Vivian Distler, Health Horizons
“MedPedia, which I wrote about last fall, has gone public. Part Wikipedia for health information, part LinkedIn for health professionals, it remains the Health 2.0 darling of TechCrunch (TC).
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Fred Lucas, CNS News
“It could become easier to sell and exchange the health information of Americans under the economic stimulus package that awaits President Barack Obama’s signature Tuesday.
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Jenna Wortham, The New York Times
“Medicine and health are among the most popular topics for Web surfers, but an Internet entrepreneur, James Currier, says the current offerings are inadequate.
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“Provisions in the economic stimulus bill, which President Obama will sign on Feb. 17, impose new consumer protection requirements on vendors of personal health records.
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The CliniCard
“The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, today announced that the Government of Canada, through its Economic Action Plan, is continuing to support the creation of health information systems designed to benefit Canadians by saving time and lives, while also creating economic stimulus.
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Jay Byers, EMR Services of Canada Blog
“When Karen Madill rushed to her hospital emergency room a couple of weeks ago, she forgot her list of prescriptions — an important oversight given that she has multiple health problems and takes about 30 different medications.
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Robert Charette, The Risk Factor
“Heartache and hard work.”
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Outcomes from the 2008 ERBI Cambridge Wireless joint workshop
“The East of England,with its strengths in biotechnology, medical devices, wireless technology and IT data management systems, is well positioned to support the future development of health technology. The interface between these technologies is critical to the development of healthcare.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“In the developed world broadband is king. If faced with a simple dial-up line you can hear the complaints for days.
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Jason Palmer, BBC News
“Three foundations have announced their intention to join in a “mobile health” effort to use mobile technology to provide better healthcare worldwide.
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WTN News
“Living in the “Technology Age” benefits not only daily lives, but also, provides a significantly positive impact on healthcare in the United States.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Connecting for Health is hoping to get Treasury approval in the next few weeks to develop its online health organiser HealthSpace.
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Nanci Bompey, Citizen Times
“It could be a scene straight out of a movie.
A child with asthma has difficulty breathing while at school, so his teacher sends him down the hallway where he sits in front of a video screen. Using a special stethoscope, a doctor who is miles away examines the boy’s chest, sends a prescription to his local pharmacy and instructs the student to go back to class.
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Michael Cross, The Guardian
“Someone in the Department of Health is an optimist, or has a wicked sense of humour.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Community pharmacists, end of life care teams and ambulance staff will gain access to the Summary Care Record in a series of pilot projects over the next few months, NHS Connecting for Health has revealed.
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Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog
“Grammy-winning Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour is spearheading a charity album to benefit and raise awareness for the IntraHealth OPEN initiative to help bring open-source health IT to health workers across Africa.
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Ian Ryder, British Computer Society
“Buried in the government’s Coroners and Justice Bill1 are proposals to make very significant changes to the Data Protection Act (DPA)1998.
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PRNewswire
“HealthTransaction Network(R) has begun operations with the first national, electronic healthcare transaction network in the United States.
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PRNewswire
“my1HIE, LLC (My One Health Information Exchange) announced today that over one million e-Prescriptions have been sent from over 700 affiliated healthcare providers throughout Southeastern Michigan.
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Lygeia Ricciardi, Project HealthDesign Blog
“To shed further light on Observations of Daily Living (ODLs)–a central theme of Project HealthDesign’s work, present and future–I interviewed grantee Stephanie Fonda, PhD, a Senior Research Scientist at the TRUE Research Foundation.
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