Heather Curry, EurekAlert News
“CT colonography, which is a highly effective colorectal screening test, is feasible in rural health centers with the help of teleradiology, according to a study performed at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.
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HealthTech Wire
“Experience shows that e-services free up 30-50 percent of the time healthcare professionals spend on booking appointments with patients.
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Jack Beaudoin, Healthcare IT News
“Holding their first joint conference, partisans of Health 2.0 and Ix (Information Therapy) agreed that the U.S. health delivery system needs reform and that technology can provide the means to do so – but disagreed on the prescription for change.
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Peter Neupert, Forbes
“We’re all wondering how the billions of dollars that the Obama administration and Congress have committed will affect our nation and each of us as citizens. No area has more potential than health care, which represents a large portion of the economy and touches each of us so personally.
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PhysOrg.com
“Vivian Mushahwar, a University of Alberta cell biologist and Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research senior scholar, and her team have designed “smart” underwear in an effort to prevent pressure ulcers from developing on bed-ridden people or those in wheelchairs.
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Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog
“I mentioned Wednesday morning that Microsoft and the Mayo Clinic launched their trial with HealthVault. “Left unanswered so far is whether Mayo convinced Microsoft to sign a HIPAA business associate agreement,” is what I wrote.
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Chad Terhune, Keith Epstein and Catherine Arnst, BusinessWeek
“Neal Patterson likens the current scramble in health information technology to the 19th century land rush that opened his native Oklahoma to homesteaders. Cerner (CERN), the large medical vendor Patterson heads, is jockeying for new business spurred by a $19.6 billion federal initiative to computerize a health system buried in paper.
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NU.nl
“Revalidatieartsen kunnen in hun computer het dossier van hun patiënten gaan raadplegen.
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William Crawford, info.rmatics
“Doc Searls invented the Internet. Ok, not really – but he was one of the co-authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto, which did as good a job as anybody, and better than most, at predicting the degree to which the Internet would facilitate conversations, rather than just transactions, companies and their customers.
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Surescript
“Significant growth was seen in the use of three critical steps in the e-prescribing process between 2006 and 2008: prescription benefit, prescription history and prescription routing.
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Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare
“Electronic drug prescribing is growing rapidly, at long last—but it still represents only a small percentage of prescribers and the number of prescriptions being written. According to the latest figures released by Surescripts, the company that provides the connectivity between physician practices and pharmacies, the number of actively e-prescribing physicians and midlevel practitioners grew from 36,000 at the end of 2007 to 74,000 in December 2008.
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Joseph Shapiro, NPR
“There’s a big disconnect between American opinions about fixing the health care system and the view of experts and politicians, according to a new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.
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The Doc Searls Weblog
“I’m listening right now to On Point*, where the topic is Pushing E-Health Records. The only case against electronic health records (EHR, aka electronic medical recordsk, or EMR) is risk of compromised privacy. Exposure goes up.
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Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
“Microsoft’s HealthVault technology will be used as the foundation for Mayo Clinic Health Manager, a personal health record service that the Mayo Clinic will use to allow patients to monitor their conditions and share information with their caregivers.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Kaiser Permanente is preparing to expand an IT pilot, while other IT initiatives are being piloted in limited production or tested at its R&D facility.
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“The Health 2.0 Accelerator pre-Health 2.0 conference meeting kicked off this morning here in Boston with a presentation by the AHRQ’s Special Expert in the Healthcare IT Group, Matthew Quinn. The AHRQ is the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is a part of the Health and Human Services (HHS) department.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“In my recent posts about the Limitations of Administrative Data and the Lessons Learned, I’ve concluded that clinical observations of symptoms and conditions coded in SNOMED-CT are the most relevant problem list data to share with patients and use for data analysis.
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Noah Robischon, Fast Company
“Social media is going to change the health-care industry just as radically as it changed entertainment, finance, and publishing. I know this to be true not because of any insider info or the research backing Chuck Salter’s Doctor of the Future story in this month’s issue.
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Chuck Salter, Fast Company
“But some physicians and surgeons have been quietly rethinking and reinventing medicine for the 21st century. Often collaborating with innovative companies, these pioneers are experimenting with cutting-edge technologies, from software to robots, that have the power to revolutionize the medical landscape — producing better outcomes, lower costs, broader access, and greater convenience.
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Chuck Salter, Fast Company
“As we explored this month in “The Doctor of the Future,” the doctor-patient relationship isn’t what it used to be. Take primary-care physicians. Because insurance companies pay them considerably less than specialists, they rely on volume.
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