Health Informatics
“Chicago-headquartered Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) says it will accelerate the development of advanced technology certification programs — encompassing Clinical Decision Support, Interoperability, Quality and Security — in order to complete them all in the upcoming 2009-2010 development cycle.
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We were sad that we had to cancel our June Event on “Patient 2.0 Empowerment”. It will very probably be the theme of our 2010 event.
However, we now can announce:
The 6th ICMCC Annual Event will take place at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2009 on 9 and 10 September.
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“At the beginning of his primer Halamka gives definitions for all three, EHR, EMR, PHR.
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“The new JAMA article may also explain why HIT is so often done so poorly as to present a mission hostile user experience
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KevinMD.com
“An op-ed in the Washingon Post criticizes the influx of federal dollars to fund the spread of the current generation of electronic medical records.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“Last week DoHA and NEHTA conducted a briefing on the National E-Health Strategy.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“Oasis Medical Solutions announced today that its eponymous electronic patient record system has been successfully deployed at Benenden Hospital Trust.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“The first Med-e-Tel telemedicine and e-health conference to be held since the European Commission’s Telemedicine Communication will take place in Luxembourg next week.
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eHealthServer
“eHealth educational programs are becoming a reality in Universities, enabling health assistance to remote areas without the need for traveling, a better interaction between educators and students in difficult access areas such as operating theaters, and the continuous learning by health professionals with the use of multimedia material concerning specific health subjects.
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Erica Werner, Washington Post
“We need to get this right,” said Dr. David Kibbe, a senior adviser at the American Academy of Family Physicians. “Adoption of information technology for its own sake really is not the end game.”
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Matthew Hay Brown, Baltimore Sun
“That future can be glimpsed in Dundalk, where H. Edward Parker has been a patient at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians for decades. Now the retired high school principal sits down next to his doctor as they use a computer program to review his history, look up the latest research and discuss new courses of treatment.
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Arik Hesseldahl, Newsweek
“Dan Diamond is a family practitioner who works at the Doctors Clinic in Silverdale, Wash., not far from Seattle. If he forgets his stethoscope when heading to work, he won’t go back home for it, since he can borrow another at the practice. Not so Dr. Diamond’s iPhone.
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“Perhaps the most engaging presentation at the New America Foundation and CTIA’s Wireless Health IT event in the Senate’s Dirksen office building was the one given by Michael Barrett, managing partner at Critical Mass Consulting and author of the well-known Healthcare Unbound report.
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Nictiz
“Tijdens de helemaal-bij-borrel die parallel aan de beurs Zorg & ICT werd georganiseerd, kwam een levendige discussie op gang over de Personal Health Records (PHR’s), de commerciële varianten op het EPD.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“As the Internet disrupted health care information in the late 1990s through the 2000s, watch out for the phone to make the health world flat, taking off from Tom Friedman’s phrasing about The World.
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Andrew Colley, Australian IT
“If you’re ever a patient in a regional hospital and facing a tricky medical dilemma it’s becoming increasingly likely your doctor will be beamed to your bedside by high-speed broadband.
The federal Government has endorsed a telemedicine trial by Victorian health authorities, using videoconferencing technology that has already been used successfully in NSW.
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Tim Bajarin, PCMag
“Two apps from the demo last week at One Infinite Loop take advantage of this new OS in a very important way: These apps underline the emerging role of the iPhone as a medical assistant.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Now that Healthcare IT is part of the stimulus and newsworthy, I receive many questions from reporters about the fundamentals of healthcare IT.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“Here we see an example of the problem of the fractured governance of e-Health in the ‘unlucky country’!
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