La Télédermatologie pourrait réduire par 20 % les visites chez le dermatologue
Denise Silber's Blog
“Titre provoquant : La télédermatologie pourrait réduire par 20 % les visites chez le dermatologue.
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A first step towards meaningful use of EHR
Brian Ahier, Healthcare IT
“CPOE will be necessary in any definition of meaningful use of EHR. But a recent survey by Leapfrog has concluded that only 7 percent of hospitals meet Leapfrog medication error prevention standards, which rely on CPOE.
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David Kibbe & Mark Leavitt : Openness vs. Opacity
Gilles Frydman, e-patients.net
“In other words, as expected, David Kibbe, one of the doctors most actively championing Participatory Medicine (although I think he doesn’t go far enough) has demonstrated once again the value of transparency, openness and conversation, while the defender of the monopolistic & paternalistic way of thinking could only respond to public questions with vitriol.
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A “Smart” Search System for Medical Questions?
Cheree Cleghorn, ThePatientReport.com
“All the studies show that one of the most common reasons for going online is to search for health information.
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CCHIT holds release of IT system testing criteria
Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has put on hold the rollout of its new sets of completed testing criteria for multiple health IT systems while it waits for HHS to release its plans for certifying IT under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also called the stimulus law.
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Sole Reliance on One EHR Certififying Body – CCHIT
John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“There’s a whole lot of discussion going on (rightfully so) right now about CCHIT EHR certification and of course the term “certified EHR.”
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Usability & Adoption of EHRs
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Policy makers keep wondering why physicians do not readily adopt EMR/EHR software. Under ONC’s first head, David Brailer, it was decided that a big problem was a lack of certification of EMR software to insure that it worked as advertised, which led to the founding of CCHIT.
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National Demonstration Project on PCMH releases new findings
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“A second round of preliminary findings from the American Academy of Family Physicians National Demonstration Project on the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) examines the use of healthcare information technology and chronic disease registries.
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Could Federal Government Efforts Be Slowing EHR Adoption?
Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat
“In 2004, former President George W. Bush announced a goal of providing most U.S. residents with electronic health records by 2014. President Obama raised the stakes when he called for all Americans to have EHRs by 2014 and said he would allocate $50 billion over five years to support the transition to digital records.
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Prediction: Smartphones to replace pagers in hospitals
Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“Popular medical blogger Dr. Kevin Pho, also known as KevinMD, has a noteworthy post on the growing popularity of smartphone use in hospitals and smartphones’ “inevitable” displacement of pagers. A recent study by Manhattan Research found that 64 percent of doctors use smartphones like BlackBerrys or iPhones. Each of those platforms support mobile applications that provide pager functionalities.
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Maryland Telemedicine Project Begins
Howard Anderson, Health Data Management
“An ambitious telemedicine project in Maryland has kicked off at one hospital. Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick is the first of six participants to go live in the Maryland eCare project.
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How telemedicine can cut referrals
Barbara Compitus, Pulse Today
“A pilot scheme in which an in-house clinic used teledermatology to send electronic images of skin conditions for consultant advice had a dramatic effect on referrals in our practice, reducing them by 62%. The pilot also offered patients a better, faster service, closer to home.
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Stimulus bill sets new HIPAA rules, but will it make a difference?
Anne Zieger, FierceHealthIT
“As we report in today’s issue, the HITECH section of the stimulus bill adds some new provisions to HIPAA and toughens others.
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The first Maryland eCare Hospital goes “live”
HealthTech Wire
“Maryland intensive care patients will now be connected by voice, video and data lines to specialized physicians and nurses at a tertiary care referral center 130 miles away.
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Push For Electronic Medical Records Must Slow Down, For Security’s Sake
Robert Vamosi, PC World
“Among the many new provisions the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), is federal funding for electronic medical records. Known as HITECH, the law gives incentives to healthcare organizations to digitize personal health information before 2020. Lost in the rush, however, are the details.
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Not Feeling Well? Can’t Leave the Office? The Doctor Will See You Now
PRNewswire
“Medicine At Work, the first company to enable physician services to the workplace using advanced video telemedicine technology, has secured full-time physician staffing for its clients. All services are provided by emergency medicine and internal medicine physicians who are board-certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine or the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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Alabama Voices: Medicine goes high tech
Carol H. Steckel, Montgomery Adviser
“In decades past, physicians only needed a handful of items in their black bags: A stethoscope, thermometer, blood pressure cuff, reflex hammer, otoscope, prescription pad and a handful of supplies were all that was required.
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Leavitt talks CCHIT, stimulus and new administration
Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
“These days, Mark Leavitt is like most people involved on a national level with promoting healthcare information technology—doing what he can while waiting for HHS to do what it’s going to do.
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A Different Type of PHR
Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“Some provider organizations see personal health records as a way to extend their electronic health records system by importing some EHR data into the PHR.
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Telemedizin: Fontane für Herz-Kreislauf-Patienten auf dem Land
Heise Online
“Am 1. Juli startet in Nordbrandenburg das Medizin-Modellprojekt “Fontane”, in dessen Rahmen vier Jahre lang der Einsatz von Telemedizin bei der ambulanten Betreuung von Herz-Kreislauf-Patienten in strukturschwachen ländlichen Regionen getestet wird.
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