Dr. Joe Kim, Medical Smartphones for Physicians
“Does your EHR (Electronic Health Record) run on your smartphone? More EHR providers are creating either a special web-based interface or an application for their platform.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
Let me start saying that I have not attended the Health 2.0 Conference in Boston.
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John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“A reader recently commented about something called openEHR. Maybe I was a little swayed by anything that says open since open source has used the term open so much. The idea of an open EHR sounded really interesting to me.
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John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“I’ve been meaning to post about the CCHIT and open source meeting at HIMSS for a while now and just haven’t ever gotten around to it. I did post my twitter thoughts on the CCHIT/Foss meeting, but I think there’s plenty more that could be said about that meeting.
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Howard Anderson, Health Data Management
“Hospitals that want to make an educated guess on how the federal government will define “meaningful use” of electronic health records under the economic stimulus package can use an existing benchmark, one expert says.
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Editorial, Boston Globe
“As the country edges toward full computerization of medical records, most of the objections have focused on potential breaches of privacy. Beth Israel Deaconess has stumbled on a different problem in its tie-in with Google Health: accuracy.
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Jay Byers, EMR Services of Canada Blog
“Like the business of the Forces themselves, this massive undertaking is not a job for the faint of heart. Yet, nine prime bidders all responded to the RFP. In the end, the nod went in February this year to Lockheed-Martin Canada to deliver a state-of-the-art EHR, dubbed the Canadian Forces Health Information System (CFHIS).
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“I have seen the future of Health 2.0, and it is Medzio. It’s flexible, it’s consumer-facing and -friendly, it integrates into the activities of daily living, it makes accessing health information easier and integrateable, and it’s fun.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“In the incestuous world of the healthcare sector, HHS is bringing together the usual suspects in HIT to discuss what exactly “meaningful use” means within the context of the ARRA HITECH Act. The meeting will take place next week, April 28 & 29, in Washington DC.
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Jane Metzger and Donna Schmid, CSC
“Quality reporting and quality management present many challenges to hospitals today, and the data requirements for quality measures are at the crux of making improvements. Having the patient-specific information required for core measures in electronic form not only benefits quality reporting, but also enables real-time quality management.
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Howard Anderson, Health Data Management
“Hospitals should consider changing their priorities when implementing electronic health records, automating documentation of physicians’ notes earlier in the game, a new report suggests.
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Victoria Colliver, Seattlepi.com
“Say you’re sick and you happen to be traveling on business in Singapore. Problem is, your medical records are trapped in a paper or electronic file back in your doctor’s office or hospital back home.
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Jay Byers, EMR Services of Canada Blog
“The 2009 Federal Budget and its focus on economic stimulus will provide some collateral support for improving the health of Canadians by accelerating implementation of electronic medical records (EMRs) across the country.
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Neil Versel, BNET Healthcare
“In a post earlier this month, I took Google and Microsoft to task for acting as if new legal provisions meant to safeguard the privacy of patient-specific health data didn’t apply to their personal health records platforms, respectively known as Google Health and HealthVault.
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Brian Klepper, The Health Care Blog
“Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and I were quickly comparing notes this morning. Our impression is that, compared to past meetings, this one seems more characterized by doers than observers.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Peter Neupert, corporate vice president for the health systems group at Microsoft, is out with an editorial questioning the wisdom of putting Heatlh IT in the stimulus.
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Mario Gibbels, ICTZorg
“De EPD-wet is prematuur en moet op tal van punten verbeterd en verhelderd worden.
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Lisa Eramo, HealthLeaders Media
“When Deb Howard, 42, of Kingwood, TX was discharged from the military in 1992, she was given eight years’ worth of her paper medical records in two tattered and worn out folders.
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Nick van Terheyden, Accelerating Adoption of Healthcare IT
“It does not come as a surprise given the complexity of medical information and the exponential growth in that data that keeping all this information correct, connected and up to date.
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Rilescat, Health Technica
“You start your connection to Mayo Clinic Health Manager via Microsoft HealthVault’s Live ID login.Â
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