Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz County, a California-based independent physician organization and the lead participant in the Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange, has implemented a community-wide virtual health record for its physicians.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The issue around ownership of electronic health information must be addressed before it can be used to improve healthcare, says a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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epractice.eu
“On 4 March 2009, Bulgaria launched a National Health Portal integrated with electronic personal ambulatory books (eLAKs). 40 000 state employees will be the first users of the eLAKs.
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Veronica Torrejón Of The Morning Call
“To see a endocrinologist like Bhatt, who specializes in treating patients with diabetes, Paslawsky would have had to drive more than two hours round trip. But with telemedicine — now available at St. Luke’s-Miners Memorial Hospital where Paslawsky is a patient — he can see a specialist without traveling far from his hometown in Schuylkill County.
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Tim Gee, Medical Connectivity
“Awareness is growing about the challenges of developing and maintaining safe and effective wireless medical devices. What with IEC80001 moving forward (due to be finalized next year) and the recent series of wireless medical device workshops, people in hospitals and among vendors are asking more of the hard questions about wireless.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“When the ill-fated HealthConnect program was being developed from 1999 to 2004 or so there was the development of a series of consultation documents that discussed what Australia needed, what experience was in the rest of the world, what issues were likely to be encountered and ultimately an approach to how the actual systems might be created, integrated and deployed was developed.
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Scott Shreeve, Crossover Health
“There have been several interesting reports that have recently been published regarding the adoption and use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) by our health care system.
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Virginia Prescott, Word of Mouth
“We’ve talked about Google, Microsoft and WebMD services that encourage people to upload, store and manage their medical records online. The upside: you and your doctors can have immediate access to your medical information when you need it. The downside: security.
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PhysOrg.com
“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
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Neil Seeman, Longwoods Essays
“According to the Talmud, there are two times you’re allowed to boast: when courting a potential spouse, or when looking for a job. In the current recession, many people are searching for a job, and so put their best résumé forward for everyone to see.
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Samantha Werner and Eric Fishman, EMRBlog
“During your lifetime you will see dozens of physicians each of whom specializes in a different field, and each of whom compiles a separate file of information about your health and medical conditions, including thoughts about their decision making processes.
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Rodger Pinto, Electronic Health Record Adoption
1. Expect the Physician to shoulder the financial burden of paying for the EMR.
2. Create the Electronic Medical Record system so that it is so complicated that it takes years to achieve full integration to the practice.
3. Create a one size fits all EMR system
4. Create standards that make the system cost more to purchase and more difficult to use
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Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“Although I confess to a strong bias in this regard, I have always believed that lab test results are a critical component of any electronic medical record. This rule is particularly applicable for PHRs because many lab test results are both understandable and relevant for healthcare consumers.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I previously posted about how the selection of CCHIT as the certification criteria for the HITECH act excludes open source EHR. I took more of a practical look at why an open source EHR product wouldn’t ever pay for CCHIT certification.
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ZAMP Bionews
“Documentation of hearing loss in the electronic medical record (EMR) can remind physicians that it is necessary to accommodate patients’ communication needs and thus improve the quality of interpersonal interaction and information transmission between patients and physicians.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Connecting for Health says it is hoping to sign up 4m patients to its online personal health record HealthSpace by 2014.
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Actualités du DMP
“Le 10 mars 2009, le comité d’agrément, institué par le décret du 4 janvier 2006 et chargé de donner au ministre chargé de la santé un avis motivé sur les demandes d’agrément pour l’ hébergement de données de santé à caractère personnel
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The Cleveland Clinic, a not-for-profit, multispecialty academic medical center, will use radio frequency identification to track patient files.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Remote patient monitoring technology enables healthcare providers to treat patients before their conditions becomes more acute, according to a new study from the Spyglass Consulting Group.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Montana has launched a pilot program that facilitates data sharing to detect outbreaks associated with bioterrorism.
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