Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“HMSA, American Well and Kaiser Permanente hosted the meeting which focused on online care. David Kibbe kicked off the meeting with a little reprise of the Great American Health 2.0 Motorcycle Tour. Jay Sanders “father of telemedicine” gave a great presentation going back to future showing the “radio doctor” in a picture from 1924, which looked pretty much like what online care looks like now!
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Katie Scott, Wired
“By 2050, Europe is expected to have more than 80 million people over the age of 65. Many will be able to live active, independent lives, but some will need more help, and with birth-rates dropping some countries are looking at the options for robotic care.
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news.smashits.com
“Everyone talks about the ‘ageing’ society when large numbers of elderly people need home care. Now German researchers have unveiled a ’smart’ house which is programmed to help elderly residents live at home with dignity.
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“This video was presented at the National HISPC Conference in Bethesda MD in March 2009 and provides a powerful message about electronic health information technology and exchange and the related privacy and security aspects. Please feel free to use this video at any event where health care providers would benefit from awareness of these issues and how to tap in to the Provider Education Toolkit websites and resources.”
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“South Australia is developing Australias first fully integrated statewide electronic health record system through its careconnect.sa program. As part of the State Governments health reform agenda, careconnect.sa will improve communications for patients, doctors, nurses, midwives and other health care professionals within the public health system by streamlining and interconnecting information systems.
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Linda Geddes, New Scientist
“AID workers in Zimbabwe need all the help that they can get, so a website that enables them to share information could be a big boost. Although Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak is finally showing signs of abating, the site could help relief groups as they attempt to rebuild the country’s shattered infrastructure.”
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Linda Geddes, New Scientist, 24 March 2009
Diario Médico
“Jennifer McCabe Gorman es una jefa de relaciones con los pacientes de Organized Wisdom y co-fundadora de la iniciativa holandesa Next Health.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Doctors Paul Tang of Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Thomas Lee, head of Partners argue in their “Perspective” article that tethered, physician-hosted PHRs will be the true successors in the market as these solutions will provide the greatest value to end consumers.
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Barbara A. Duck, The Medical Quack
“One more entry into the field of personal health records through the Louisville Health Information Exchange. In essence from it appears this will offer consumers in the Louisville area another choice on what they can do and how they can access their health records, share, etc.
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Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog
“Dear Calvin Jablonski, Rocky Ostrand, Maggiemae Ph.D., or whatever your real name(s) is/are,
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., chairman of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, that organization you love to hate, has agreed to meet with the free and open-source software development community during next month’s HIMSS conference.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“The point here is that, “it’s about the data and knowledge-sharing, stupid,” which is a sentence that the peer-reviewed NEJM would probably not allow in its learned pages.
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i-Med
“Est-ce un des premiers effets Robin ? Le référentiel de constitution des dossiers de demande d’agrément pour les hébergeurs de données de santé est enfin disponible depuis le 24 mars 2009.
Après 7 ans d’attente et en dehors des éphémères agréments pour les expérimentions du DMP en 2006, les premiers hébergeurs de santé pourraient techniquement être agrées dans 6 mois !
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“Hospital management conduct is not bound by traditional business law only, just as physicians and other clinicians hold additional obligations.
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PRNewswire
“Pulse-oximeters are the medical standard for monitoring a patient’s blood oxygen and pulse rate and have been in use since the late 1980s. These monitors are a vital tool in assessing a patient’s well being during regular exams, surgery and in hospital ICUs world-wide. The technology was invented over 20 years ago and relies on light to detect this vital parameter.
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theMobileHealthCrowd
“Clarifying legal rights of patient control over electronic health records could be the key to making the best use of the huge amount of electronic medical information that the “Stimulus” funding will create in the next few years, according to a national commentary co-authored by a Wake Forest University and a Duke University faculty member.
When electronic health information is created “for each person in the United States by 2014,” as is the aim of the recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA, or the “Stimulus”), a massive amount of medical information will suddenly exist in a new form, for which no clear “ownership” laws or regulations exist.”
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theMobileHealthCrowd, 26 March 2009
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“According to experts, an integrated personal health record could be the best option for improving the doctor-patient relationship.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“David Blumenthal (left), nominated to be National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (NCHIT), will not give the industry’s Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) a free hand to define standards for Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems mandated under the Obama stimulus.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“In the same edition of the New England Journal of Medicine where Dr. David Blumenthal laid out a direction for health IT reform, and health reform generally, is a survey showing just how tough his job will be.
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Caroline Trump, Associated Content
“Everyone’s talking about “going green” these days and the medical field is no exception. One way medical, dental, and chiropractic offices are contributing to the cause and saving time and money simultaneously, is the adoption of the Electronic Medical Record.
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