Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“In the past few weeks Google Health has caught a good amount of flack for inaccuracies that made their way into a patient’s personal health record, and whether it deserves blame or not, you have to admit Google did play a part in that debacle.
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Dr. Gwenn, Dr. Gwenn Is In
“Last week I spent 1 ½ days attending the Health 2.0 Conference in Boston. Having heard the buzz for a while but not having attended before, I was very much looking forward to experiencing this for myself.
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Kathryn Foxhall, Government Health IT
“The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene wants to integrate a new substance abuse screening tool into the city’s electronic health record system.
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Government Health IT
“The companies providing electronic medical records for the United Kingdom’s National Health Service have until November to launch their systems or they could be out of a job, according to a silicon.com report.
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“During a plenary session at the American Telemedicine Association event in Las Vegas this week Colonel Jeffrey Davies, Acting Commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command described an mHealth project for wounded soldiers who have recently returned home from conflicts overseas.
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Health Care Trackers Blog
“I am so excited to see so many hospitals, clinics and physicians offices transitioning to the electronic health record (EHR). As a consultant, I definitely see the advantages for the practices on a daily basis. The goal of the electronic health record is to place comprehensive health information at the fingertips of any medical provider who treats that person.
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DrAlanDappen, Better Health
“In early 2006, four years into running my current medical practice, doctokr Family Medicine, I got a call from my medical malpractice carrier.
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Arun Mohan, Gordon Moore, The Health Care Blog
“Health information technology offers great promise to patients. Patients can access their medical information online, communicate with doctors by email, schedule appointments through the web and take advantage of numerous tools to manage their own illnesses. They can become equal partners in their care.
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Vivian Distler, Health Horizons
“As soon as I saw the headline, I knew I wanted to blog about it. But work keeps getting in the way, so I haven’t even had a chance to read all the way through the article in the April 23rd issue of Business Week.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The Health Care Communication and Social Media community from Twitter has launched a Web site to aggregate information feeds from social, government and traditional media concerning the swine flu.
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Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal
“In the push to digitize America’s hospitals, Midland Memorial faced an all-too-common dilemma: a crying need for information technology to replace archaic paper records, but a shortage of funds to pay for it. Midland Chief Executive Russell Meyers found an unexpected freebie of sorts: the software used to power the electronic medical-record system of the Veterans Health Administration.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“A noninvasive technology currently in development to measure blood and tissue chemistry in astronauts is expected to have benefits for monitoring patients on Earth.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Hill Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, Conn., is installing an open source electronic health record system first developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 20 years ago.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Much of the controversy surrounding Personal Health Records (PHRs) results from the fact people don’t know what they’re good for.
Applications, they’re told. But what applications?
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K. Yogesan, ICMCC Blog
The Australian National Telemedicine Summit was held from 16-17th March 2009 in Sydney. It was organised by the IIR conferences under the theme “Creating a Viable Alternative to Face-to-Face Medical Care”. About fifty attendees including decision makers, doctors, nurses and technology experts came from around the country. The meeting was chaired by the ICMCC Vice-President Prof. K. Yogesan, President of the Australasian Telehealth Society.
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“As the volume of electronic medical information increases, particularly if federal stimulus efforts to boost health information technology are successful, the issue of who owns the electronic data must be clarified, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“The Washington State Health Care Authority has launched three pilot projects to test the feasibility of health records banks.
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Howard J. Anderson, Health Data Management
“Data mining can be the foundation for meaningful changes in the practice of medicine. Inova Health System has evidence that proves this is far more than just a hypothesis. The Falls Church, Va.-based system, which owns five hospitals, is using the information pinpointed by data mining to help devise new clinical processes.
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Howard J. Anderson, Health Data Management
“When it comes to using information technology to support medication administration, there’s no tried-and-true recipe for success. Many hospital executives agree that a handful of technologies can play key roles in improving medication safety. But creating a “closed loop” process to automate all the steps from the ordering to the distribution of medications is a remarkably complex undertaking.
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John McCormick, Health Data Management
“El Camino Hospital, the pioneering Silicon Valley hospital that was one of the first in the country to implement a computerized physician order entry system, is again looking to push the edge of information technology.
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