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Integrated Electronic Health Records
Could subtle psychological cues lead to better medical decision-making?
Mike Miliard, Managing Editor
COLUMBIA, MO | February 17, 2014
Article link: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ehr-redesign-could-reduce-unneeded-tests
When it comes to America’s healthcare costs, spiraling ever upward, one of the main culprits is unnecessary testing.
Victoria Shaffer
Some 130 oft-overused screenings and treatments should be curtailed, according to the two-dozen organizations affiliated with the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s “Choosing Wisely” campaign.
Indeed, as Scientfic American pointed out in its article about that initiative, the Instiute of Medicine estimates that $750 billion – three-quarters of a trillion dollars! – was spent on unnecessary services and excessive administrative costs in 2009.
“We are, I hope, at a turning point in American health care where we’re realizing you want to have the right health care, not just more health care,” Baylor College of Medicine pediatrics professor Virginia Moyer told the magazine.
Well, not quite yet. Many thousands of docs are all too happy to order excessive lab work and imaging – and defensive medicine may be a big reason why. As Doug Campos-Outcalt, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based family physician, told Kaiser Health News, “Nobody ever gets sued for ordering unnecessary tests.”
Or what if that wasn’t the reason? What if reducing these excesses is a bit easier to explain, if a bit more deeply rooted?
Victoria Shaffer, assistant professor of health sciences in the University of Missouri School of Health Professions, has been working on research related to the psychological roots of how physicians make decisions.
With a degree in quantitative psychology, Shaffer says she’s long been interested in studying human judgement in decision-making.
Specifically, she’s keen on what makes clinical decisions tick – those made by both doctors and patients in the exam room. Her research is “essentially taking a broad range of academic research in psychology and applying it to specific judgements from the physician and patient perspective,” she says.
One of Shaffer’s recent projects has shed some interesting light on what drives physicians to order tests – and suggests that the reasons may be more subconscious than we may have thought.
In a study first published in Health Psychology, Shaffer, working with Adam Probst, a human factors engineer at Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health, and Raymond Chan, MD, a pediatrician at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo., took a look at how the lab tests from which a doctor could choose are presented in electronic medical systems.
Shaffer and her team studied how docs picked lab tests using three different designs of order set lists. The first was an opt-in version with no tests pre-selected, as is found on most electronic health records. The second was an opt-out version, in which physicians had to de-select lab tests that weren’t clinically relevant. The third had just a few tests pre-selected, based on experts’ recommendations.
Article link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2014/02/24/electronic-medical-record/
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It isn’t often that a doctor is mistaken about how many feet his patient has.
But that’s the mistake this young doctor made by relying too heavily on an erroneous electronic medical record. According to Dr. Richard Gunderman:
An intern recently presented a newly admitted patient on morning rounds, reporting that the patient was “status post BKA (below the knee amputation).” “How do you know?” the attending physician inquired. “It has been noted on each of the patient’s prior three discharge notes,” replied the intern, looking up from his computer screen. “Okay,” responded the attending physician. “Let’s go see the patient.”
When the team arrived in the patient’s room, they made a surprising discovery. The patient had two feet and ten toes. Where did the history of BKA come from? It turned out that four hospitalizations ago, the voice recognition dictation system had misunderstood DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis) as BKA, and none of the physicians who reviewed the chart had detected the error. It had now become a permanent part of the electronic medical record — as if written in stone.
Fortunately, this error could be easily corrected. But the intern’s mistake highlights a growing problem with government-mandated electronic medical records. Doctors are spending more time in front of computer screens and less time with actual patients. This affects how doctors interact with patients. Inevitably, errors creep into their patients’ charts. Prudent patients should be aware of this trend and take steps to ensure the accuracy of their medical records.
The HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act of 2009 essentially mandates that physicians and hospitals adopt electronic records by 2014, or face penalties in the form of reduced Medicare/Medicaid payments.
