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RedOrbit
“The MDOT Pilot Project follows the experiences of 13 TB patients, their patient assistants, and health care workers over a 30-day period in Nairobi, Kenya. Patients were provided a mobile phone capable of sending and receiving video and text messages. Patients and their assistants video-captured the patient taking their prescribed dose of TB medication in their home and immediately transmitted it to a central database where health care workers viewed the video to assure compliance with the DOT protocol.
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23 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Africa | Tags: Cellphone, Compliance, Medication, Messaging, Monitoring, Remote, Video
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“It was a quiet weekend. I got a little upset by a quote in PCWorld.
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23 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | EHR: EHR | Tags: Consumer, Empowerment, emr, Health 2.0, Internet, Patient, phr, Standards
OpensourceReleaseFeed
“I can tell you that in Health IT, FOSS is the future. Imagine a world where there is GNU/Linux, but no Microsoft Windows. That is what is coming for Health IT. There has been an utter market failure by proprietary EHR vendors over the last 30 years. Part of that is the fault of the Clinical community, they have been very resistant to computerization.
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23 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CCHIT, HIMSS, Open Source
Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Insider
“A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal and should be scrapped or redesigned, a major new report on government databases has claimed.
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23 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Data Sharing, Opt out
e-Health Insider
“Connecting for Health has dropped the requirement for patients to appear in person if they wish to opt out of having a Summary Care record (SCR).
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23 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Opt out, Patient, summary-care-records
Rob Preston, InformationWeek
“The federal government has set aside close to $20 billion to “encourage” hospitals, doctors’ offices, and other health care providers to start digitizing their medical records and processes. If that’s not enough stimulus for providers to venture into the 21st century, watch as they go the way of the corner hardware store.
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21 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption
Sindya Bhanoo, PCWorld
“President Barack Obama has promised $19 billion dollars of the stimulus package to turn every medical record in the country digital by 2014. But a group of doctors at the Harvard Medical School are warning that the shift to electronic medical records is not worth the cost.
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21 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Certification, Costs, Health Information Exchange, Health Information Technology, Medication Errors
Grant Gross, PCWorld
“If the US$19 billion for health IT in a recently passed U.S. economic stimulus package goes only to driving up adoption of electronic health records, the U.S. health care system will not improve, some medical experts said Friday.
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21 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Data Sharing, Health Information Technology, Interoperability, Standards
Sally Gainsbury, HSJ
“Patients wanting to opt out of the electronic summary care record should be able to do so without making an application in person, the Department of Health has said.
New guidance issued by the department’s Connecting for Health directorate says that patients should be able opt out using web forms or by post.
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Opt out, Patient
ICTZorg
“Het St. Elisabeth ziekenhuis uit Tilburg was het zat: de steeds wisselende en te globale indicatoren die hen vanuit Den Haag werden opgelegd.
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Access, Surgery
Ontario eHealth
“This is the first eHealth Strategy of the new provincial agency, eHealth Ontario. Legally created on September 29, 2008, this new organization has been given the exciting opportunity to take the lead role in harnessing information technology and innovation to improve patient care, safety and access in support of the government’s health strategy.
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: Report | Country: Canada | Tags: Diabetes, e-Health, e-prescribing, Health Information Technology, Innovation, Medication
i-Med
“Le 11 Mars 2009, une table ronde était organisée par le Conseil National de l’Ordre des Médecins (CNOM) lors du MEDEC 2009 sur le thème : “Échanges professionnels sécurisés : Pourquoi et comment l’Ordre passe à l’action ?”.
Le Collectif Inter associatif Sur la Santé (CISS) affirme que pour échanger les données de santé par messagerie, « la procédure doit veiller à respecter le secret professionnel et recueillir le consentement éclairé du patient ».
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | Tags: Confidentiality, Consent, Data Sharing, Messaging
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“IBM, the U.S. Social Security Administration and MedVirginia, Virginia’s regional health information organization, have launched an electronic records exchange system to help speed the process of granting disability benefits.
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, NHIN
Healthcare Informatics
“Health Level Seven (HL7) says it will participate in the new SDO (standards development organization) Charter Organization (SCO), whose purpose is to increase coordination and collaboration on healthcare informatics standards development.
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: HL7, Information Management, Standards
BBC Today
“The NHS database would provide online records for up to 50 million patients, but the project could be “fatally undermined” by a number of GPs who feel there is no way to ensure patient confidentiality.
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: Podcast, UK EHR | Country: Country, UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Confidentiality
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“Apparently the concept of Information Therapy has arrived in Britain as well.
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands, Spain, UK | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands, EHR Spain | Tags: Health Information, information-therapy, Patient
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“All I can say it is starting to get exciting.
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | Tags: e-prescribing
Kate Devlin, Telegraph
“They have called on the world’s most popular search engine to review its links to “inappropriate advertisements”.
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Italy, UK | Tags: Internet, Search
John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’m often amazed at how many people underestimate the impact that an EHR implementation will affect a practice. Actually, maybe far too many people understand this and that’s why EHR adoption is so low.
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20 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Implementation, Patient Management
Nancy Ferris, Government Health IT
“A group of health policy experts is calling on Congress and the Obama administration to support development of a rapid learning network that would share clinical information on Medicare and Medicaid patients in the hope of learning what medical treatments work best.
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19 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Data Mining, Data Sharing, Research, Secondary Data Use
