A room
in the Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness has a fleet of five
iPads locked to a bar, each one loaded with all the apps the health
system has vetted and approved. The O Bar is staffed by a technology
specialist that can help patients find out what’s available and help
teach them to download and use the available apps.
“The apps are out there and people are going to get them,” Ochsner’s Chief Clinical Transformation Officer Richard Milani told H&HN Magazine last
year. “The smart thing for us to do is get our hands around what we
think are pretty good apps and make them more helpful to patients.” 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.