Video: The Importance of Keeping a PMR/PHR
Deborah Leyva, Healthcare & Technology
“I saw this video from HealthVideo.com (NBC Digital Health Network) on the importance of keeping a PHR and thought others might like to watch it.
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Révision de la Directive de 1995 relative à la protection des données personnelles : Le groupe d’experts “européens” dissous
iMed
“La polémique qui enflait dans les salons feutrés des CNIL européennes a fini par éclater au grand jour.
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Are Health IT Designers, Testers and Purchasers Idiots Who Are Trying to Kill People? Part 2 of a Series
MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“At the provocatively titled piece “Are Health IT Designers, Testers and Purchasers Idiots Who Are Trying to Kill People? Part 1″, I wrote that I would be presenting mockups showing the EHR deficiencies I am hearing about. These deficiencies in basic human computer interaction, biomedical information science, and presentation of information create a terrible user experience for clinicians.
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Are Health IT Designers, Testers and Purchasers Idiots Who Are Trying to Kill People? Part 1 of a Series
MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“In effect through arrogance and complacency, they just might be, along with the people who approve EMR’s, CPOE’s and other clinical IT for sale, as well as those who actually purchase this IT for healthcare organizations.
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Affordable Electronic Device Helps People Change Their Own Habits
PRWeb
“What counts, shakes, and helps people quickly, easily, and privately change their own habits?
Give up? It’s called the MotivAider(R). It may look like a pager, but it’s an ingeniously simple electronic device that was created from scratch to give people of all ages a simple, effective and affordable way to transform their good intentions into life-improving action.
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Could Electronic Health Record Databases Make Clinical Trials Unnecessary?
The Expert Network GLG
“Analysis of: EHRs Can be Used to Test Rx Drug Efficacy, Researchers Say.
Randomized controlled clinical trials have long been considered the gold standard for determining what types of medications work best for specific conditions in large populations of similarly afflicted patients.
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Robots Give Stroke Patients a Helping Hand
Charlene Laino, WebMD Health News
“Stroke patients who were lent a robotic hand regained some lost strength and motor skills, researchers report.
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HIE to link Orange County EDs
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“A statewide system to provide physicians with electronic access to patient information is set to launch in 23 Orange County emergency departments.
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CCHIT to add certification programs
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology plans to expand its certification activities, Chairman Mark Leavitt announced Thursday.
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Tweede Kamer stemt in met landelijk elektronisch patiëntendossier
Dutch Ministry of Health
“De Tweede Kamer stemde donderdag in met een wet die de verplichte aansluiting van zorgverleners op het landelijk elektronisch patiëntendossier (EPD) regelt.
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Electronic Patient Health Records
Dawson, Medical Student Blog
“Having just got back from a series of meetings in Cambridge this week at the “Healthcare Special Interest Group – ‘Meet the Clinic: Personal Health Records‘” seminar, I wanted to share some of my thoughts on electronic patient health records and the technology that is currently available and being developed.
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How Important Is It To Have A Personal Health Record?
DrOrgansHealthBlog
“I Have All My Health Records in One Place?
Interesting question!
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From Health 2.0 to Health 3.0 with In-Body Sensing
David O'Reilly, Intelligent Medicine Blog
“Medtronic last week launched a new medical device in the U.S. to monitor heart beats and detect atrial fibrillation, or abnormal heart rhythms.
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Innovation in Healthcare – When it Pays
Jen McCabe Gorman, Health Management Rx
“In healthcare, we’re constantly arguing about whether or notthe ‘consumerisation’ (or “Appleisation, Disneyisation” etc) of medicine is a good thing.
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Momentum builds on telemedicine
Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“The head of the European Commission’s ICT for health unit says that there is growing momentum behind telemedicine across the continent.
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Vendors partner on German Personal Health Records
Sam Collins, Healthcare IT News EU
“Careon, a German provider for personal health records, and dbMotion, a supplier of health interoperability and intelligence solutions, are partnering in the German-language eHealth market to meet the increasing needs for the exchange of medical information.
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Transparency and the Electronic Health Record
The Health Care Trackers Blog
“I am seeing more and more transparency among health care organizations. Just this week Oklahoma became more involved in the process. They launched a new web site called www.okhospitalquality.org.
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Time is of the essence — ARRA as HIT-adoption stimulus bill
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“The world changed yesterday at 1 pm Mountain time,” Steve Lieber, President of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), told over 1,500 attendees of a webinar on February 18.
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Your Doctor Has a Blog
PRNewswire
“Dr. Brett Kotlus and Dr. Charles Mok of Shelby Township use Allure Medical Blog to share information about new cosmetic treatments and also to share information about procedures within their practice.
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Stimulus package contains $19 billion for health care technology spending and adoption of electronic health records
Chanley Howell, WTN News
“On February 17, 2009, President Barack H. Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
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