Deborah Leyva, Healthcare & Technology
“Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I write about the essential need for education on healthcare information technology use, but it was interesting to read this quote about the need for education.
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Health Care Trackers Blog
“I have been in a couple of different physicians offices the past couple of days. I have noticed computers mounted on the wall in anticipation. There is excitement in the air.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“We can hear the champagne bottles popping in legacy healthcare information technology (HIT) vendors offices across the country as they celebrate what is arguably the biggest windfall in their history, the HITECH Act and its $19.2B, that is tucked into the Stimulus Bill which President Obama will likely sign on Monday.
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MedGadget
“Anvita Health, formerly known as SafeMed, is embracing the Android phone platform by rolling out a mobile interface for Google Health.
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William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers
“The $787 billion economic stimulus legislation includes $19 billion to modernize health-care information technology systems, a move that’s intended to lead to the computerization of all Americans’ medical records by 2014.
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“I have observed unseemly things about health IT in my nearly two decades in medical informatics. For example, my dealings with health IT vendor HBOC (no relation to HBO & Co. and now merged into McKesson) whose erstwhile CEO was cooking the books, and a-little-too-cozy relationships between hospital CIO’s and health IT vendor CEO’s.
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PRNewswire
“The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. standards and conformity assessment system, is working to facilitate the use of electronic health information to support global clinical research activities.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“Micro-blogging service Twitter has been used by US surgeons to provide real-time updates on a live robot-assisted surgical procedure.
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John Leland, The New York Times
“Increasingly, many older people who live alone are not truly alone. They are being watched by a flurry of new technologies designed to enable them to live independently and avoid expensive trips to the emergency room or nursing homes.
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Pia Christensen, Covering Health
“Last fall, a trio of researchers from the Rijeka School of Medicine in Croatia published a paper examining that peculiar class of people who may be loosely described as health bloggers.
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RedOrbit
“For patients who have drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, it’s critical to monitor the disease as closely as possible. That means monthly testing throughout a two-year course of powerful antibiotics, with injections six days a week for the first six months.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“With the tech-heavy stimulus package nearly passed through Congress it’s time to consider how it can be implemented.
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Meredith Abreu Ressi, Manhattan Research
“Manhattan Research Vice President of Research Meredith Abreu Ressi gives an in-depth look at the growing mHealth market, which now stands at over 10 million U.S. adults using mobile devices for health information.
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Aaron DeVries, HealthTechnica
“I hear physicians and clinicians complaining endlessly about how they want to make decisions and not be lead around by the Information Technology folks.
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Sam Collins, Healthcare IT News EU
“UK pharmacists will gain access to patients’ electronic Care Record for the first time under plans by NHS IT chiefs. Access has previously been limited to general practitioners.
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Trisha Torrey, Every Patient's Advocate
“I exchange thoughts with healthcare IT people on a daily basis over at Twitter. So many of them seem perplexed at why we patients look at putting our medical records on the internet with trepidation.
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Elisabeth Cohen, CNN
“Campbell Brown talks with senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen about online accessibility of health records.
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Elisabeth Cohen, CNN
“CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen shows how your medical records could be easily accessed and what you can do to stop it.”
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Elisabeth Cohen, CNN
“CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen takes a look at the economic stimulus and how it affects health care.”
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Steve Nowottny, Pulse
“Controversial plans to force GPs to send their PCT a list of patients who had opted out of the Summary Care Record have been dropped after fears the request could breach confidentiality.
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