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Transparency in Privacy
March 12, 2010 11:35 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Last month, I reported that the Office for Civil Rights had posted a list of covered entities with privacy breaches affecting more than 500 patients. The list is part of the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) new obligations under HITECH. Read More...
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Comment on Meaningful Use
March 10, 2010 10:06 AM by Lisa Algeo
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finally released the long-awaited proposed definition of meaningful use as it applies to electronic health records (EHRs), it opened up a 60-day public comment period. In the spirit of "full" disclosure, Read More...
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Military Builds EHR for White House
March 9, 2010 8:12 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Jobs I'd never want: First Doc, aka the President's primary care physician. Think about how Ford's physician must have cringed whenever he took a spill on the stairs, or the constant concern of how all that stress could be affecting Clinton's thumper. Read More...
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A Trip for the Records
March 4, 2010 9:03 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
I just got back from vacation. Not to some luxurious lodge or all-inclusive resort, no. I bussed, boated and biked around southern Nicaragua. My college roommate is in the Peace Corp. there, so another college roommate and I thought a few days off would Read More...
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EHRs Featured in Olympics Ad
February 16, 2010 10:44 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
I tend to watch the Super Bowl for the ads, so it's no surprise that while tuning in to the 2010 Olympics this weekend, a clever commercial caught my eye. GE Healthcare ran this ad about electronic health records (EHRs), showing how the technology connects Read More...
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Patients Get Records After Year-Long Wait
February 9, 2010 2:17 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
If my doctor closed up shop, I'd be miffed. If I couldn't get my records on file there, I'd probably say, the heck with ‘em. But as someone who's jumped around to a few docs over the past year, I know how helpful it is to have all your records in one Read More...
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Contest Calls for “Bad Language”
February 5, 2010 10:02 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Remember those reading comprehension tests in middle school? You'd plow through a passage and then answer questions about the plot. Q: "Why couldn't the Smiths leave for vacation?" A: "They couldn't find Buddy the dog." If only life could still be so Read More...
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Update: Fans, Critics Launch Opinions on iPad
January 29, 2010 9:18 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Less than 48 hours after Apple announced the iPad and before anyone's gotten a real hand on the thing, there are clearly defined yeas and nays. As expected, some doctors and chief information officers are cheerleading the product for its portability. Read More...
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Medical Records: Help or Hindrance in Haiti?
January 19, 2010 9:40 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Hundreds of thousands are injured, communications are scant and trauma centers are makeshift, at best. So how are medical records maintained? They're not, according to reports surfacing from Haiti. Eyewitness accounts tell of overrun hospitals resorting Read More...
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In the News
January 15, 2010 11:18 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
It's Friday--time to catch up on the news. I was hoping to share a delightful health-related story with you, but there were too many good ones, and who am I to single out? So, on to a list we go; I'll leave it up to you to pick and prune according to Read More...
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Medication Management
December 1, 2009 10:17 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
I've been thinking about personal health records (PHRs) lately (probably because of my article on PHRs going live tomorrow), and it somehow brings me to "Rent." I got on a big Broadway musical kick in junior high, and "Rent" started it all. I saw the Read More...
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PHRs Go Overseas
October 29, 2009 9:26 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
If you've been following Jay's blog, " XY Files in and MT World ," recently, you know there have been some frightening reports of medical records being sold overseas. It's enough to make you hunker down in the States and demand your records stay local. Read More...
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HIPAA be damned?
July 14, 2009 8:05 AM by Lynn Jusinski
[Editor's note: This is a guest blog by ADVANCE for Nurses editor Lyn A.E. McCafferty, who contributes to the "ADVANCE Perspective: Nurses " blog featured on the ADVANCE for Nurses Web site.] If you think the fictional Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe are bad Read More...
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How Do I Chart That?
July 6, 2009 1:13 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
[Editor's note: This is a guest blog by Bridgette Williams, whose " Transition to RN " blog is featured on the ADVANCE for Nurses Web site.] How do I chart that?" Has this question come up after caring for a challenging patient or after a crisis has occurred? Read More...
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Retail Clinic Check-up
June 25, 2009 3:30 PM by Lynn Jusinski
I'm what you might call "doctor phobic." I haven't had a check up since 2001, and that was required to get into college. After high school, I moved to the Philadelphia suburbs from quiet nook upstate in a rural area lovingly referred to as the "Polish Read More...
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