Jacquelyn Bolduc Kittredge, Healh IT Girl
“If you are sick, one way to get better care is to consult the internet.
Not by typing your symptoms into Google for self-diagnosis, but by tapping into social networks to find the best doctor and health care facility.
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Denise Silber, Silber's Blog
“Habituez-vous. C’est désormais BHO (non pas browser helper object, mais Barack Hussein Obama), l’acronyme à retenir.
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Trisha Torrey, Every Patient's Advocate
“I’ve written many times before about electronic medical records, personal health records and privacy.
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Emily Coakley, Finding Dulcinea
“It seems to be an almost unwritten rule of parenting: children get sick late at night or on a weekend, when the doctor is out of the office.
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ScienceDaily
“Students in the Staffordshire-based university’s School of Pharmacy interact with the computer-generated characters to gain experience in effective communication and decision-making.
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Elizabeth Rice, Mayo Clinic Blog
“Mayo Clinic today announced the launch of its culture blog, Sharing Mayo Clinic, which provides an online site for patients and employees to share their stories about what makes Mayo Clinic unique.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Resource Center for Health Information Technology has released a report that shows how barcode medication administration can improve the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare.
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eHealthServer
“Royal Philips Electronics and VTT opened today an InnoHub in the city of Espoo, close to Helsinki to generate innovative ideas and translate these into profitable businesses. Focus areas for the InnoHub are health, life-style and well-being.
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Naimul Huq, Crumple it up
“Twitter is quickly becoming a buzzword with many permutations. Suffixes, prefixes, and infixes give the denizens of the twittersphere (see what I did there) a new vocab mash-up opportunity the likes of which haven’t been seen since Blog was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Jacob Goldstein and Jane Zhang, The Wallstreet Journal
“President Barack Obama has pledged to “wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost,” but many in the field warn that rushing the process of digitizing patients’ records could lead to wasteful spending.
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Data News
“Vincent Van Quickenborne, ministre de la simplification et de l’entreprise, plaide pour un remplacement de la vignette autocollante et de l’attestation papier de soins prodigués par un flux électronique de données.
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Alan Brookstone, CanadianEMR
“Dr. Ewan Affleck is a friend and colleague who practices in Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories and has done so for more than 15 years.
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Nick Heath, ZDNet.co.uk
“The UK’s largest rollout of a hospital electronic-prescription system is nearing completion in Birmingham.
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Martin Trussell, Health Plan Innovation Blog
“When I first conceived of writing about how health insurance plans were possibly using social media technologies like Facebook and Twitter to engage their members to seek better health, I was expecting to find more applications like the one at http://twitter.com/ss1.
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Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal
“Electronic Systems Shown to Reduce Dangerous Errors; A Cure for Poor Penmanship.
With a host of new incentives, doctors are finally beginning to scrap pen and paper in favor of electronic prescriptions.
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Jeffrey Seguritan, Nuts for Healthcare
“So while I don’t subscribe to the threat of volunteer sheriffs marauding through such sensitive data, many people and public interest groups are concerned that the rapid adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) may leave in its tracks the necessary legal protections to ensure patient privacy.Â
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“Amsterdam-based publisher Elsevier has introduced a free online collaboration Web site for medical, scientific and technical researchers.
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Kimberly Morrison, Jacksonville Business Journal
“The Mayo Clinic wasn’t sure what to expect from social media when it gave it a test run four years ago.
Things like iPods, MySpace and blogs had exploded onto the social scene, and businesses were looking to cash in. But the health care industry had other considerations, and more rules to play by.
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Health IT Girl
“In this post I noted that patients want more online access to their doctors.
Most of the suggestions dealt with interactions like turning in paperwork, securing an appointment and email access.
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Philipp Grätzel, e-Health Europe
“The city of Bottrop, North Rhine Westphalia, has launched a private electronic patient record project that utilises the new German healthcare smartcard for patient identification.
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