Coleman Research Group’s Healthcare department highlights Chicago health system offers its employees a PHR and Grassley inquires about hospitals’ IT experiences
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Chicago health system offers its employees a PHR
CHICAGO – Vanguard Health Systems will soon offer a personal health record to its employees.
Officials at the Chicago-based health system said the PHR, developed by Dossia, will only be offered to a select group of employees. The system plans to make it available to all employees by the end of the year, and officials also announced plans to offer the PHR to patients of Vanguard’s 15 acute care hospitals and complementary facilities in Chicago, Phoenix, Ariz., San Antonio, Texas and Massachusetts.
“I am very pleased that Vanguard is able to offer the Dossia Personal Health Record to our employees,” said Brad Perkins, MD, Vanguard’s executive vice president of strategy and innovation and chief transformation officer. “We see Dossia as an integral component of our efforts to innovate and change healthcare for the better. Real change will only come once individuals have access to and control over their information.”
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Grassley inquires about hospitals’ IT experiences
WASHINGTON – Close on the heels of a letter sent to several IT infrastructure companies this past fall, in which he investigated “complaints and/or concerns” he’d received about electronic medical records, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has issued another missive to 31 American hospitals.
In his letter, Grassley asks those providers 11 detailed questions about their experiences so far with the purchasing and implementation of healthcare IT.
With $19 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act earmarked for medical information technology, Grassley writes that he has “a special responsibility to protect the health of the [IT] programs’ more than 100 million beneficiaries as well as the congressionally authorized tax dollars used to fund” them.
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