House IT stimulus bill lacks answer to key question
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“That question is, simply, open or closed?
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Dutch nationwide EHR postponed. Are they in good company?
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“On January 22 after two months of serious discussion (see here) the Dutch health minister Dr. Ab Klink announced in the Dutch parliament that the implementation of a national EHR will be postponed. He did not mention a new target date.
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PHR Endorsements
Deborah Leyva, Healthcare & Technology
“The Markle Foundation issued a press release for their framework of policy and resources for online personal health record information.
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Web2.0 Use Among Hospitals
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Interesting analysis of hospitals across the country that are using Internet-based, social networking tools, often referred to as Web2.0 (e.g., facebook, YouTube, Twitter) to connect with consumers.
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Elektronische Gesundheitskarte mit ungewisser Zukunft
Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
Sollte es nach der Bundestagswahl zu einer Koalition von CDU/CSU und FDP kommen, wird das Projekt der Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) auf den Prüfstand gestellt.
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EMRs alone cannot reform healthcare, Connected Health chief warns
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Don’t overemphasize traditional electronic medical records as the answer to transforming healthcare, cautions the head of the Center for Connected Health.
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Telehealth boon expected for chronic care patients
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The recent success of telehealth programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show a boon for the technology, especially in treating patients with chronic care conditions.
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IHTSDO Launches Global Health Terminology Workbench
eHealthServer
“The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) has launched a new IHTSDO Workbench with tools to develop, maintain, and facilitate the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. IHTSDO’s 11 Member nations and other SNOMED CT users will use these tools in a shared web-based environment.
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Could privacy laws and bureaucracy derail universal electronic health records?
KevinMD.com
“Aside from the fact that the current generation of electronic records may not be ready for widespread use, there are questions as to whether privacy laws will impede the spread.
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Waste Feared in Digitizing Patient Records: Wall Street Journal
Health Care Renewal
“In today’s Wall Street Journal an article appeared entitled “Waste Feared in Digitizing Patient Records” by Jacob Goldstein and Jane Zhang.
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Open Source Devices & Telehealth
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Imagine what combining an Open Source hardware and software platform together might do in the medical device industry, particularly for less stringent telehealth applications.Â
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What Does an Antiquated EMR (Electronic Record System) Look Like
The Medical Quack
“Well I happen to have one of those I wrote and sold 6-7 years ago, the EMR Data Base.
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PAN-Africa e-Health to Revolutionise Medical Care
eGov
“PAN- African e-health programme at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, will now make telemedicine in Africa not only broaden the scope of health services in the continent, but also give specialised care at the doorstep of the common man.
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New partnership combines clinical support with ePrescribing
Sam Collins, Healthcare IT News EU
“A new partnership will enable UK healthcare professionals to have access to clinical noting, patient management, drug data and electronic prescribing from a single application.
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Social Media 101: Twitter, Part One: Getting Your Tweet On
Gwen Darlings, Health Informatics
“As promised, today we begin peeling back the layers of that mystical onion known as “Social Media,” “Web 2.0,” or, as I overhead one older gentleman call it as he stepped over me and my laptop on the floor at O’Hare, that “computer jibber-jabber crap.” Call it what you want, but it’s here to stay, so let’s begin!
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Gesundheitsportale: ,Anonymität bewahren‘
Nürnberger Nachrichen
“Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen immer mehr Menschen nicht ihren Arzt, sondern das Internet: Bereits fast jeder dritte Deutsche informiert sich mindestens einmal im Monat im Netz zu Gesundheitsfragen.
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European Physician Tech Tools of the Trade – Wikipedia and Social Networking?
EIN News
“Manhattan Research, a global healthcare and pharmaceutical market research company, today announced the release of Taking the Pulse(R) Europe v8.0, its European physician study and strategic advisory service.
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Health privacy is dead. Here’s why
Robert Scoble, FriendFeed
Discussion started by Robert Scoble.
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Twitter And Health 2.0: A Visual Story
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“The VizEdu team did an excellent job when they tried to visualize the connection between medicine and twitter.
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EMR electronic medical records…Dying for Data
“PATIENT BEWARE: Cheryl Conrad makes sure she always keeps a copy of husband Tom’s medical records on hand, after he experienced an excruciating delay in getting treated at a local hospital.
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