Author: Dissent

Nancy Ferris writes in Government Health IT: The leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee joined representatives of the Business Roundtable in calling once again for passage of the Wired for Health Care Quality Act. Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the committee’s chairman, and ranking member Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) acknowledged that the bill…

Seen at the Fortuzero blog: The NHS Confidentiality campaign was set up to protect patient confidentiality and to provide a focus for patient-led opposition the government’s NHS Care Records System. This system is designed to be a huge national database of patient medical records and personal information (sometimes referred to as the NHS ’spine’) with…

Richard Pizzi of Healthcare IT News reports: Bright Health Physicians of PIH, a multi-site network of primary care and specialty physicians, plans to implement an administrative software package that will allow patients access to health management tools like a personal health record. Bright Health has inked a deal with HealthTrio LLC, a provider of software…

Bury Times Reporter writes: Thousands of patients in the borough can now access their health records online. They are among some of the first in the country to source health information via an online personal organiser known as HealthSpace. Available since 2003, the service (www.healthspace.nhs.uk) gives patients the opportunity to store personal health information including…

Bernie Monegain of Healthcare IT News reports: The Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange, which includes 24 hospitals in northern Louisiana, is going live today on an integrated open systems platform that will enable teleconsultation among the hospitals. […] The integrated platform employs a federated model that offers clinicians secure access to a portal-based view of…

Ellen Nakashima and Rick Weiss write in The Washington Post: Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), the ranking minority member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, revealed yesterday that he is among the approximately 3,000 heart patients whose medical information was potentially exposed to public scrutiny when an unencrypted government laptop was stolen in February from…