WASHINGTON – It may seem unlikely today, but within the next 10 years there will be widespread use of electronic health records across the country, the nation’s health IT chief predicted Thursday.
David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health information technology spoke at the 18th National HIPAA Summit in Washington DC, where other federal officials and stakeholders said the adoption of healthcare IT is urgent.
“History has shown that things that improve healthcare become part of what is used,” Blumenthal said. “I propose to you that in a few years doctors will all support EHRs,” he said. “Using EHRs will become a core competency for physicians. And once we’ve established that, it will be considered an absolute requisite.”
Blumenthal compared the kick-off of federal incentives for meaningful use of electronic health records in 2011 to boarding an escalator. “I think we’re going to see the upward slope of the adoption curve within a year or two; but it will be difficult to predict the slope,” he said.
Carolyn Clancy, MD, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, said the usefulness of health data will naturally drive healthcare IT adoption.
“Information is the lifeblood of medicine,” she said. “Clinicians are trained to look at patients one at a time. But, what’s missing is aggregated information.”
Andy Slavitt, CEO of Ingenix said, “One of the saddest parts of our jobs is that no one is asking the questions they once wondered about, but thought there were no answers to. Answers are available, they just aren’t getting to doctors. “
Steven Stack, an emergency physician and a member of the American Medical Association’s board of trustees said the use of HIT could be both a blessing and a curse. “Doctors don’t know how much they don’t know. They have no idea they practice differently than other practices.”
On the other hand, rules that would determine how a physician must practice should leave room to allow for varying circumstances, especially in the ER, where duplicative tests are most often the norm due to urgency and limited access to patients’ medical history.
“There’s a lot going on in the trenches that is the only thing that keeps this flawed healthcare system going day in and day out,” he said.
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Electronic health record vendor Epic has just released Haiku, an iPhone application that provides authorized users with secure access to schedules, patient lists, health summaries, test results and notes.
The app is a free download on iTunes, but the user must belong to an organization that licenses Haiku and is currently on Epic’s Summer 2009, according the the product description on iTunes.
Haiku was released on Jan. 8 with relatively little fanfare. In fact, a perusal of the Epic Web site doesn’t even mention its release. According to Mobihealthnews’ Brian Dolan, who first reported on Haiku’s appearance in the iTunes store on Wednesday, rumors about the app have been floating around for three months. That’s when the Wall Street Journal first reported an iPhone pilot project at Stanford Hospital & Clinics that enabled staff to access patient charts.
So far, there are no user reviews published on the iTunes store, nor are there any customer ratings yet.
Haiku, of course, isn’t the only health records app in the iTunes store. In fact, there are nearly 1,800 free and paid apps in the store’s medical section. Most are consumer-facing applications that cover a variety of interest ranging from emergency scanners to weight-loss programs. However, the top two free applications are Medscape and Epocrates, which have clinical uses.
Among electronic health records on the iTunes store, most are personal health records that are unaffiliated with a enterprise vendor. Allscripts, the Chicago-based EHR vendor, showed an iPhone application at HIMSS09 that has been available to clinicians via iTunes for about ten months. Allscripts Remote is currently at version 1.0.38 and has 258 ratings.
Like the Haiku offering, the free Allscripts Remote includes a patient summary, prescription list, notes, tasks and reminders for users of Allscripts EHR.
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