Business Wire
“Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) has announced that its WebChart Enterprise Health Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution has been selected by Google for its onsite employee health clinics.
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The Medical Quack
“I have posted several articles relative to traveling or temporary healthcare workers and you can real the partial clips below or go to the entire post. Surgeons are now working at several locations, so are doctors at facilities such as Kaiser as they tend to be less expensive employees and everyone is cutting budgets and corners every which way they can.
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Jean-Jacques Fraslin, i-Med
“2009 était l’année des revenants pour le MEDEC. Orange qui avait abandonné le secteur de la santé en 2004 avait fait son come-back en 2008.
Après le naufrage il y a dix ans de Libéralis, la CSMF se lance dans la construction d’un nouveau Titanic, le DM-Pro associé à CEGEDIM.
Quant à l’ASIP, son premier travail sera de ressusciter le dossier médical baladeur, un projet qui avait déjà été expérimenté puis abandonné il y 25 ans.
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Kimberly Moore, Mobihealthnews
“Patients with chronic diseases make choices that can dramatically affect their health everyday. Those who are able to manage their chronic diseases successfully do so primarily by learning about their disease, mastering self-management techniques and building a relationship with their physician.
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Lygeia Ricciardi, Project HealthDesign Blog
“Laura Landro’s article on online records in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal raises many good points, including the message that electronic medical records can be an effective tool for patient engagement, in addition to providing support to healthcare providers.
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Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb
“One of the most pleasing Web trends we’re seeing in 2009 is the increasing penetration of web apps into the real world. Web applications for healthcare is one example.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“The industry charged with scaring physicians about HIPAA requirements (and avoiding automation like a plague) has gone into overdrive over changes to the law created by the Obama stimulus.
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Surveillance & Society - Vol 6, No 2 (2009)
“In this special edition of Surveillance & Society we ask whether increasing medical surveillance does, indeed, constitute a dangerous future and what that future might hold. In particular, this special edition seeks to explore the interplay between surveillance as reassurance and obligation on the one hand, and resistance and negotiation on the other.”
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“Bristish IxAction Alliance member, the Patient Information Forum (PiF), has just released a report, “Information: First Line Therapy?”
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Vivian Distler, Health Horizons
“Sick City is a new Twitter mashup that tracks people’s tweets about being sick, having sore throats, and other physical maladies. The public health benefit of this?
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José Mª Juárez, Diario Médico
“Entre los temas abordados, ha destacado el tiempo que transcurrirá hasta que los sistemas informáticos de las autonomías sean interoperables. Mientras Lamata considera que esta posibilidad puede hacerse realidad en cuatro años, Güemes lo ve complicado “porque ni siquiera tenemos un sistema único en Madrid”.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“It’s an issue we at ICMCC have been focusing at since our very early days (see The Information Paradigm) [1].
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Julie Barnes, The New Health Dialogue
“We get all fired up about investing in health care reform — like the $19 billion + in stimulus funds we’re pouring into Health Information Technology.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“It is my view that what is presently going on with the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA), NEHTA and various other actors at present sets new standards for incompetence and stupidity for an organisation whose track-record in the e-health domain was always abysmal.
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Vicki Gordon, CRANA
“I went to the National E-Health Strategy Forum information session in Alice Springs last week and thought I’d share some of this with you. I certainly learnt a lot about what’s happening in this regard and kinda wondering if much is generally known out there hence me putting this together.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Took me some time to think this one through, but finally a light-bulb went off in my head! What are KP members most enthralled with in using the KP PHR – its getting their lab results quickly, online and with background information on what those results mean to take appropriate action(s).
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Mike Vizard, eWeek
“In this eWeek podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the vice president for Information on Demand in IBM’s Information Group, Tom Inman, explains what needs to be really down to take IT in healthcare to a higher level.”
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Paul H. Keckley, Laura Eselius, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
“The 2009 Survey of Health Care Consumers, conducted by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, is Deloitte’s second annual study of health care consumers’ attitudes, behaviors and unmet needs. It offers health care industry leaders and policymakers a comprehensive and timely perspective about how Americans approach their health, health care and health insurance.
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Howard Anderson, Health Data Management
“Some 57% of consumers want a secure Internet site that would enable them to access their medical records, schedule office visits, refill prescriptions and pay medical bills, a new survey shows.
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Mark Scrimshire, Ekive
“A question that seems to be bubbling around on the Internet about the Personal Health Record platforms from Microsoft and Google is
“Will Microsoft or Google sell my Personal Health Data?”
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