Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“The Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology has released information online to help organizations participate in the Nationwide Health Information Network. (NHIN).
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“According to recent studies, the success of Massachusetts hospitals and physicians in adopting healthcare information technology is due in large part to incentives from health plans and state-mandated requirements.
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The Earth Times
“WaveMark, a leading provider of real-time inventory management solutions for high value medical products, and Noblis, provider of the RASMAS recall management solution, announce an agreement to offer supply-chain and patient safety service interoperability that provides the most immediate, automated, and documented recall capability for medical devices on the market today.
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Joe Bugajski, Analysis from the Bottom Up
“During the last week of January 2009 a faulty electronic, networked, health information data model nearly killed me despite its vaunted status as a component of two state-of-the-art, health information systems at two of the world’s most advanced medical facilities.
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Karen Katz, Mobihealthnews
“With the aging baby boomer population, 259 million cell phone users in the United States and the buzz focused the Obama’s Stimulus Package, the market is likely to see an up-tick in mobile-health applications as a means to make access to healthcare easier and cut costs.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Insider
“NHS chief executive David Nicholson told MPs on Wednesday that the Department of Health is going to tender for alternatives to the iSoft Lorenzo and Cerner Millennium care record systems.
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Trevor Cradduck, Telehealth Canada
“Over the course of the next three to four months, Stanton Territorial Hospital, Inuvik Regional Hospital, H. H. Williams Hospital and the Fort Smith Health Centre will go filmless. Physicians and technologists will no longer have to create or view diagnostic images using film.
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Suzanna Hoppszallern, Healthcaregoesmobile.com
“Since 2002, Hospitals & Health Networks has recognized hospitals that make exceptional use of wireless technology as part of their IT strategy. It’s no surprise that more than 80 percent of these Most Wireless Award winners have also been named to H&HN’s Most Wired list.
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Marjorie Korn, Casper Star Tribune
“Dr. David Wheeler is a world-class neurologist who practices in Casper, but he’s able to evaluate possible stroke victims 50 miles due east at a hospital in Douglas on a moment’s notice.
All Wheeler needs is a laptop with a camera, Internet access and a telephone to diagnose and treat patients at the Memorial Hospital of Converse County _ without ever leaving his office at the Wyoming Medical Center.
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Neil Seeman and Carlos Rizo, Longwoods Essays
“Researchers are accustomed to estimating the prevalence of mood disorders through surveys or through analysis of physician billing databases. The data are disquieting.
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“ERBI Medtech and Cambridge Wireless recently published a report that recommended governments consider a dedicated frequency band for medical devices in order to boost confidence and stimulate uptake of wireless technology within healthcare environments.
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The Medical Quack
“More clinical trials have moved to India and China, but one thing we might think about is the way we market and involve patients, that’s right involve patients and their doctors.
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Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times
“Enrollment shortages have delayed or canceled trials on experimental therapies. Researchers are trying to reverse that trend, in part by using databases to connect patients with possible new cures.
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Will Dunham, Reuters
“As many as 75 percent of U.S. doctors will be writing electronic prescriptions within five years, thanks to new federal spending to encourage e-prescribing, according to a forecast released on Monday.
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Hein Bosman, ICTZorg
“Ziekenhuizen en specialisten herkennen conclusies IGZ-rapport over de zorg aan kankerpatiënten tot op zekere hoogte.
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“Ed Bennet, hospital web manager at the University of Maryland Medical System has kept a running list of social media accounts managed by U.S. hospitals for some time now-his most recent update tracks the popularity of YouTube accounts vs. Twitter accounts.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“A reader recently sent me a couple personal stories about EHR implementations that I thought worth sharing. I’m not going to say that these are the typical implementations, but I will say that I’ve heard stories like this far too often to ignore.
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Personal Health Information Privacy
“I don’t know that providers need to truly believe in something before they implement it — or even after they implement it. As a healthcare provider, there are many things I must do or need to do for a variety of reasons, regardless of whether I believe in their value.
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
‘The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., one of the nation’s premier and best-known healthcare organizations, has yet to deploy the HealthVault personal health record from Microsoft Corp., despite a big-splash publicity notice linking of the two organizations more than a year ago, according to Mayo spokesman Karl Oestreich.
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Unfortunately, we had to cancel the ICMCC Event on “Patient 2.0 Empowerment – EHR for Personalizing and Improving Care”, June 2009.
This is due to a number of circumstances and we apologise for any inconveniences.
However, ICMCC will be present at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2009.
