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Stage 2 Helps Boost Hospitals' Reporting of Public Health Data
During a Health IT Policy Committee
meeting yesterday, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
officials announced that 72% of Stage 2-eligible hospitals have reported
on all applicable public health measures. The data show just 5% of
Stage 1-eligible hospitals, which are not required to report on those
measures, electronically submitted public health data. FierceEMR et al.Read More
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.