A study by Regenstrief Institute and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs investigators provides some evidence that alert designs more closely match clinical pharmacist mental-models than the mental-models of physician and nurse practitioners in outpatient primary care and specialty clinics.
A poorly planned health IT implementation can have deleterious effects on the quality of patient care, and can even increase inpatient mortality, according to an article published in the March edition of the
American Journal of Managed Care.
Patients are demanding access to their health information now more than ever, but the healthcare industry has failed to produce products with a function that live up to consumers’ expectations–until now, according to the presenters of a Jan. 17 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) webinar. They believe that the Blue Button, an online tool that allows patients to easily access and download their health information, is different.
The migration from paper charts to EMRs offers the opportunity to provide access to patients, consultants and other caregivers. Electronic records also offer potential for greater transparency, improved efficiency and decreased costs. However, some think that sharing doctors’ notes electronically could lead to greater patient confusion and more work for the physician. Two articles published in the Dec. 20 issue of
Annals of Internal Medicine use survey data to shed light on both sides of the issue.
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have launched a collaborative project that uses magnetoencephalography to study military personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and better define the mechanism of the relationship between the two conditions.
Although the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) regional counsel offices are required to notify Office of Medical-Legal Affairs (OMLA) about all paid tort claims to initiate OMLA's review of VA practitioners involved in the claims, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that this notification does not always occur because VA lacks an internal control to help ensure that regional counsel offices comply with this requirement.
After nearly two decades of trial and error, researchers leveraged arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion MRI and physostigmine challenge to demonstrate persistent and worsening chronic hippocampal dysfunction in the brains of veterans with Gulf War syndromes, according to a study published online Sept. 13 in
Radiology.
Ronald Petersen, MD, director of the Mayo Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, was selected to chair the Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care and Services. The formation of the group was announced Aug. 23 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released a policy regarding the secure use of web-based collaboration and social media tools.
Although home-based healthcare can lower costs and boost patient satisfaction, it also brings care and caregivers into environments that weren’t designed to support healthcare, warned a recent report from the National Research Council entitled “Healthcare Comes Home: The Human Factors.”
The national strategy for health information exchange (HIE) is expanding, with more pilot programs, more participants, streamlined processes and additional interoperability initiatives in the works, said Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
Naval Medical Logistics Command has contracted with Philips Healthcare for two mobile MRI systems to be shipped to Afghanistan to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury of wounded soliders.
