Articles
Steve Beller, Curing Healthcare
“I fully agree with report’s point that a key part of the solution requires radical HIT innovation. I’m not talking creating about variations of conventional products that now crowd the market.
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18 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Chronic Care, Consumer, Data Sharing, Decision Support, Education, evidence-based, Health Information Technology, Innovation
The New Life of e-Patient Dave
“We hear people talking about “social media” – Facebook, blogs, Twitter and all that – and I often hear folks wonder, “Is this making any difference or is it just another way for idiots to waste time?”
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18 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Blog, facebook, participatory, Twitter
Peter Neupert, Neupert On Health
“Yesterday, I testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, otherwise known as HELP.Â
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18 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Chronic Care, Data Sharing, Health Information Technology, Legal, Patient
Fox Business
Peter Neupert, Microsoft Health Solutions Group, in interview with Fox Business.
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18 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Chronic Care, Health Information Technology, Innovation, Patient
Robert Pear, The New York Times
“President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to link up doctors and hospitals with new information technology, as part of an ambitious job-creation program, is imperiled by a bitter, seemingly intractable dispute over how to protect the privacy of electronic medical records.
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18 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Health Information, Health Information Technology, Legal, Medical Errors, Privacy, sealed-envelope
Healthcare Town Hall
A Healthcare Town Hall discussion was organised about EHRs on 1 December 2008.
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17 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Consent, Consumer, Empowerment, Health Information, healthcare town hall, Patient
Youtube
“Como la mayoría de vosotros no sabréis la Web 2.0 ya existe y la usamos día a día, sin embargo, nos pasa desapercibida aunque no seamos capaces de imaginar nuestra vida sin ella.
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17 January 2009 | 2 Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Tags: Education, Medicine 2.0, Telemedicine, Virtual, Web 2.0
Youtube
A fantastic example of a viral video to raise awareness of the risks of skin cancer.
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17 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Country: Australia | Tags: Awareness, Dermatology, Internet, Oncology
George Lauer, iHealthBeat
“Last week, four health care organizations announced a new collaboration with the federal government to form a testing project for new electronic health care transactions.
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17 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Coding, Health Information Technology, ICD-10, Standards
“A dozen organizations including patient advocates, vendors and health information exchanges have sent members of Congress a letter urging patient access to their electronic health records.
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17 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA General, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Consent
“House veterans affairs panel chairman ties poor management to problems with latest upgrade of department’s EHR system.
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17 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA
“The following critique, seen at the HISTalk industry-sponsored gossip site here, has me scratching my head.
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17 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Technology
“Today, I have been invited by StopSida to participate in a workshop about “Internet, Sex and Men who have sex with men”.
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17 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: HIV, Internet, Lifestyle
“House leaders want a Dec. 31, 2009 deadline for a set of initial health information standards
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17 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information, Hospitals, Legal, Standards
“The days of scrambling to recall or find immunization dates or medication names and doses may be numbered.
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16 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Patient, phr, Privacy
“Twitter may either be the greatest prank (R-rated) ever played on the internet community or it may be the best thing since sliced bread.
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16 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Twitter, Web 2.0
Valerie C. Melvin, GAO
“Health IT has the potential to help improve the efficiency and quality of health care, but achieving the transition to a nationwide health IT capability is an inherently complex endeavor.
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16 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: Report, Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Technology, Interoperability, Privacy, Standards
“Las siete áreas de salud de Galicia contarán antes de 2011 con unidades específicas de atención psiquiátrica a personas mayores.
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16 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Elderly, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry
“According to Manhattan Research, a healthcare market research company, personal health records (PHR) are slowly becoming more popular in the U.S., but concerns about privacy and a lack of understanding, as well as doubts about the efficiency of PHRs are holding back widespread adoption.
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16 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Consumer, Google-Health, HealthVault, Medical Errors, phr
“In Nov. 2008 I wrote a post “Should The U.S. Call A Moratorium On Ambitious National Electronic Health Records Plans?”
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16 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Technology