It’s time again for a roundup of interesting EMR tweets. The last one is a doozy and an amazing reason to keep up on Twitter (or at least read this site…We follow tweets so you don’t have to!).
“I’m less confident that we can fix what Epic is doing to our notes, and our brains.” bit.ly/Ql6ByR #EMR #meded
— Mary L. Brandt MD (@drmlb) October 21, 2012
This is a sad thing to say about EMR notes. Although, I think that this tweet is a small part of a larger “revolt” against many of the cookie cutter, little value notes that are produced by many EMR software. Change is afoot in this regard, but it will take some time to get there.
Doing clinical data viz from a single EMR is no trick. With restfulhealth we want to provide same for outside/community data #prebacked
— Tom Wilson (@twilson650) October 22, 2012
I love when a company takes on EMR data visualization. We need to discover much better, more efficient ways for healthcare practitioners to be able to process increasing amounts of health data. I hope that Restful Health is successful. Plus, they’re right that doing it from multiple health data sources is much harder.
Benefitter demoing an Amazon EC2-based app for care coordination. Lots of tack-on EMR apps. #prebacked
— Mototwit (@Mototwit) October 22, 2012
Is Amazon EC2 HIPAA compliant? I can think of some ways to get it there, but they require a whole lot of encryption to make it happen. I expect most don’t go to this effort. Thoughts?
T1: Patient: “I drink in moderation.” Doc: “Hmm. Your Facebook-integrated EMR says you drink like a fish.” #HCSM
— Gautam Jaggi (@GautamJaggi) October 22, 2012
This was a fascinating tweet for me. Far too many people mention Facebook and EMR or PHR and start to freak out. What an amazing idea to use Facebook and other social or web sources to inform the care that’s provided to a patient. I’m sure that many people will hop all over this talking about privacy issues, but I’d rather deal with those issues than deal with a patient that’s lying is causing them not to get the care they need. I wonder what other ways the web and social media could inform patient care.