Making The Most Of Federal Health Information Technology Regulations [Defining Meaningful Use]

Making The Most Of Federal Health Information Technology Regulations [Defining Meaningful Use]: "

"Meaningful use" of interoperable electronic health records throughout the U.S. health care delivery system—the goal set forth in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009—is a critical national goal. Proposed federal regulations on data exchange standards and the definition of meaningful use are well conceived and provide a foundation for the nation to begin the journey.

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Using RSS to keep up with journals

The journal table of contents you see here on this page, as well as the article titles you see in the box at the bottom of the page are examples of how you can use RSS to easily scan journal contents. When you want to read a full article that you come across, it's generally quick and easy to get hold of it. Check out the way we've bundled RSS feeds from journals according to subject area. You can easily grab our "top picks" for nursing, or feeds for all of the nursing journals we get at Ebling Library. Once you get a bundle, you can easily add and delete journals as you wish. We've gathered and bundled these feeds for you convenience. It's really not difficult, and you can always ask help if you need it.

How Good are Systematic Reviews?

Interesting article and editorial on currency and value of systematic reviews in current Annals of Internal Medicine. Very relevant for anyone considering the "gold standard" of evidence for clinical practice. Here's the link :

How Quickly Do Systematic Reviews Go Out of Date? A Survival Analysis

Kaveh G. Shojania, Margaret Sampson, Mohammed T. Ansari, Jun Ji, Steve Doucette, and David Moher

Clinicians often use systematic reviews to obtain current evidence to guide clinical decisions and health care policy. Shojania and coworkers studied 100 quantitative systematic reviews to see how quickly the conclusions changed as new evidence became available. Conclusions about the effectiveness or harms of therapies frequently changed soon after publication of the systematic review. The median survival time without a change in the conclusions was 5.5 years. Significant new evidence had become available within 2 years for 23%. The evidence supporting preferred clinical practices is unstable.

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Yes, another blog!

This is the debut of yet another online resource clamoring for your attention. Just what you need, right? The good news is, this blog is intended to guide you to the nursing research and literature that is of most use to you, rather than overwhelm you with the vast amount of stuff out there that you already can't keep up with. I hope you'll be able to set yourself up with RSS feeds that address only what interests you, to be used when you need it. We'll see how it goes.