The Health Wisdom Blog
“The WisdomCard Alert Service was just the beginning of a larger strategy we are implementing to leverage new distribution channels like the Web, RSS, Email and Twitter
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Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog
“Regular readers know about my skepticism toward personal health records, given the minuscule level of consumer acceptance.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“We need a Federal Ministerial Statement of Intent in the E-Health Space sooner rather than later so everyone can know where they stand and what is actually going on!
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ScienceDaily
“Results from a large-scale Johns Hopkins study of more than 40 hospitals and 160,000 patients show that when health information technologies replace paper forms and handwritten notes, both hospitals and patients benefit strongly.
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Action For Better Healthcare
“Obviously, healthcare information technology has a front-and-center role in the new Obama administration.
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
“When computers replace paper, patient mortality rates drop 15% during hospitalization, among other metrics, according to a study of 41 Texas hospitals by Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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“The UK’s expertise in healthcare and medical technology is showcased in this short video.”
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Ryan Ricks, EMRBlog
“Personal Health Records (PHR) are a handy way for patients to keep track of their medical information.
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CDT
“The Center for Democracy & Technology today released a major policy paper intended to move the health privacy debate from its outdated focus on patient consent to a comprehensive framework that will provide more effective privacy protection.
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“In these closing remarks of his keynote for the World Healthcare Innovation & Technology Congress, Jim provides an inspirational message as to how to go forward and change the world!
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“In this clip from his closing keynote at the 4th World Healthcare Innovation & Technology Congress in Washington, DC, Jim talks about the bold actions and action steps that innovators should pursue to stay in front of the “aggressive indecision” which surrounds them.”
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Terry McGarty, The Squirrel's Nest
“The EMR, or Electronic Medical Record, is a major thrust in the new Obama Budget.
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Simon Letellier, Informatique Médicale,TIC & Pharmacie
“Alors que pour l’interopérabilité médicale, la France est encore aux abonnés absents, c’est en tout cas la conclusion d’i-med, le médicament a l’air de s’en sortir bien pour une fois !
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Anne Zieger, FierceHealthIT
The following may seem like more of a marketing than an IT issue–but I’d argue that it has implications for IT execs too, largely in what applications you’ll need to slate for development in the future.
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Mindy J. Steinberg, Elaine R. Rubin, AAHC
The Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a regulation designed to protect the privacy of health information, continues to have a negative impact on the nation’s research enterprise, according to the latest survey of academic health center research administrators and principal investigators by the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC).
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“The HIPAA privacy rule continues to have a negative affect on health research, according to a new report from the Association of Academic Health Centers in Washington, D.C.
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John Moore, Government Health IT
“The Health and Human Services Department has formally recognized three new interoperability specifications related to electronic health records, personal health records and electronic quality monitoring.
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Carolyn Thompso, News-Leader
“Doctors in western New York have a new, electronic way to access patient records with the hope of reducing medical errors and avoiding costly duplicative tests.
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Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“I had a nice discussion today with a few Twitterers including Jay Parkinson about the quality of online medical information.
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David C. Kibbe, Peter Neupert, The Health Care Blog
“Now that the Obama administration and Congress have committed to spending billions of tax payers’ money on health IT as part of the economic stimulus package, it’s important to be clear about what consumers and patients ought to expect in return—better decision-making by doctors and patients.
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