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Stephen B. Soumerai is a professor of ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard Medical School. Sumit R. Majumdar is an associate professor at the University of Alberta’s Department of Medicine. The following is an op-ed they wrote that appeared in yesterday’s Washington Post: […] The assumption underlying the proposed investment in health IT is that…

Speaking of EMR/EHR implementation problems, check out this blog entry from the Welcome to EMR and HIPAA blog

Sharon Woods Harris reports: Tazewell County Coroner Dennis Conover said an amendment to the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program would make investigations into questionable deaths much easier, but a national privacy advocacy group has some concerns. House Bill 3695 would amend the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program — a database of prescriptions that doctors and pharmacists use…

Austin Merritt of Software Advice is a proponent of EHR and has written a column that identifies what he sees as major reasons why EHR adoption may fail: Our concern is that the subsidies won’t change healthcare providers’ late adopter mindsets about information technology. Providers may jump at “free software” and try to avoid penalties…

Joseph Conn reports: The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., one of the nation’s premier and best-known healthcare organizations, has yet to deploy the HealthVault personal health record from Microsoft Corp., despite a big-splash publicity notice linking of the two organizations more than a year ago, according to Mayo spokesman Karl Oestreich. The Mayo Clinic, thus, is…

  Tennessee’s Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved 6-2 a proposal that would change the state constitution to allow greater restrictions on abortion, the AP/Tennessean reports. Read more in Medical News Today.