Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times
“The instant he hung up a few minutes later, a digitized recording raced through fiber-optic cables on the Pacific Ocean seabed and into a computer server on the 17th floor of a Manila office tower, where medical school graduate Dinah Barrete was working the graveyard shift.
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Steve Nowottny, Pulse
“Public confidence in GPs’ ability to safeguard confidential patient data has dropped significantly over the past year, according to experts.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“French robotics specialist Robosoft and SRI International have demonstrated a new service robot designed to assist the elderly at home.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is developing an e-prescribing prototype that will facilitate prescription routing for the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY).
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Joseph Conn, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“The Federal Trade Commission, which heretofore has had a minimal role in enforcing privacy and security laws affecting electronic health records, took a big first step Thursday toward its new role as a front line, federal healthcare IT enforcer.
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e-Patient Dave, e-Patients.net
“This post will complete (I hope!) the list of errors that I discovered in the billing data that forms part of my medical records. The original post is here.
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KevinMD.com
“Personal health records have been in the news lately, with the focus on how inaccurate they can be.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“The 6th Annual World Health Care Congress is the most prestigious meeting of chief and senior executives from all sectors of health care.
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The Economist
Today the Economist publishes a special issue on health care and technology “Medicine goes Digital”. The content has also been published on their website, and following are links to and excerpt from all articles.
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Walecia Konrad, The New York Times
“THE Obama administration’s plan to spend $19 billion on electronic medical records has generated so much buzz you might think it was the biggest thing in health care since penicillin.
“We’ve got a long way to go” before digital health files are widespread, said Dr. Ashish Jha, an associate professor at Harvard who has been involved in several studies on such records.
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Healthcare & Security Solutions
“The federal government declared in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 its intent to fund significant investments necessary to built an interconnected health information exchange (HIE) in the U.S., with the goal of quality improvement and cost containment. In recent years there have been many attempts to built regional HIE, often called RHIOs, but most of these RHIOs failed after they exhausted their initial government funding.
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“I’ve heard it for years (since at least the mid 1990’s), and I for one, am tired of hearing it.
Who are IT personnel of any stripe to be telling physicians what to do? What, exactly, are their qualifications to render such judgments? (When physicians and other clinicians hear this type of “advice” they should ask this question. Loudly.)
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“The highlight of my trip to Chicago and HIMSS’09 had nothing to do with what occurred within the halls of the McCormick Center, but in the offices of a small company based out of Chicago, HealthString, where I had the opportunity to meet and go to dinner with one of its co-founders and CEO, George Willock.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“I wrote dismissively of the work of Dr. Clayton Christensen in February.
His new book, The Innovator’s Prescription, dismissed the medical home concept in just a few sentences, noting it doesn’t match well with current business models.
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat
“Open source proponents say their egalitarian form of health IT may be coming of age at the right time — just as the U.S. health care system, spurred on by billions of stimulating federal dollars, gets serious about joining the digital age.
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e-Patient Dave, e-Patients.net
EVERYONE, LISTEN UP: I DID NOT JUST SAY HEALTHVAULT IS BETTER! I haven’t even tried it yet. There are many personal health record systems out there, and I have no intention of doing a comparative review of them all, much less declaring a winner.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“I started the week with a blog about the Limitations of Administrative Data, so it’s fitting to end the week with lessons learned and next steps.
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Shahid N. Shah, the Healthcare IT Guy
“As a thought leader in the healthcare IT space I get a lot of emails that blame physicians for not changing their behavior and not more more easily accepting information technology.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“The introduction of electronic health cards in Germany has been stalled because doctors are refusing to buy the necessary equipment to read them.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News EU
“A new international study conducted by Quocirca industry analysts shows that many healthcare organizations across Europe and the U.S. are applying mobile technology to inappropriate care situations.
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