At first glance, adopting electronic medical records (EMRs) would seem a no-brainer for doctors and hospitals. After all, electronic records are the norm for many successful businesses, assisting with sales, inventory, and billing. In theory, electronic medical records should allow doctors to work more efficiently. But in practice, many doctors are finding that EMRs hinder their ability to practice good medicine.
A recent study from Northwestern University found that, “physicians with [EMRs] in their exam rooms spend one-third of their time looking at computer screens, compared with physicians who use paper charts who only spent about 9% of their time looking at them.” According to Enid Montague, PhD, first author of the study, “When doctors spend that much time looking at the computer, it can be difficult for patients to get their attention… It’s likely that the ability to listen, problem-solve and think creatively is not optimal when physicians’ eyes are glued to the screen.”
New York Times health writer Dr. Pauline Chen similarly described that young doctors in training are so busy filling out obligatory electronic forms, they spend only 8 minutes per patient each day. As a result, they cut corners:
When finally in a room with patients, they try to [rush through interviews] by limiting or eliminating altogether gestures like sitting down to talk, posing open-ended questions, encouraging family discussions or even fully introducing themselves.
As Dr. Chen noted, the bad habits they learn in training will carry over to when they become independent practitioners.
(Some doctors are coping with this problem by hiring “scribes” — additional clerical people to enter data into the computer, while the physician converses with the patient. But this requires physicians or hospitals to hire additional personnel. As the New York Times noted, “In most industries, automation leads to increased efficiency, even employee layoffs. In health care, it seems, the computer has created the need for an extra human in the exam room.” The “solution” of scribes doesn’t eliminate the inefficiency caused by electronic medical records — it merely shifts the problem elsewhere.)
Electronic medical record (courtesy Wikimedia Commons).
One source of error in electronic medical records is when doctors spend insufficient time with patients. According to Dr. Elizabeth Toll, another source of errors is perverse payment incentives coupled with physician sloppiness. In her words, “The records are full of lies”:
The EMR was designed to demonstrate the pieces of the record that you have to attend to in order to bill at a certain level. If you just enter a few questions and you only enter part of the exam, and you only add medicines and you only do this or that, you can only be reimbursed a certain amount. But if you asked about, for instance, the family history, the surgical history and the social history, then you have all the elements to charge more. So there’s an incredible temptation to just push, push, push and bring forward everything from the previous notes without re-asking the questions.
This creates a huge problem: The records are full of lies. They’re full of things that [physicians] have said they’ve done but truly haven’t. The patient has been in eighth grade for three years. The patients are divorced, but in the record they’re still married. The patient used to work as a nurse and now works as a librarian, but it hasn’t been changed in the record because people are giving quick, push-button answers to save time, and they don’t update the info. You can see this as you go through small things in the social history but also in [clinical histories]. Yesterday, someone sent me a letter about an amputee patient he sent to a podiatrist. He got a report back on both the patient’s feet. This patient only has one foot.
Even when doctors are conscientious, EMRs don’t eliminate medical errors. They merely change the kinds of errors made. For example, EMRs eliminate the problem of doctors’ illegible handwriting on prescriptions. Instead, physicians might (and sometimes do) accidentally click on the wrong medication on the menu.
(Note: EMRs are not inherently bad. A well-designed EMR can add tremendous value to many medical practices. But the choice of whether and when to purchase an EMR should be left up to each individual hospital and medical group. The government should not be pressuring doctors into adopting EMRs any more than it should pressure citizens into purchasing smartphones they might not need. But that’s a topic worthy of a separate column.)
So how can patients protect themselves from errors in their electronic medical records? I recommend four simple steps:
1) Get a copy of your own medical records at regular intervals and review it thoroughly. This is especially important if you’ve had recent major surgery or developed a serious new medical condition (such as a new diagnosis of cancer). If you find an error, contact the appropriate hospital or doctor’s office and ask that it be corrected.
2) Make sure you understand all your prescription medications. The most common errors in electronic medical records involve patient medications (either a wrong medication or a wrong dose). Discuss each medication with your doctor and/or pharmacist until you understand why you are taking it, the proper dose, how often, for how long, and what side effects to look out for.
