Articles
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Investing now in information technology and other tools needed to modernize the nation’s healthcare system will pay dividends in lower costs and greater productivity in the future, said Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund.
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21 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Health Information Technology
“The ICMCC News Page provides links to articles and publications on medical and care ICT. And many of those are added each day. One of the authors, Zane Safrit, asked for a reaction on his article, Digital Patient Medical Records and Privacy: 3 Principles, 5 Steps. That’s a first.
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21 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | EHR: EHR | Tags: Access, Alert/Reminder, Patient
“La parálisis cerebral es un trastorno global que produce un desorden permanente y no progresivo del tono, la postura y el movimiento, debido a una lesión cerebral antes de que su desarrollo y crecimiento se complete.
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21 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Brain, Children, Information Technology
Mick de Neeve, NRC Handelsblad
“Uit een dinsdag gehouden debat in de Tweede Kamer blijkt dat veel parlementariërs betwijfelen of het elektronisch patiëntendossier wel op 1 september kan worden ingevoerd. Veel Kamerleden pleiten voor meer veiligheidstests.
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21 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Legal, Privacy, Security
Healthcare Informatics
“In a letter to Congress, a new coalition has proposed a new standard for patient copies of their EHR information that is believed to be a critical, transformative, and cost-effective step toward both interoperability and patient privacy, it states.
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21 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access
Alice Lipowicz, Government Health IT
“The government must be a leader in identifying and fighting medical identity theft
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21 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Technology, Identity
Rebecca Smith, The Telegraph
“Experts examined complications with 453 patients undergoing keyhole gallbladder removal and compared the differences between those where surgeons used robots and human assistants.
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21 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Education, Robot, Simulation, Surgery, Virtual
L. Reece, Medinnovationblog
“If doctors in small practices, 85% of all physicians, can’t afford them and distrust them as clinicians;
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21 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA
Medical News Today
“Doctors from the Navarre University Clinic [Clínica Universitaria de Navarra (CUN)] have developed an electronic alarm system that alerts doctors to the level of risk of thrombosis in hospitalised patients.
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20 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Prevention, thrombosis
Richard L. Reece, Medinnovationblog
“A Chat with Doctor Gordon Moore.
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20 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Privacy, Transparency
Larry Medina, Computerworld Blogs
“Any EMR/EHR system is going to be expensive to deploy, and more thought and planning has to go into it prior to deployment.
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20 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Privacy, Standards
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“GPs and primary care staff will be expected to offer personalised care plans to almost 15m people living with a long term condition by 2010, according to latest guidance.
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20 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Chronic Care, Data Sharing, Diabetes, Health Information Technology
Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider
“Seven of New Zealand district health boards have formed a collaboration to procure an “individual-centric” health management system.
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20 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: New Zealand | Tags: Health Information Technology
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Marion General Hospital in Marion, Ind. will develop and roll out enterprise-wide interoperable portals for physicians, patients, employees and consumers over the next two years.
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20 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Access, Data Sharing, Hospitals, Interoperability, Portal
Martin Trussell, World Health Care Blog
“This is the second post in my occasional series in the use of social media by health plans to engage their members to become healthier and better consumers of health care services.
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20 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Blog, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0
Micky Tripathi, The MAeHC Blog
“Well, the health IT legislation is starting to take shape, and it’s a little more sobering than the initial speculations of tens of billions of HIT dollars being unleashed on state governments in the next few months.
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20 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Technology, Interoperability
Zane Safrit
“Here’s 3 principles and 5 steps to solve this challenge of ease of access vs privacy concerns.
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19 January 2009 | 1 Comment »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Alert/Reminder, Privacy
Medical News Today
“A new report from InMedica forecasts exceptional growth in the number of telehealth subscribers over the next decade due to the increased use of telehealth services for chronic disease management in professional care in tandem with growth in the consumer driven market for telehealth services.
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19 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Disease Management, Telehealth
Mark Hawker, White Rose HIP
“Mental health problems are found in people of all ages, countries, regions and societies. It was reported that in Great Britain 1 in 4 adults will experience at least one diagnosable mental health problem in any one year, and that 1 in 10 children aged between 1 and 15 has a mental health disorder.
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19 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: Report, Science | Country: UK | Tags: Behaviour, Mental Health, Monitoring, Telepsychiatry
Mario Gibbels, ICTZorg
“Eind dit jaar is 80 tot 90 procent van de zorgaanbieders aangesloten op het landelijk schakelpunt (LSP).
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19 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands