Quote Of The Year

Timeless Quotes - Sadly The Late Paul Shetler - "Its not Your Health Record it's a Government Record Of Your Health Information"

or

H. L. Mencken - "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Saturday, April 13, 2019

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 13th April, 2019.

Here are a few I came across last week.
Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.
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Great North Care Record selects Cerner to deliver shared records

The Great North Care Record has selected Cerner to securely connect patient information across the North East and North Cumbria.
2 April 2019
Led by Newcastle Hospitals. the partnership will deliver connected care records across the region.
The Great North Care Record (GNCR), one of the second wave local health care records exemplar (LHCRE) sites, will ultimately link the region’s hospitals; mental health services; social care; GPs and community services; and ambulance services.
This announcement forms the “information exchange” element of the GNCR.
It means staff treating patients will have access to all the relevant information needed for their care, such as medications, test results, allergies, and other pre-existing conditions.
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Health care’s huge cybersecurity problem

Cyberattacks aren’t just going after your data

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The patient lying on the emergency room table in front of Paul Pugsley was having a stroke. Time was running out. Pugsley, an emergency medicine resident at Maricopa Medical Center, knew he needed to send the patient for a CT scan.
But when Pugsley looked over at the computer screen at the side of the room, he saw a pop-up message demanding bitcoin payment. A few minutes later, he was told that the same message had shut down the scanner — he’d have to help the patient without knowing whether the stroke was caused by a bleed or a clot, information that’s usually vital to the course of treatment.
After a few minutes of frantic workarounds, the patient — actually a medical test dummy — was wheeled out the room (prognosis: survival, but serious brain damage). The flashing ransom note was part of a simulation, designed to expose physicians like Pugsley to the very real threat of cyberattacks on their hospitals.
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Data Completeness Tracking System Improves EHR Data Integrity

A team of researchers used a data completeness tracking system to improve EHR data integrity for research purposes.
April 01, 2019 - Implementing a data completeness tracking system (CTX) may help to boost EHR data integrity in research, according to a recent JAMIA study by researchers affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital.
Researchers designed, implemented, and tested a CTX system across six care sites part of the Accessible Research Commons for Health (ARCH) collaborative as part of a pilot study exploring the effect of CTX on EHR data integrity.
According to AHIMA, “data integrity means that data should be complete, accurate, consistent, and up-to-date.”

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