Wireless health moves into design phase
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“When I first started writing about wireless applications which live in the air, under the title The World of Always On, applications mainly lived in labs.
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Will meaningful use go down CCHIT rabbit hole?
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Meaningful use, one of the vaguest terms in the HITECH Act under which doctors and hospitals must automate, is about to be defined.
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Thailand hospital electronic health care system saves money, lives
Dan Nystedt, IT World
“Electronic health-care systems have become a hot topic around the world, with governments providing stimulus programs to hurry the trend along.
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Mayo Clinic launches PHR
Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews
“The Mayo Clinic announced the launch of a new personal health record system that will be available to anyone, including those who are not Mayo patients.
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US, UK healthcare IT vendors launch The One Health Alliance
Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“A group of American and British healthcare IT vendors have banded together to package their products for overseas use.
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Budget 09: Patients slugged with e-health bill?
Karen Dearne, Australian Health IT News
“Fears that patients will have to fund and maintain their own electronic health records have strengthened with the federal Government refusing to put money into a nationwide information-sharing infrastructure in the budget.
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Killer EMR Features According to EMR Vendors
John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“I previously posted a request to hear about the “killer” EMR features that set an EMR vendor’s software apart from the other 400 EMR vendors out there.
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NSW Health Continues to Grossly Underperform in E-Health.
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“When do you imagine we can get rid of the team running NSW Health? – to say nothing of the incompetent Government they report to.
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EHR Adoption: What’s Happening? Part 1
Leslie Ann Fox and Patricia T. Sheridan, Advance
“Leslie: We recently read our country’s first formal report, a comprehensive study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, on the progress toward the EHR. The researchwas conducted by George Washington University Medical Center and the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners Health System.
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Electronic health records are wrong prescription for automation
Sameh Abdelaziz, Atlanta Journal Constitution
“The focus on health care automation to squeeze excesses and improve quality is the right goal.
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Dangerous Health IT Mismanagement, Spin Control and the World’s Longest Teething Pains
MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“I’ve written about a physician who documents the HIT travails Down Under that parallel the ones we have here – and are going to have a lot more of in a mad rush to universal health IT supposedly by 2014.
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MHealth learns you what, when, where and from who you want.
Ron Otten, Mobile WellBeing
“After months of development EthosCE was officially released on the 14th of April.
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Observations 13 May 2009: The Dutch are amazing!!!
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
A TV broadcast last night, 12 May, revealed the attitude of the Dutch doctors towards EHRs:
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EU Project Empowers Elderly to Live Independently
eHealthServer
“Researchers in the EU-funded PERSONA (Perceptive spaces promoting independent aging) project are drawing on a range of advanced technologies to empower the elderly and support them in their efforts to maintain both their independence and a good quality of life.
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PLEASE, No More Magical Thinking in HIT!
Gilles Frydman, e-patients.net
“It’s clear that in Health IT, the “3 strikes and you’re out” principle just doesn’t apply. Nonetheless these 3 examples show why, to be successful, Dr David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology, must absolutely include patients or patient representatives in addition to the many policy wonks that have been testifying for the last few months.
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Medicine’s future may include wireless, real-time vitals
Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“If live video in an ambulance can save the lives of seriously ill or injured patients, imagine how many lives could be saved with even earlier intervention–the instant there might be a problem. Wearable sensors can alert patients and caregivers alike to early signs of an impending heart attack or other life-threatening condition, before there are any more obvious symptoms.
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Canada’s First ePrescribing Program Launches in Ontario
CNW Group
“eHealth Ontario has launched Canada’s first ePrescribing Program.
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EPD-discussie kan weer beginnen
Mario Gibbels, ICTZorg
“Het is even stil geweest rondom het elektronisch patientendossier (EPD). De wet is door de Tweede Kamer, de pilots zijn geëvalueerd en iedereen die het EPD niet zit zitten heeft een bezwaarschrift kunnen indienen.
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MedApps connects to Microsoft HealthVault
Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“MedApps has inked a deal with Microsoft to connect its wireless remote monitoring HealthPAL device with Microsoft’s HealthVault personal health record.
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e-Health Has Have Been Ignored Again in the Federal Budget!
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“The 2009/10 Budget has been released and we have been conned and deprived again as best I can tell!
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