Medical News Today
“The Healthcare Manifesto lays out how EuropaBio will contribute to the process of developing patient-centred healthcare systems, detailed in four key policy principles.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The public holds mixed views when it comes to the use of electronic medical records, with most believing it’s important to adopt EMR technology and that doing so would improve the country’s healthcare system, according to a new survey conducted by National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Electronic prescribing has seen significant growth in adoption and use of critical components, according to the annual National Progress Report on E-Prescribing.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The American Medical Association is planning to offer a health information exchange solution to its 240,000 member physicians and other interested physicians.
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Randeree E. Telemedicine and e-Health. 15(3)
People going online continues to increase with new tools and services such as Facebook, Flickr, and MySpace. Such tools provide profound changes in the way we communicate and share data. Personal Health Records have emerged as a new opportunity for patients. These activities point toward Web 2.0, including the social computing phenomena, and more importantly to the Healthcare 2.0 environment. Healthcare 2.0 is a network based on Web 2.0 that empowers the user to share medical records, diaries, information, etc. This paper explores the challenges and highlights the areas of research.
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Manuel Prado-Velasco
We would like to invite you to contribute a paper for the special issue “New trends in biomedical signal processing: a crossroads between smart sensors in e-health and virtual physiological human initiatives” of The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal (TOBEJ) on your recent work with new derivations, new concepts or new implications.
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Dr. Gwenn Is In, Children's Health Blog
“Wikipedia defines health 2.0 as “the participatory healthcare characterized by the ability to rapidly share, classify and summarize individual health information with the goals of improving health care systems, experiences and outcomes via integration of patients and stakeholder.”
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“The FDA recently approved a 15-centimeter wireless sensor that aims to reduce hospitalizations by automating early detection of heart failure. The waterproof sensor is attached to the patient’s skin and transmits data to a mobile phone or similar device in the patient’s pocket.
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Peter Neupert, Neupert On Health
“I don’t normally blog about our products per se, but today marks an important milestone for Microsoft shipping solutions that are important signposts toward the future — the transformation of healthcare.
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Scott Shreeve, Crossover Health
“The original debates about Health 2.0 framed the definition as either Web 2.0 tools being adopted by health care or a much larger vision of how those enabling technologies would transform the delivery system itself.
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Aaron Apodaca, Julie Murchinson, Matthew Holt & Indu Subaiya, The Health Care Blog
“Have fuel, will accelerate! In the months leading up to the Fall Health 2.0 Conference, the Accelerator wiki membership grew from a few to over a hundred individuals and companies with increasingly diverse members, from serious technologists to product and strategy managers and company executives, representing tiny start-ups and billion dollar health care enterprises. The Health 2.0 Accelerator also facilitated its first collaborative: the Drug Profile Interoperability (”DPI”) project.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has launched a public consultation on the ethical issues related to online healthcare, telemedicine and commercial medical profiling technologies.
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Henry L. Davis, The Buffalo News
“We believe telemedicine is cost-effective for stroke, but we also need to do the research to show it. We see many more patients getting tPA, and that’s more cost-effective than caring for people who’ve suffered a stroke,” said Dr. Bart M. Demaerschalk, a Phoenix neurologist who reviewed the state of the field in a recent issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
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Obi Jo, Real Health Reform
“Many claim to have coined the term “information therapy”. The fact is that information “therapy” has been practiced by providers for decades, without their really knowing it. When each of us visits our doctors, we receive information – even if we don’t remember 90% of what we are told.
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Somos Medicina
“La Medicina 2.0 ya está entrando en los hospitales, en los quirófanos e incluso están cambiando la manera en la que percibimos estos cambios.
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John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“I’ve been hearing a bit of discussion about ICD-10 really helping to solve some of the problems of interoperability.
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e-Patient Dave, e-Patients.net
“This is a story of bad data gone wild, wrong info that spreads. It starts with a story from the 1600s, which applies all too aptly to our EMR situation today, in which there are inadequate controls on data quality, and errors that leak can be impossible to contain.
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Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“I have posted notes in the past about the topic of converging access to medical knowledge by which I mean that physicians, healthcare consumers, and patients are often acquiring medical information from the same source (see: All Media is One: Convergence and Accessibility of Medical Knowledge).
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John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“Many of struggled with the HealthVault interface. Since launching HealthVault, Microsoft has maintained that HealthVault is not a PHR, but a data store in which a consumer may load many health data types including claims data (Aetna and United Health Group), clinical data (NY Presbyterian and MedStar or anyone else that can provide a CCD or CCR file format) to medication data (CVS), lab data (Labs of America and webLab) and a consumer’s own biometric data via the Connection Center.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica
“Google and Microsoft find themselves competitors in a variety of areas, including the field of electronic medical records (EMR), where they are going up against a number of entrenched players. Because of the potential barriers for interoperability among these systems, early wins and signs of momentum may be key.
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