The Telegraph
“Dr Rupert McShane is running a two-year trial at the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust which has become the first in the country to fit dementia patients with the pocket GPS devices.
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Sarah Rubenstein, WSJ Health Blog
“While lots of folks say it’s important to digitize patients’ records, sometimes the whole thing can be pretty abstract. Electronic records no doubt would be helpful if we end up in the hospital and doctors there need quick access to our medical histories. But how much would patients use them day-to-day?
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The Wall Street Journal
“For two years, the 41-year-old employee of an educational nonprofit in Sacramento, Calif., has been using the My Health Manager Web site provided by her health plan, Kaiser Permanente, to access her electronic medical records. When she has her cholesterol checked, or one of her two children is tested for strep throat, she goes there to click on links that explain the test results.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“AllOne Health, one of several vendors offering tools for the display and transmission of personal health records via mobile phone, has added more than 42,000 potential users to its network through two recent partnerships.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“After a very long time having problems recovering from my chemo and still far from where I want to be, I will try to make up for a personal frustration. Working on this site every day, I come across so many interesting things written about medical and care ICT and very often on the compunetics part of it.
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Danny Bradbury, The Guardian
“He has promised to turn the US upside down, making its oil driven economy greener, educating its children and ploughing money into infrastructure. But Barack Obama’s biggest challenge lies in healthcare.
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Karla Islas Pieck, Diario Médico
“El Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, de Badalona, y el Hospital Montepríncipe, de Madrid, han implantado una nueva técnica para realizar la fijación vertebral de forma mínimamente invasiva con ayuda de un navegador que ofrece imágenes en tiempo real dentro del quirófano y permite alcanzar un 98 por ciento de éxito en este tipo de intervenciones.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Today, Apple introduced its latest OS for the iPhone, V3.0. This new version is a tremendous upgrade from the previous version and will allow Apple, we believe, to continue to dominate the mobile App market.
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Bill Crounse, HealthBlog
“Our current model for healthcare delivery does a reasonable job meeting the needs of people in developed nations around the world. However, even in those nations that provide good care for citizens there are growing concerns about aging populations, the increasing incidence of chronic disease, and shortages of skilled healthcare professionals.
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“As many have now observed, electronic medical records products on the market are clunky, fail to support the cognitive and workflow needs of clinicians
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Brian Robinson, Government Health IT
“The concept of using patient-controlled electronic health record banks as the basis for health information exchange programs got a boost March 16 with the launch of three pilot projects in Washington state.
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Chad A. Eckes, Healthcare IT News
“In 2005, after 13 years in the financial services industry, I migrated into the healthcare industry. I was about five weeks into my new career when a major network downtime occurred.
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Carey Candrian, Syndicom
“Recently, the editorial, The Computer Will See You Now was published in the NY Times and interestingly – as White Coat points out – there was another Op-Ed piece by the same title written in 2005 also in the NY Times by a different author.
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Stephen B. Soumerai and Sumit R. Majumdar, The Washington Post
“President Obama’s proposed health-care reforms include investing $50 billion over five years to promote health information technology. Most notably, paper medical records would be replaced with linked electronic records to try to improve quality of care and lower medical costs.
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Lisa Fenichel, A Healthy Blog
“The most recent edition of Health Affairs is chock full of articles about e-health, which is not surprising, given the amount of attention it is getting everywhere, thanks to the ARRA — American Reinvestment and Recovery Act — appropriation of $19 billion for health information technology.
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Lygeia Ricciardi, Project HealthDesign Blog
“Yesterday Modern Healthcare ran an article (free registration is required for access) about the Mayo Clinic’s delay in deployment of Microsoft’s HealthVault personal health record (PHR) platform
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Charlie Harp, The Healthcare IT Guy
“In healthcare to have a meaningful exchanges we require a ‘language’ that can describe characteristics about a given situation with as little ambiguity as possible. The human brain is designed to process and recognize patterns. It’s why clouds look like bunnies and that potato chip looks like Elvis.
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Steve Nowottny, Pulse
“An NHS website designed to offer patients email access to their GPs is set to have more than four million users within five years, a new report reveals.
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Melanie Stawicki Azam, Orlando Business Journal
“But while the use of technology may be on the rise, physician attitudes regarding it haven’t changed much since 2004. Some doctors embrace the new measures, but a much larger number viewed health care technology as frustrating and difficult to use.
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