3) Whenever you undergo laboratory or radiology testing, request a copy of the results for your own personal files. Most radiology offices will gladly burn a CD of your radiology imaging tests for you (either for free or for a small fee). That way, you can review the results at your leisure or seek second opinions at your discretion.
4) Whenever you have a doctor’s appointment, consider bringing a small voice recorder to record any discussions. (Many smartphones also have a voice recorder app.) Most doctors are glad to let patients record their conversations, so they can replay them when they get home or go over them with family members unable to attend.
Electronic medical records can be powerful tools when designed properly and used wisely. And errors certainly occurred in the era of paper records. But electronic medical records can create new risks for patients. Prudent patients will want to ensure their own records are accurate. Someday, your life may depend on your diligence.
Are doctors suffering at the hands of the Herzberg principle–which says that the best way to discourage workers is to subject them to policies and procedures that don’t make sense?
Improve doc satisfaction by taking the headache out of health IT
An article in the Atlantic explores how changes in the healthcare payment model, health IT and the doctor-patient relationship are discouraging docs.
“It is easy for many healthcare leaders to forget that doctors go into medicine not because they enjoy entering data into complex electronic health records and ensuring that their employer gets paid for everything they do, but because they want to make good diagnoses, prescribe appropriate treatments and help patients,” the article states.
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Paul Weygandt, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon, told the Atlantic that contemporary medicine has let too many “intermediaries”–financing, technology and practice structure–get between patients and doctors, and too much time is focused on generating revenue over quality.
Technology is made with engineers in mind, not doctors, Weygandt says. It’s often reported that doctors and nurses are left out of the design phase of building new technology.
One example of this is the need to give nurses a seat at the health IT development table, since they actually know what’s necessary to achieve optimal patient care. In particular, Elizabeth “Betty” Jordan, R.N., an assistant professor at the University of South Florida College of Nursing, told FierceHealthIT in a recent interview. Nurses are often given demonstrations on IT tools that already exist–including tablets and other monitoring devices–but are not given the opportunity to join in on such conversations during the technology planning and development stages.
This is where doctors’ input would come in handy. Of course, new technology can help doctors practice better medicine, but change isn’t easy, Weygandt notes.
“Every innovation should be tested not just to see if it increases revenue or cuts costs,” he says, “but also to ensure that it enhances the doctor-patient relationship.”
In another example of docs’ attention being diverted by technology, doctors who use electronic health records in the exam room spend about one-third of their time looking at the screen, which might detract from patient communication, according to research from Northwestern University.
However, in summer 2012, it was reported that eighty percent of physicians in a MedPage Today survey say technology has improved communication with their patients.
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– read the article in the Atlantic
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March 12, 2014 | Anthony Brino, Associate Editor
While the U.S. continues digitizing its healthcare industry, a huge challenge is arising: not only securing those systems but verifying identities.
With a steady stream of HIPAA-covered data breaches continuing over the past few years, not to mention the debacle of Target’s recent customer financial information loss, some argue that current identity security approaches just aren’t adequate — especially considering that criminal attacks on hospitals are increasing substantially.
“Protecting sensitive personal information with passwords is akin to building a massive stone fortress and then securing the front door with the kind of lock I use to keep my two-year-old out of my bathroom,” said Jeremy Grant, a senior advisor on identity management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, heading up the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.
April 2014 marks three years since the Obama Administration launched the NSTIC, a public-private initiative aimed at spurring the private sector to increase privacy, security and trust in online transactions across industries.
Speaking at a public hearing held by the federal Health IT Standards Committee’s Privacy and Security Workgroup, Grant argued that while there has been progress in a number of pilots — with six of 12 relating to healthcare — the private sector, particularly health organizations, need to start agreeing on standards.
[See also: EHR incentive payments soar toward $22 billion.]
