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The Top 10 HIE Pitfalls
healttcareinformatics.com: Experts
at a Blueprint Healthcare IT discussion last week warned that the Field
of Dreams strategy of "build it and they will come" won't necessarily
work when it comes to physician adoption of a health information
exchange (HIE). Lack of physician usage of an HIE portal was the No. 1
pitfall when it came to HIEs that was mentioned in the webinar, "Top Ten
Ways an HIE Can Go Wrong." 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.