Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“When Fraser Edward joined Research In Motion (the company behind BlackBerry) four years ago, the device maker had only three partners for mobile healthcare applications, Edward said during a panel session at the American Telemedicine Association in Las Vegas.
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Jolie O'Dell, ReadWriteWeb
“DataDyne’s EpiSurveyor program, funded by the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation, has been implementing mobile technology to track and contain disease in developing nations since 2007.
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Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
“Whether or not it will evolve into a true pandemic, or merely a panic, the swine flu has dominated the news for the past several days.
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Mike Cassidy, Mercury News
“Turns out most Americans are all for moving to a comprehensive system of electronic medical records. They just don’t think it’s going to save us any money when it comes to health care.
Me? I’m most Americans.
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KevinMD.com
“I wish to respond to your position on patient access to their medical records both as a patient and a nurse.
If a doctor or other health professional believes their documentation would be inappropriate or too sensitive for a patient to view, he or she shouldn’t document it.
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Hippocrates, Trusted.MD
“Anybody who followed this blog closely should not be surprised by my skepticism about Personal Health Records (PHR). A patient-managed record is a feel-good idea that unfortunately lacks the economic model to support itself.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“In a recent letter to the HITSP panel describing the interoperability needed for meaningful use, I discussed point to point interoperability and persistent document exchange. Here are a few additional details about these approaches.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“What we thought was best was to think about the things that Kaiser Permanente brings to Health Information Technology that complements Google, HelloHealth, and the entire Health 2.0 community.
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PhysOrg.com
“Dr. Joel Selanikio’s innovative technology is not only saving lives, it is changing the face of the public health system around the world. Merging his expertise in the areas of computer science, medicine and public health with his business partner’s background in technology, spurred the development of a sustainable mobile software tool to aid in disease surveillance and the collection of public health data in developing nations.
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Fiona Barr, E-Health Europe
“The UK government has rejected the idea of developing interoperable IT systems across the EU and of delivering an EU-wide electronic prescription system.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Physician practices and health systems eyeing bonuses under the stimulus package should begin now by setting up health registries with their health IT vendor, according to Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has published two definitions of “meaningful use” as it applies to certified electronic health record technologies and hospital’s use.
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Healthcare Informatics
“The Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has published its definitions of ‘meaningful use of certified EHR technologies,’ as outlined in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
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John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“Today I came across what someone called a new Health and Human Services (HHS) health information technology (HIT) website.
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Fred Pennic, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“The last of the 3 part series discussion forum on the wireless future of Health IT concludes with former House of Representatives speaker Nancy L Johnson.”
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Fred Pennic, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“Speakers Paul Meyer, Max Stachura, Thelma McClosky Armstrong, and Carolyn W. Brandon describe a wide range of cutting edge applications in telehealth, including: remote monitoring, remote care and self-management of costly chronic conditions; extending specialist care to rural and remote areas, across the U.S. and the developing world; ‘aging in place,’ reducing institutionalization and hospital admissions; making emergency response care more effective; and the billions in overall cost savings from diffusion of mobile health IT.”
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Ben, Implementing EHRs/EMRs
“One of the hottest blog topics of late 2008 / early 2009 has been the cries of smaller EHR vendors that innovation is stifled by large EHR vendors and CCHIT. I’ll agree that some aspects of CCHIT are disconcerting, particularly the focus on ratcheting up functionality requirements that are largely irrelevant to the goals of improving patient care, EHR usability, and connectivity.
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William Crawford, info.rmatics
“Last Tuesday I attended HealthCamp Boston, a really excellent 1-day “unconference” organized by the extremely energetic Mark Scrimshire.
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Stanley Feld, Repairing the Healthcare System
“Healthcare is a team sport. The patients are the most important members of the team. They are the players. Physicians are the coaches. They should be adjusting their recommendations after receiving maximum data from the patients. Patients must become the “professors of their disease”. In order to have a successful team, physicians need several assistant coaches.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“The Health 2.0 hot air balloon is beginning to leak air, drifting ever downward to earth, or at least that is what was hoped for in attending and observing the latest happenings in this market at the Health 2.0 conference last week in Boston.
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