The National Strategy “will only succeed if sectors in need of better identity solutions step forward and demonstrate a willingness to roll up their sleeves in support of the collaborative effort,” said Grant, the former chief development officer at ASI Government.
Personal health record sharing options like the Blue Button will only work “if patients have an easy way to assert that they really are themselves online,” Grant explained.
Though not the only layer of security needed, identity is perhaps the most important and difficult, Grant argued. Identity solutions “can’t simply be secure,” he said; they have “to be easy to use, or else users won’t bother.”
Grant urged the Private and Security Work Group to bring a message back to the rest of the Health IT Standards Committee and the broader health and health IT communities: Even though standards may not be as mature or technologies as widely-available as some would hope, don’t wait.
“If the Workgroup or the broader health sector are of the view that this marketplace will soon be created while everybody sits back and watches,” Grant continued, “I believe folks are going to be waiting for a long time.”
Bringing that vision of secure and accessible identification technology to reality is going to take a lot of work, though.
“Privacy and Interoperability are among our most pressing concerns and they often conflict in the real world,” argued Thomas Sullivan, MD, the chief strategy officer at the e-prescribing company DrFirst, and a past president of the Massachusetts Medical Society. “There are far too many examples of unnecessary redundancy in IDP and identity management of both providers and patients,” leading to “higher costs, inefficiency, errors, fraud and frustration throughout the industry.”
The problem can manifest in multiple ways for patients and providers. Sullivan offered two examples.
For patients who decide what providers to share their information with, there is great privacy, yes, but also a “risk of danger and harm” if the information is incomplete or not shared in the event of emergencies.
[See also: ONC eyes EHR ‘shades of grey’ in behavioral health, LTPAC realms.]
For providers controlling identity attributes of patients, there are administrative efficiencies and “a certain element of patient safety added since it is easier to discover aggregate data that may bear on treatment decisions.” At the same time, “the patient loses a certain element of control regarding data sharing and thus, perhaps [there will be] less privacy protection,” Sullivan said.
Now, some see the solution to those identity and security problems as one with few risks, albeit with lingering controversy: a national patient identifier system.
While “some members have proposed that as one of several solutions, I’m sure we’re not trying to provide a national ID for all patients,” Sullivan said, referring to the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group he is also a member of. “Back when the HIPAA debate took place, it was clear we would not have a national patient identifier until Congress acted. But we are looking at ways to identity-proof patients and providers and to make those attributes a lot more usable.”
Indeed, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (the parent organization of HIMSS Media, publisher of Government Health IT), the American Health Information Management Association and others are pushing a new idea as an alternative to a national patient ID system — a national patient matching system, options for which HIMSS in collaboration with HHS innovation fellows are currently exploring.
Whatever the outcome of those or other standards efforts, practitioners like Sullivan are just glad to see the problem of identity management starting to be addressed.
“It’s pretty rare that a physician would agree with anyone on anything,” he said, “but I completely agree that we need to collaborate more between commerce and HHS.”
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The Affordable Care Act made preliminary efforts to collect and disseminate data on health care price, utilization, and quality in the United States. This commentary proposes that all such data need to be publicly available to achieve a health care system that delivers high value.
Steven Brill’s “Bitter Pill” Time cover story (1) shed disturbing light on the lack of price and quality transparency in U.S. health care. He reveals that many stakeholders in the health care system profit from concealed price and quality information, including poor-performing and high-priced insurers, providers, and suppliers (1). All of us are harmed through higher premiums and less-effective competition. Most important, patients may inadvertently place themselves at higher risk for injury or unwittingly pay more for poor-quality services.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) made significant albeit preliminary efforts to collect and disseminate price and quality data. More action is essential, by shifting the basis of competition from structural market power to delivery of better value. To achieve this, we propose the transparency imperative: All data on price, utilization, and quality of health care should be made available to the public unless there is a compelling reason not to do so. The transparency imperative is part of the foundation for a post-ACA health care system that achieves better quality and cost control.
