Tom Young, Computing
“The Department of Health should allow individual trusts to apply for alternative funding for IT systems if the central £12.7bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is still failing to deliver in six months’ time, according to MPs.
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“Twenty billion dollars might finally turn the U.S. health-care system digital.
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Trisha Torrey, Every Patient's Advocate
“For several years now, I’ve sounded the warning bells — stay away from those websites that allow you to put your own health records online for free….
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Health Care Trackers Blog
“Who would have every thought that Google would be involved with health care? Google knows what the customer wants and they go after it.
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Deven McGraw, CDT
Statement of Deven McGraw Director, Health Privacy Project Center for Democracy & Technology
Before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Alan Brookstone, CanadianEMR
“According to marketing web site ClickZ, findings from a new Manhattan Research report demonstrate significant interest from doctors in the US to use social networking sites.
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Virginia Citrano, ClickZ
“Some 60 percent of doctors in the United States use social networking sites for physicians, or are interested in joining them, and they write more prescriptions than medical colleagues who are not active in such sites.
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epractice.eu
“The implementation of the project consisted of the design, installation and operation of hospital information systems in three regional healthcare institutions of Lithuania
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“If Congress does not adequately address privacy as part of healthcare IT funding measures in the economic recovery package, any efforts to advance healthcare IT will fail, according to experts who testified Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Chelsey LeDue, Healthcare IT News
“Consumer Watchdog has called on Google to end a rumored lobbying effort aimed at allowing the sale of electronic medical records in the current version of the economic stimulus legislation.
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EMR and HIPAA
“While browsing a thread on my favorite EMR forum, I found this intrigueing post by Matt Chase (someone who I deeply respect and the MD behind Medtuity EMR).
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EMR and HIPAA
“I’ve had a huge interest in the open source EMR and Free EMR movement. Turns out my readers are just as interested in a Free EMR as I am.
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e-Patient Dave, e-Patients.net
“One year ago today I finished reading e-Patients: How they can help us heal healthcare,” the e-patient white paper.
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“The virtual health home is the “other half” of the patient-centered medical home. Some might say it’s the better half.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“All eight facilities in West Virginia’s network of acute, psychiatric and long-term care hospitals have now rolled out barcode technology for medication administration.
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Medical News Today
“Giving patients real-time access to their medical records is a step towards putting them in the driving seat when it comes to managing their health, says the NHS Alliance.
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Adrian Gropper, The Health Care Blog
“Transparency, in the form of a complete, patient-centered and accessible health record is a policy principle that can drive the next wave of health care innovation.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“More than 3.5m patients in Yorkshire and the Humber now have a Detailed Care Record for primary and community care, in one of the lesser-known success stories of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Health Care Trackers Blog
“I decided to start this blog because I haven’t found one that addresses the concerns that I have.
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The Medical Quack
“This topic I can discuss very easily having had a number of years working at this myself.
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