- New York health network loses another IT official following probe into EHR implementation (modernhealthcare.com)
New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. has lost its second health IT leader amid an investigation into a multiyear, multimillion dollar installation of an electronic health-record system.Former Chief Technology Officer Paul Contino was terminated three weeks ago,.. In February, his boss, former Chief Information Officer Bert Robles, who had been managing the project, also was fired, …Two other administrators and seven consultants have also left the project,.. New York Post, citing unnamed sources, said the installation is off target by 18 months…
- Community hospitals replacing EHRs (healthcareitnews.com)
More than half unhappy with usability…nearly 20 percent of community hospitals polled for a recent report are "actively looking to replace" their electronic health record vendors…Smaller hospitals are being tasked with more physician documentation for MU, and the extra time required, disrupted workflows and frustrating EHR functionality means many providers' patience is wearing thin…
- Making IT services for medicine regulation in Europe more efficient (ema.europa.eu)
European Medicines Agency Management Board endorsed the European Union Telematics Strategy and Implementation Roadmap 2015-2017 …provides a concrete outline of the EU Telematics strategy and its implementation … cover areas such as governance structure implementation, clinical trials regulation, management and processing of electronic submissions for marketing-authorisation applications …safety information on human and veterinary medicinal products, data integration and pharmacovigilance…
- Interoperability done in 10 years? (healthcareitnews.com)
Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information technology puts interoperability front and center this week, comes a survey that shows healthcare professionals are skeptical it can be achieved in 10 years…"Interoperability in 10 years is unquestionably a worthy goal, but our experience has shown that this is a complex area and providers need secure universal solutions in the interim,"...
- TruMedicines launches Kickstarter for Rx adherence app (drugstorenews.com)
Big data and pharmaceutical tracking and authentication company TruMedicines… launched a 40-day Kickstarter campaign for a smartphone app that promotes medication safety…app will help stymy issues responsible for over a million deaths every year and billions of dollars in additional healthcare costs — counterfeit medication and adherence…inability to figure out whether a drug is legitimate or not was a problem that needed fixing...
- Purdue Pharma unveils opioid abuse prevention website (drugstorenews.com)Team Against Opioid Abuse (teamagainstopioidabuse.com)
Purdue Pharma is launching a new effort to prevent opioid abuse…announced its new Team Against Opioid Abuse website that’s meant to instruct people about how to reduce opioid abuse and misuse and inform about abuse-deterrent technologies….importance of preventing abuse of prescription drugs and outlines FDA guidelines on abuse-deterrent labeling…includes information on how to identify opioid formulations with abuse-deterrent properties for healthcare professionals…
- How Bioinformatics Could Find The Next Breakthrough Cancer Drug (forbes.com)Automated profiling of individual cell–cell interactions from high-throughput time-lapse imaging microscopy in nanowell grids (TIMING) (bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org)
Immunotherapy is being hailed as the future of cancer treatment. Harnessing the body’s own immune system to attack and kill cancer cells,..surging in the biotech and pharmaceutical space…identifying more high-performing immune cells… Engineers..with physicians… have invented new software that can pinpoint tens of thousands – and even hundreds of thousands – of these cells…
- State Accidentally Mails Out Private Health Information To The Wrong Patients (denver.cbslocal.com)
Protected health information from the (Colorado) Department of Health Care Policy and Financing was unintentionally mailed to the wrong people,… the letters were mailed between May 25 and July 5. A resident who received a letter not intended for that resident notified county workers about the error...
- Top 4 technologies for community pharmacists to watch (drugtopics.modernmedicine.com)
future of community pharmacy is a high-tech, connected world, where teleprescribing is common and pharmacists share information with patients via smart lenses. At least that is the vision of Dan Benamoz, RPh,..Pharmacy Development Services, a pharmacist training, consulting, and mentoring firm.
- Information sharing via "smart" lens
- Telepharmacy
- Pharmacogenomics
- Radio frequency technology
- EHRs can increase docs’ medical malpractice liability (fierceemr.com)
Electronic health records can increase a provider's malpractice exposure,… EHRs initially were envisioned to reduce medical errors, but surmises that hasn't yet occurred…EHRs are causing or contributing to malpractice problems… found to create new, unanticipated legal problems…are changing the nature of medical malpractice lawsuits.
- Computer glitches and design flaws, such as a restrictive drop down menu, which can cause medical errors
- The "transparency" of EHRs themselves, which makes it harder to hide mistakes or sloppy work habits
- The increased documentation requirements and resulting desire to use templates and other shortcuts, which can lead to discrepancies in the EHR
- The inability of EHRs to catch some errors, such as dosage mistakes