Prices
Few patients have any knowledge of prices for any health care service, from a laboratory test to surgery. More important, obtaining such information is almost impossible. First, services comprise different inputs, so it’s hard to obtain a unified price. Second, commercial prices are almost completely opaque. For example, differences in pricing power among hospitals has led to large disparities in price (typically more than 200%) within local markets, with little relationship to differences in quality (2). This remains true even within most preferred provider organization insurance networks.
Utilization
It’s very difficult for patients to discover how many procedures a physician or hospital performs, yet utilization is critical for informed decision making. Physician case volume is one of the most important predictors of quality for many surgeries and medical conditions. For instance, it is estimated that a urologist needs to perform more than 700 robotic prostatectomies before the learning curve flattens out (3–4), yet determining how many procedures a urologist has performed is virtually impossible. Famously in 1979, the American Medical Association sued Medicare to block the release of data on the number of procedures billed to Medicare, claiming physician privacy (5).
Quality
Access to quality data is limited, and better performance has not led to gains in market share thus far. Few good-quality metrics exist, and the ones that do are largely limited to inpatient care processes for coronary artery bypass graft surgery, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, community-acquired pneumonia, pregnancy, hip replacement, knee replacement, and organ transplantation. Quality data that are publicly disclosed, such as Medicare’s Hospital Compare, are of limited utility because they are reported vaguely in most cases as “No Different than U.S. National Rate” or “Better (or Worse) than U.S. National Rate.”
The ACA contains requirements to release Medicare claims and Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) data. However, very few of these data have flowed into the public domain, probably the biggest limitation being risk aversion. Unfortunately, the data have been released to only a few “qualified entities” (6). The intent was to be sure that such entities had the technical capacity to analyze the Medicare data responsibly. But the latest regulations significantly restrict the flow of data and preclude smart but inexperienced people on tight budgets from analyzing them (6).
Initially, one would think that health plans should have the greatest desire to make price and quality transparent to their members because they capture savings when members choose better-value providers. Unfortunately, transparency is not necessarily their top priority. To satisfy the desires of employees, many employers demand broad provider networks that include market-dominant providers, such as prominent academic centers that prohibit transparency in 30% to 40% of cases. They try to keep costs down by negotiating rates instead of providing information and guiding patients to better-value providers.
Price and quality information are imperative for new payment models. With expansion of risk-based reimbursement models like accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes, providers will have to identify high-value providers who can consistently deliver high-quality care with fewer complications at an affordable price to capture more savings, achieve quality metric goals, and earn higher incomes.
For meaningful progress on transparency to occur, there must be a change in attitude throughout the system. All payers should be required to make their claims data publically available, with privacy protections, to enable quality measurement. Of importance, to protect privacy, the federal government should substantially increase the penalties for inappropriate patient re-identification.
Personalized pricing information should be made available for comparison before patients enter a care process. Both total price and patient price should be transparent to providers in shared-savings payment models to enable cost management. Only patient price should be available to providers in fee-for-service networks to mitigate the risk for price increases.
Fortunately, there is much that stakeholders can do. The federal government can relax restrictions on access to Medicare data. Other states should follow the lead of California and Massachusetts and require providers to disclose prices to patients before elective care. Health plans and employers should also support such transparency tools as Castlight (www.castlighthealth.com).
If we are going to bend the cost curve, a better functioning health care market is critical. Transparency is essential for patients to consume care from providers who deliver greater value. For providers, transparency is essential for risk-based reimbursement models to work. It is also the best approach to overcome local monopoly pricing power by providers. Most important, the current health care marketplace is ripe for patients to capture large and unjustified differences in price and quality. As more patients do this, we all benefit from more effective competition and health care prices that better reflect value.
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Article link: http://gizmodo.com/a-tiny-new-chip-promises-internet-400-times-faster-than-1521523614
Fast internet is fast. Google Fiber’s gigabit connections? That’s like driving a sports car compared to the go-cart-speed connection that’s probably in your house. But new technology from IBM opens the door for connections that are beyond fast. Comparatively, it’s like flying a fighter jet.
