Personal Health Records and Mental Health
Joseph Kim, Health News
“Personal health records or PHRs are becoming more and more popular these days as health information technology capabilities become more wide-spread.
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Health Information Technology Adoption Toolbox
AHRQ
“This toolbox is filled with resources for health centers as well as other safety net and ambulatory care providers seeking to implement health information technology (IT) to improve the overall effectiveness of their institutions.
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An Interview with Matthew Holt
Richard Reece/Brian Klepper, The Health Care Blog
“Here is a treat for regular readers of THCB and, certainly, for everyone who has come to know Matthew. Below, the erudite retired Pathologist, fierce physician advocate, health care chronicler and interviewer, and lover of bad puns, Dick Reece, interviews Matthew, Founder of The Health Care Blog and, with his partner Indu Subaiya, Co-Founder of the Health 2.0 conferences.
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Plakataktion gegen elektronische Gesundheitskarte Meldung vorlesen und MP3-Download
Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“Die elektronische Gesundheitskarte kostet viele Milliarden und bringt keinen medizinischen Fortschritt. Dies ist keine Information der Bundesregierung.”
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Merlin EMR goes live at West Virginia University Hospitals
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“West Virginia University Hospitals went live this weekend with Merlin, a $90 million electronic medical records project, as part of its “Wave 2″ implementation.
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Patients Share Their Stories Using Digital Media – Nottingham, England
Medical News Today
“Patients who received treatment at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust are sharing their stories online in a new video library launched today, 16 January 2009, on the Trust website.
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The Largest Roll-Out Of Hospital Electronic Prescribing In The UK Has Commenced
Medical News Today
“A major project to implement full e-prescribing and drug administration across three acute care sites in Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has commenced.
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Medical privacy affects us all, and Congress keeps missing the point
Curt Monash, A World of Bytes
“The New York Times reminds us that President-Elect Obama is committed to the automation of medical records. I think that’s great, as there are many reasons why electronic health records a great idea.
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Interactive websites for Liverpool GPs
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Liverpool Primary Care Trust has commissioned individual websites for ten PCT-run GP practices, as part of its commitment to providing information and online services to patients.
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South Jersey Healthcare offers its physicians an EHR
Healthcare IT News
“Member physicians of South Jersey Healthcare, an integrated healthcare system offering hospital, ambulatory care and home healthcare services, will soon be offered electronic health records.
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OpenMRS – Google Earth: Electronic Medical Records & Visualization
OpenMRs, IRD
“A look at the open source electronic medical records system OpenMRS and visualizing patient data in it using Google Earth. Done by Interactive Research & Development (IRD) in Karachi, Pakistan.”
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OpenMRS Concept Dictionary
OpenMRS, IRD
“A look at the concept dictionary feature of the Open Medical Records System. Done by Interactive Research & Development (IRD) in Karachi, Pakistan.”
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Telemedicine must go past the hardware
Adam Cresswell, The Australian
“Thousands of patients from rural areas could be spared the expense and hassle of travelling to a major city to see a specialist if health systems made more effort to make good use of communications technologies.
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Researchers Assess The State Of Stroke Telemedicine
ZAMP Bionews
“Stroke telemedicine is a lifesaving practice that deserves further advancement, Mayo researchers write in the January 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
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Study finds US PHR use remains low
Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“Despite high levels of interest, the vast majority of US citizens have yet to use or create a personal health record (PHR).
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Patient Privacy; UK Law to European Standards
Paul Thornton
“The National Information Governance Board (NIGB) for Health and Social Care is “very concerned about DH proposals to allow health professionals or research professionals to use care records, without the informed consent of the patient” and the board believes “that this is a breach of good practice in confidentiality and consent and have questioned if there is a sound legal basis for it.”
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Data watchdog urged to examine legality of NHS database
e-Health Insider
“A GP who is campaigning against the NHS Care Records Services is calling on the watchdog for NHS data to examine the legality of the government’s proposals for the NHS database.
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Heartlands rolls out JAC e-prescribing system
Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider
“Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has started to roll out a JAC e-prescribing system across all three of its acute-care sites.
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Who Can Solve Healthcare IT’s Challenges? Part 1
Health Care Renewal
“In previous posts on the National Research Council report on HIT, the Joint Commission Sentinel Events Alert on HIT, and many others on HC Renewal I’ve alluded to my belief that a root cause of the state of healthcare information technology (high cost, low diffusion, poor usability, poor interoperability, low reliability, questionable benefits, lack of features most helpful to clinicians, etc.) is – to be frank – industry dysfunction.
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Social Media is Hitting the Mainstream. How are Health Plans Adapting?
Martin Trussell, World Health Care Blog
“This is the first post in what I hope to make an 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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