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Telehealth & EHR integration Poised for Growth in 2010 ... But, Challenges Remain
Colleagues,
According to a number of recent reports ... from Computer World, FierceMobileHealthcare, ZDNet Healthcare and Accenture ... telehealth and the related integration with EHRs are poised for significant growth over the next several years...
... With the imminent passage of the Healthcare Reform bill and the previous passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment ("Stimulus) Act last February, 2010 is the year that is poised to trigger the en masse adoption of electronic health records by healthcare providers ...
... This is based not only on policy changes, but on technological advances that can now allow the monitoring of patient health, wirelessly, in real time, 24/7, and increasingly irregardless of geography...
... the attached Accenture report points out that consumer health electronics, predictive modeling and low-cost Internet connectivity have reached a stage that they can enable better decision making that, in turn, can transform chronic disease management which drives the bulk of healthcare costs ....
.. The challenge, and opportunity as noted by FierceMobileHealthcare, is that EHRs can not demonstrate their full potential until medical devices are seamlessly and automatically capable of populating patient records and triggering clinical decision support ...
... Thus paradoxically, as Dana Blankenhorn notes in his excellent blog ZDNet Healthcare, this sets up a scenario in which 2010 becomes a make or break year for health IT ...
... Dana believes that a key development to watch, will be the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator) Health Information Technology $235 million "Beacon Community" program. This is where a central effort will be committed to concretely change medical practice in a way that measurably saves money, in a manner that can be replicated, and then can be embedded in the rest of the system as a whole ...
... These are massive challenges and opportunities for the advanced medical technology community. We will have to be on top of our collective games in 2010. Franky, the compelling value proposition for health IT is still largely unproven. That proof needs to emerge in concrete, credible fashion in 2010 ... What we predict will be a pivotal year in the history of the transformation of American Healthcare...
ENJOY!
CC
According to a number of recent reports ... from Computer World, FierceMobileHealthcare, ZDNet Healthcare and Accenture ... telehealth and the related integration with EHRs are poised for significant growth over the next several years...
... With the imminent passage of the Healthcare Reform bill and the previous passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment ("Stimulus) Act last February, 2010 is the year that is poised to trigger the en masse adoption of electronic health records by healthcare providers ...
... This is based not only on policy changes, but on technological advances that can now allow the monitoring of patient health, wirelessly, in real time, 24/7, and increasingly irregardless of geography...
... the attached Accenture report points out that consumer health electronics, predictive modeling and low-cost Internet connectivity have reached a stage that they can enable better decision making that, in turn, can transform chronic disease management which drives the bulk of healthcare costs ....
.. The challenge, and opportunity as noted by FierceMobileHealthcare, is that EHRs can not demonstrate their full potential until medical devices are seamlessly and automatically capable of populating patient records and triggering clinical decision support ...
... Thus paradoxically, as Dana Blankenhorn notes in his excellent blog ZDNet Healthcare, this sets up a scenario in which 2010 becomes a make or break year for health IT ...
... Dana believes that a key development to watch, will be the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator) Health Information Technology $235 million "Beacon Community" program. This is where a central effort will be committed to concretely change medical practice in a way that measurably saves money, in a manner that can be replicated, and then can be embedded in the rest of the system as a whole ...
... These are massive challenges and opportunities for the advanced medical technology community. We will have to be on top of our collective games in 2010. Franky, the compelling value proposition for health IT is still largely unproven. That proof needs to emerge in concrete, credible fashion in 2010 ... What we predict will be a pivotal year in the history of the transformation of American Healthcare...
ENJOY!
CC
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