Now that HITECH has been able to increase the adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs), the focus is on interoperability. The market has been flooded with various EMR and PM (practice management) systems but how do they communicate? The challenge of interoperability is being addressed aggressively as we go into Meaningful Use Stage 2 and Health Information Exchanges. However, according Jitesh Chawla, MD the piece that might be forgotten is maintaining patient privacy in this new digital age.
As the nation progressively implements electronic healthcare records, stakeholders have uncovered an elephant in the room – how to implement patient identity and integrity solutions. Linking an individual’s electronic health records across disparate systems, many suggest, will more likely than not require a unique patient identifier. Yet from a policy perspective, implementing this identifier has been extremely difficult. Medical banking, or the convergence of banking and heath IT systems, is spawning new ideas that could impact this difficult area. New forms of efficiency in payment processing may yield a technology platform for managing digital identity by banks that could also be used for healthcare.
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As the nation progressively implements electronic healthcare records, stakeholders have uncovered an elephant in the room – how to implement patient identity and integrity solutions. Linking an individual’s electronic health records across disparate systems, many suggest, will more likely than not require a unique patient identifier. Yet from a policy perspective, implementing this identifier has been extremely difficult. Medical banking, or the convergence of banking and heath IT systems, is spawning new ideas that could impact this difficult area. New forms of efficiency in payment processing may yield a technology platform for managing digital identity by banks that could also be used for healthcare.
Click on this link to read the rest of the article.
Then please post comments and join Dr. Jitesh Chawla for an interesting discussion on this topic.
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