 procedures here in the U.S. every year. Unfortunately, it appears that these fears have now […]
A team of Australian researchers has recently published the results of a groundbreaking study on cerebral palsy that could potentially introduce some very real and very significant changes in the way the medical community views and even treats this condition. For those unfamiliar with cerebral palsy, it is a neurological disorder that is diagnosed at […]
