Articles
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“Mayo Clinic and Microsoft are today launching a combined product called the Mayo Clinic Health Manager (and they’ll be showing it Thursday 23rd at the Health 2.0 Meets Ix conference). What this product does is essentially combine the care guidelines and rules that Mayo has developed over the years with an individual’s data in their HealthVault account to trigger recommendations about care.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data Liquidity, HealthVault, Information Management, phr
Sarah Rubenstein, WSJ Health Blog
“Even a booster of electronic systems like David Blumenthal, who just started his Washington post as the national coordinator of health IT, points to a myriad of challenges when it comes to digitizing the nation’s medical records.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA
Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“Mit dem angelaufenen Rollout der Lesegeräte in der Region Nordrhein sollte die elektronische Gesundheitskarte eigentlich kein “großes” Thema auf der ConHIT sein. Doch schon die Nachricht, dass die Anmeldefrist der Ärzte zum Kassieren der Gerätepauschale in der Rollout-Region bis Ende Oktober verlängert wurde, kann als Indikator für eine bedenkliche Stimmung gelten. Dann ist Bundestagswahl.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Germany | EHR: EHR, EHR Germany | Tags: Smart Card
Joe Moock, Cataract Outsourcing
“The healthcare industry is facing a critical time; physicians and staff, already inundated with patient needs, are being asked to perform more tasks in a broader spectrum of medical categories. While it’s important to be knowledgeable in a variety of medical specialties, with emerging and evolving technology, it is impossible to be a jack-of-all-trades. Outpatient care facilities must find alternative measures to ensure the highest level of patient quality care is maintained in both patient diagnosis and treatment.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: PACS, Quality, Remote, Rural, Telemedicine, Teleradiology
MSNBC
“The Mayo Clinic has combined its medical expertise with Microsoft Corp.’s technology in a free Web site launching Tuesday that will let people store personal health and medical information.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: HealthVault, Information Management, phr
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The Mayo Clinic, in partnership with Microsoft, has launched a free online application to help patients better manage their medical information.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: HealthVault, Information Management, Patient
Jacob Goldstein, The Wall Street Journal
“The physician in charge of the federal government’s massive push to move health care to electronic records from paper files faces “huge challenges” as he starts his new job in Washington this week.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Alert/Reminder, Certification, Health Information
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“Myca/Hello Health is launching it’s new platform in a special Deep Dive at Health 2.0 Meets Ix, Weds 22nd at 12 noon. Sean Khozin will also be demoing it as part of the “Building Health 2.0 into the Delivery System” panel.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Country: United States | Tags: GP, Health 2.0, Platform, Social Media
Salvatore Volpe, EHR PHR and Patient Portals = Patient Centered Medical Home
“Another state sees the advantage of facilitating information exchange.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Legal
Aliya Sternstein, NextGov
“Debate is growing over public access to anticipated data comparing the results of health care treatments subsidized by Medicare and Medicaid.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Claims Data, Transparency, vendors
Gilles Frydman, e-patients.net
“Neither health professionals nor patients can do it alone.
Let’s make no mistake: We are here to participate and to help!
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Google-Health, Interoperability, participatory, Standards
“Ontologies, Semantic Interoperability and Electronic Health Records – Standards for Patient Empowerment”
Chaired by Prof. Dr. Bernd Blobel, this session will take place on 10 September.
This ICMCC session has been supported by the Working Group “Electronic Health Records” of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and the Working Group “Standards for Interoperability and EHR” of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS).
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: 2009, Conferences, ICMCC News, News, RA News, Record Access | EHR: EHR | Tags: Access, Empowerment, HL7, Interoperability, Narrative, Ontology, Patient, Semantic
MedGadget
“IBM has teamed up with a company called Nhumi Technologies, out of Zurich, Switzerland, a developer of EMR visualization software, to create a hospital record system that can help clinicians see more relevant patient data in a more efficient manner.
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Switzerland, United States | Tags: emr, Health Information
KevinMD.com
“The perfect storm is coming.
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Coding
John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“I recently got an email from an EHR vendor talking about how they just had a practice uninstall a CCHIT certified EHR and replace it with this EHR vendor’s EHR which was not CCHIT certified.
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CCHIT, Certification, vendors
Fred Trotter
“Recently someone turned me on to a post by data expert Joe Bugajski entitled the Data Model that Nearly Killed Me.
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA
Nick van Terheyden, Accelerating Adoption of Healthcare IT
“For the Record magazine did an excellent front page cover story on the Health Story project “Telling the Full Story”.
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Coding, Health Information Technology, Narrative, transcription
Emily Beaver, Health Leaders Media
“Few nursing homes are using electronic health records that allow them to share information with other healthcare providers—a standard known in the technology world as “interoperability.”
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Certification, Elderly, Health Information Technology, Interoperability, Nursing Home
Ed Sperling, Forbes
“Walk into any doctor’s office or hospital around the country and the first thing that you’ll be greeted with is a request for information, no matter how many times you’ve filled out these documents before.
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Alert/Reminder, Benefits, Medical History, Medication, Monitoring, Sensors
PRNewswire
“The first implementations were made at West Hawaii Community Health Center in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, Flint Hills Community Health Center in Emporia, Kansas and Wayne Community Health Center in Bicknell, Utah. These community health centers use Sage Intergy CHC for all practice management needs, including familiar tasks such as appointment setting and billing.
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Community
