Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“The official Google Blog is featuring a post from Google Health product manager Roni Zeiger, claiming it passed the test of a patient who found his hospital delivering him billing codes instead of clinical data.
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Tammy Worth, Los Angeles Times
“Primary care physician Matt Handley believes that information technology enables him to provide better patient care. + So much so that he recently spent an afternoon hooking up a computer and DSL line at the home of a patient so she can contact him more frequently.
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Steven Lewis, Longwoods Essays
“Throw away the crystal ball and spend an hour with Google Health: the future will be right in front of you. Providers who prefer the pedestal to parity and see themselves as traffic cops on the health information highway are in for the shock of their lives.
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Rilescat, Health Technica
“Yes, I know…HIMSS was over a couple of weeks ago. I have been busy. If you have been following me on twitter ( @rilescat ), you know how busy I have been.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“I am back from the spring Health 2.0 Conference in Boston, MA, this time combined with Information Therapy
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Michael Millenson, The Health Care Blog
“I was staring at the program cover for the special joint conference between Health 2.0 and the Center for Information Therapy going on here in Boston when a sudden realization jumped out at me:
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Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“So the party’s over, the buntings are down, the #health2con tweets—more than 3,000 of them—are drying up but recorded here, and the Health 2.0 & Ix teams have returned to their respective coasts. Even though this is the smaller of the two annual Health 2.0 Conferences, because we were co-hosting this one with Ix, it was not a small event.
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Roni Zeiger, The Official Google Blog
“At Google, we believe that consumers should have convenient and secure access to all their health data so that they can be better informed and be more involved in their care. Recently, a data-savvy patient known as e-Patient Dave blogged about data that was imported into his Google Health Account from his hospital in Boston, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Technology of varying types is making it possible to track new cases of swine flu in close to real time.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) has introduced legislation aimed at facilitating nationwide adoption of electronic health records, particularly among small, rural providers.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Many people ask about the purpose of Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Personal Health Record (PHR) technology. What’s in it for me?
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Garg AX et al, JAMA, 293(10)
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Developers of health care software have attributed improvements in patient care to these applications. As with any health care intervention, such claims require confirmation in clinical trials.
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Fred Pennic, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“At the recent White House Forum on Health Care, President Obama and Congressional leaders promised a focus on controlling spiraling health care costs. There is perhaps no more effective means to simultaneously contain costs and improve health outcomes than a rapid diffusion of Information Technology.
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Manhattan Research
“Physicians and Emerging Information Technologies, is a syndicated multi-client physician research study and advisory service focused on understanding technology adoption and integration trends among U.S. practicing physicians.
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Denise Silber, Silber's Blog
“Une enquête de la société Manhattan Research chez les médecins européens de 5 grands pays, et rapportée par Biovalley présente plusieurs observations intéressantes.
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
While I would have used the title “The Dubious Promise of Digital Medicine When Led By Amateurs in the Health IT Industry”
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Alan Brookstone, CanadianEMR
“Ib Johansen, Deputy Director for MedCom, the Danish Centre for Health Telematics is my guest on this podcast. He describes the Denmark EMR strategy regarding the uptake, adoption and sustainment of the program. Denmark stands out as a world leader in the area of EMR adoption and use and has taken a very practical and pragmatic approach to their national program.
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ScienceDaily
“European healthcare is threatened by soaring costs and limited resources. Market tests demonstrating that telemedical services can cut costs and improve treatment are now being implemented across the continent.
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Business Wire
“Medsphere Systems Corporation applauds West Virginia Senator John D. Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Healthcare, for introducing the Health Information Technology Public Utility Act of 2009.
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The Financial Express (India)
“The advances in digital medicine have already started to move patients from the margins of the medical system to its centre. Some think there are bigger things to come. “The key is patient-driven research,” explains Gregory Simon, head of Faster Cures, an advocacy group in Washington, DC.
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