Scotland invests in telehealthcare
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“Scotland has launched its biggest telehealthcare project alongside 16 other e-health initiatives that will be backed by £1.6m of investment.
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Texas HIE goes live
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Sandlot, a wholly owned subsidiary of North Texas Specialty Physicians located in Fort Worth, Texas, has gone live with a health information exchange and integrated electronic medical record platform that links providers in the Tarrant County area.
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Health record banks set to go live in Washington State
Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Washington State Health Care Authority’s health record bank initiative in three communities will go live at the end of February or early March and the request for proposal for the Health Record Bank of Oregon will be released in the same timeframe.
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Dr. Wi-Fi to the Rescue
Celeste LeCompte, Newsweek
“You can get wireless data access just about everywhere these days, from your bathtub to Barcelona’s city streets, so why not in your body?
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Wireless, Health and the FDA
David O'Reilly, Intelligent Medicine Blog
“Let’s give high marks to the FDA for reaching out to begin a conversation with the mobile health industry and consumers.
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I’m going with Google Health
The New Life of e-Patient Dave
My goal is to help create a new world where healthcare is enormously more efficient than it is today, and where important new developments happen enormously faster than they do today.
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WHCC2 Tweet
There has been a lively tweet from the The World Health Care Congress 2nd Annual Leadership Summit on Consumer Connectivity in Carlsbad California.
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Perspective: Growing Europe-wide impact of ICT on health
Healthcare IT News.EU
“EHealth offers many benefits for healthcare systems and individuals,” said the recently inaugurated Minister of Health of the Czech Republic, Daniela Filipiová, at the conference opening.
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What if You Could Visit a Physician Online?
Your TeleDoctor
Here is an interesting slideshow by Stuart Hemerling.
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HL7 wants fewer standards, more patience on health IT
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“HL7 CEO Charles Jaffe says we need fewer standards bodies and more patience from government in order to make health IT work.
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Case study: EMR incentives convince LA physicians to buy in
Anne Zieger, FierceHealthIT
“If the following is a reflection of what will happen as the federal stimulus rolls out, policymakers should be very happy.
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Sites strive to make medical information accessible
Ed Silverman, Covering Health
“SearchMedica’s “About” page says it “scans well-known, credible journals, systematic reviews, and evidence-based article” and that it “selects and scans patient-directed websites, online CME courses, and government databases of clinical trials and practice guidelines.”
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World Health Organization Designates Regenstrief Institute
ZAMP Bionews
“The World Health Organization has designated the Regenstrief Institute’s medical informatics group as the world’s first WHO Collaborating Center for Medical Informatics.
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The Medical Records Institute is no more
Neil Versel, Healthcare IT News
“Following a disappointing turnout at the 25th annual TEPR conference earlier this month, C. Peter Waegemann and Claudia Tessier are moving from the Medical Records Institute to the recently created mHealth Initiative, effectively ending the organization Waegemann founded in the mid-1980s.
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Medpedia’s Wisdom of the Expert Crowd: The Best of Both Worlds or The Worst?
Hippocrates, Trusted.MD
“While I repeatedly criticized the excesses of Web 2.0 hype over the last two years, there was not much to rant about lately. The investment bubble popped, the expectations crashed down to earth and people generally sobered up.
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Does “patient knowledge” lead to inappropriate care? Better empowering health information-seeking patients
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“4 in 10 cancer patients sought information via the Internet, according to a new study to be published in the April 1, 2009, issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Cancer.
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View from the Trenches: an Interview with HL7’s Charles Jaffe, M.D.
Andy Updegrove, ConsortiumInfo Standards Blog
“The number of standard setting organizations (SSOs) from which specifications have been drawn to create Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are legion, due to the complex nature of these goal.
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Someone Needs To Sort Out Some Definitions for E-Health in Australia.
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“What I suggest is that all the players (NEHTA, NHHRC, DoHA, Standard Australia etc) get together, agree what they are actually talking about – with precision – and then let the rest of us know what they are actually planning and what they want the rest of use to accept / use.
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Patient knowledge of health information influences cancer treatment
EurekAlert
“A new analysis finds that when colorectal cancer patients seek out health information from the internet and news media, they are more likely to be aware of and receive the latest treatments for their disease.
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Connectivity Africa: An Overview
Connectivity Africa
“This 10 minute video presents an overview of a number of projects supported by Connectivity Africa. Connectivity Africa was designed to promote research, development and innovation in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for progress in Africa, focusing on the areas of education, health and the economy. It was implemented by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).”
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