Project HealthDesign
Through applications that gather health information from everyday life, next- generation personal health records provide individuals with new tools to help them engage in and manage their health.
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Anita Huslin, Washington Post
“The $19 billion prescribed in Congress’s economic stimulus package to bring America’s health-care records into the electronic age is a welcome opportunity for information technology firms seeking to build market share in a still-young industry.
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The Telegraph
“A prototype of the hand-held device is already being tested by British scientists, who say it could be on the market in two years.
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Health Care Trackers Blog
“By using EHRs physicians today can strengthen relationships with their patients and improve the quality of care.
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Smart Card Alliance
“Healthcare is seeing a steady and increasing dependence on information technology that is rapidly transforming the practice of medicine and the delivery of care.
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Healthcare Informatics
“Findings from a new report from Orem, Utah-based KLAS suggest that organizations have very limited awareness of the major RTLS vendors and how their products are being used.
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Healthcare Informatics
“Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital (Downers Grove, Ill.) has selected the Charlotte, N.C.-based Amelior ORTracker system from Patient Care Technology System (PCTS) to improve the efficiency and operating capacity of its 35,000-square-foot, 15-OR suite surgical services department.
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iMarketInsights
“The “virtual doctor visit” is a relatively new concept in health care provision.
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John Carvel, The Guardian
“Doctors are “extremely concerned” about planned legislation which would allow the Department of Health to share information on NHS databases with other ministries and private companies.
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Jay Byers, EMR Services of Canada Blog
“Canada’s health care system contains almost 400,000 general practitioners, more than 700 hospitals and 1,600 long-term care facilities.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“The folks on Twitter last night were getting pretty excited on the #healthcomm discussions. Several people asked for case studies of the benefits of Electronic Medical Records.
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Anne-Kathrin Seibt, Innovations Report
“Ein wichtiger Stellhebel für die Verbesserung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Kliniken sind moderne IT-Lösungen.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
The real purpose of health IT is not to ration care, but to increase the supply of care.
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John Carvel, The Guardian
“The confidentiality of medical records is threatened by government plans to relax laws on data protection, doctors’ leaders told the Guardian yesterday.
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“This Report provides an overview of the state of the art in RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) applications in healthcare delivery.
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Neil Durham, HealthcareRepublic
“Electronic care records may cause significant strain on NHS trusts’ budgets and staff if a programme is rolled out before the issues it presents are tackled, according to the NHS Confederation.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“In this blog our focus is in the e-Health domain. Others can address the rest of the report.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek
“In 2004, President George W. Bush set the goal of establishing e-health records for most Americans within a decade. Five years later, funding included in the economic stimulus package–as much as $21 billion in the Senate version of the bill–could make it happen.
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Kim Painter, USA TODAY
“Phoenix neurologist Bart Demaerschalk was enjoying Thanksgiving dessert at home when he got a message: A woman in an emergency room 200 miles away in Kingman had developed slurred speech and drooping facial muscles during her own holiday dinner.
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Cecelia Goodnow, Seattle PI
“Social networks were in their infancy in 2004 when Keith Schorsch’s struggle with Lyme disease began. Back then, connecting with other patients often meant navigating a patchwork of listservs and chat rooms.
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