Feds Prepare PHR Model
Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is developing a model, or template
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Kaiser subscribers can access health records in a flash
Bobby Caina Calvan, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“Electronic medical records, hailed as a bold and necessary new frontier in medicine, are taking another leap forward – even as many medical offices scramble to catch up.
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iPhone Barriers to Mobile Health
William Crawford, info.rmatics
“Just saw a bit of a rant by M.G. Siegler on TechCrunch about Apple’s review process for iPhone applications. Apple has banned a variety of applications from the iPhone Apps Store, sometimes while allowing very similar applications through. Even for applications that don’t trigger arguments over appropriateness of content, the review process itself is lengthy and unpredictable.
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HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association Reaches Out to Key Stakeholders on ‘Meaningful Use’ of Certified EHRs
PRNewswire
“The Electronic Health Records Association (EHR Association) seeks broad stakeholder consensus by sharing its perspectives on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) as well as specific recommendations for the definition of “meaningful use” of certified EHRs, which will be used to determine eligibility for the over $36B in healthcare IT stimulus incentives for physicians and hospitals.
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HIT as a Catalyst to Healthcare Improvement
Nick van Terheyden, Accelerating Adoption of Healthcare IT
“We know technology can contribute significantly to our lives. Everything from basic tools in our homes from cell phones to computer access that replaces the limited access to the Encyclopedia Britannica that we had some years back based on the sale to individual homes.
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Mobile card reader receives German certification
Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News EU
“A new upgradable card reader from SCM Microsystems has received certification from the German eHealth Program.
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Healthcare challenge: Overcoming the downside of EHR
Alan Portner, Examiner
“The potential value and cost savings of Electronic Health Records (EHR) seem so self evident it is counter-intuitive that any barrier could derail the program. American medicine has been a leader in adopting new digital technologies, but a number of roadblocks have slowed embrace of EHRs.
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The Race To Digitized Health Care
Pelpina Trip, The 33 News
“Every time you move or switch doctors, you have to transfer your medical records. Ever thought that should be made easier? Experts say it won’t be too long before your medical records will be available online.
Google and Microsoft are in a race to digitize health care. Both companies have a similar personal health record service. Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault let consumers view and maintain a digital health record with data from doctors offices, hospitals and pharmacies.”
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Meaningful Use: A Driver for PHR Growth?
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Information Exchange in support of care coordination is one of the three meaningful use criteria cited in the ARRA (Stimulus) legislation, with the other two being demonstrated use of eRx and ablity to provide quality reporting metrics.
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Thinking Beyond the EMR. Why location, tracking and sensing technologies may provide a higher, faster rate of return.
Bill Crounse, HealthBlog
“I’m in Los Angeles (Santa Monica) to speak at an event sponsored by Town Hall Los Angeles. The topic is healthcare reform.
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Time for EHRs to Become Plug-and-Play
David C. Kibbe and Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement Blog
“The remarkable report, “Initial Lessons From the First National Demonstration Project on Practice Transformation to a Patient-Centered Medical Home,”
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Massachusetts General Hospital deploys new disease surveillance system
Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Massachusetts General Hospital, New England’s largest medical facility, has deployed a new surveillance system designed to help the Massachusetts Department of Public Health reduce the risk of major outbreaks of communicable diseases.
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Touch Computing Helps Autistic Kids Speak
Xavier Lanier, GottaBeMobile.com
“Last week I went to Tweetup organized by the Technologizer team and spent the evening talking about technology. We started talking about tablets and touch computing and one of the HP employees in attendance told us about a very innovative school in Silicon Valley. Hope Technology school is using TouchSmart PCs and other to help autistic children speak for the first time. One student was unable to express himself for the first 14 years of his life, but can now string together sentences after six weeks of practice.”
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Web-Based Consultations May Reduce Referrals To Dermatologists
Medical News Today
“A Web-based system allowing general practitioners to confer with specialists regarding patients with skin conditions may reduce referrals to dermatologists by approximately 20 percent, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Two Profound Definitions: Berwick’s “Patient-Centered” and Meaningful Use
Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“The visionary Don Berwick came out May 19 with a brilliant new piece in a Health Affairs Web Exclusive, “What ‘Patient-Centered’ Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist.” It should be required reading for anybody who cares about making the future health care delivery system better than the current one.
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Group Seeks Sway Over E-Records System
Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post
“A health technology trade association has asked the Obama administration to require that any electronic health-record equipment receiving stimulus funding be certified by a group the association helped to start and run, documents show.
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Bringing Patients into the Health IT Conversation About “Meaningful Use”
David C. Kibbe and Brian Klepper, The Health Care Blog
“The Obama health team at HHS and ONC are gradually establishing the rules that will determine how approximately $34 billion in ARRA/HITECH funds are spent on health IT over the next several years.
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A private cloud for your mHealth-system
Ron Otten, Mobile WellBeing
“Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet” says Wikipedia.
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Microsoft and Google Driving for the Same Outcome with Personal Health Records – Could DPHRs Be in the Picture
Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“In my opinion, someday you might even see an interchange between the 2 personal health records as well. When you stop and think about it both companies share the internet too, part of both Microsoft and Google are what I currently use, so even as competitors software folks learned a long time ago about teamwork in essence.
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eHealth Benchmarking – Final Report
Ingo Meyer, Tobias Hüsing, Maike Didero, Werner B. Korte, Empirica
“This report presents the results of the eHealth Benchmarking study carried out by empirica on behalf of the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media.
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