IBM researchers in Switzerland just unveiled the prototype for an energy efficient analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that enables connections as fast as 400 gigabits per second. That’s 400 times faster than Google Fiber and about 5,000 times faster than the average U.S. connection. That’s fast enough to download a two-hour-long, 4K ultra high definition movie in mere seconds. In short, that’s incomprehensibly fast.
The ADC chip itself was actually built for loftier purposes than downloading episodes of Planet Earth, though. It’s actually bound for the Square Kilometer Array in Australia and South Africa to help us peer hundreds of millions of light years into space, hopefully to give us a better idea of what the universe was like around the time of the Big Bang. This massive radio telescope will devour data, too. It’s expected to gather over an exabyte every day when it’s finished in 2024. That’s over 100 billion gigabytes.
Believe it or not, 400 gigabit isn’t even the fastest connection the world has seen. For that you’ll have to go to the United Kingdom where researchers recently developed 1.4 terabit internet using commercial-grade hardware. That’s warp speed. [ZDNet]
Statewide Website Will Soon Allow New Yorkers Access to their Healthcare Records Online
NEW YORK, Aug. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) announced today that Mana Health, a New York City-based Health IT start-up, was awarded the vendor contract to build the Patient Portal for New Yorkers. The portal is a website through which New Yorkers will be able to access their healthcare records safely and securely online.
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The Patient Portal for New Yorkers website will become available to patients beginning in early 2014 in select parts of the state. Additional capabilities are also in development and will be rolled out over time.
Via the portal, patients whose providers are participating in the program will soon have online access to their personal healthcare data, including lab results, lists of medications, radiology reports, and other information about procedures and medical conditions from the various providers they see. Patients will also be able to decide who can access their data such as their doctors or family members.
Mana Health was awarded the contract to build the portal by an interdisciplinary team of representatives including the New York State Department of Health, NYeC specialists, and Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), who reviewed all bid submissions. Mana Health’s bid was deemed to have the best understanding of the needs of New Yorkers. Mana Health was also the winner of the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, held earlier this year. The Design Challenge was launched to source the most innovative and user-friendly portal designs and was voted on by the public at large.
Mana Health will work directly with NYeC to build the user interface for the portal website and its connection to the Statewide Health Information Network of New York (SHIN-NY). The SHIN-NY is a secure network for sharing clinical patient data across New York State.
“New Yorkers do everything else online. It’s imperative that they also be able to access their healthcare data online, whenever they need it. This is the most important information a person has about him or herself,” said David Whitlinger, Executive Director of NYeC. “We are excited to be partnering with Mana Health to provide patients across the state with that access.”
“Our aim is to empower today’s patient-consumer with an insightful and easy-to-use tool to familiarize themselves with their health data,” said Chris Bradley, CEO and Co-Founder of Mana Health. “Working with the great minds at NYeC to support this statewide patient portal for New Yorkers is truly a dream come true.”
For more information about the Patient Portal for New Yorkers, please visit www.patientportalfornewyorkers.org. For more information about Mana Health, please visit www.manahealth.com.
About Mana Health: Mana Health is a healthcare technology company that uses data to make healthcare work better. Based in New York City, their team is comprised of experts from across healthcare, software development, consumer experience, and analytics. Mana Health’s first product, the Mana Patient Gateway, offers an engaging experience that empowers patients through their HIE, hospital, and employer data. Learn more at www.manahealth.com.
About The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC): NYeC is a not-for-profit organization, working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare for all New Yorkers through health information technology (health IT). Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC receives funding from state and federal grants to serve as the focal point for health IT in the State of New York. NYeC works to develop policies and standards, to assist healthcare providers in making the shift to electronic health records, and to coordinate the creation of the Statewide Health Information Network of New York (SHIN-NY), a network to connect healthcare providers statewide. For more information about NYeC, visit www.nyehealth.org and @NYeHealth.
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