Brigid Huey, EurekAlert!
“Type 1 diabetes is the most common chronic childhood disease. The management of this serious medical condition includes regular fingerstick glucose measurements, multiple daily injections of insulin, and frequent insulin dose adjustments.
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John Rondy, WTN News
“As a member of the Health Information Technology (HIT) policy committee, Charles Kennedy is in an influential position to help shape the future course of an American health care system that is out of control and seriously in need of a fix.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“A new study identifies the top five challenges senior IT executives face when implementing wireless applications and devices in the healthcare setting.
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Guenther Krumpak, nowEurope
“Below, Miklos Barta posted that interesting comment on telemedicine in the US vs. Europe
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John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“In a recent comment, Steven suggested that an EMR and HIT in general might be necessary because the volume of medical knowledge is so large and complex that it’s too complex for the human mind.
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Charles Cooper, CNET News
“The big trade associations representing the medical establishment, such as the American Medical Association and the Medical Group Management Association, can’t estimate how many of their members use the microblogging service, or for that matter, how many of them deploy consumer-facing technologies in their daily interactions with patients.
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HIMMS
“According to the HIMSS AnalyticsTM Database, approximately one-third of U.S. hospitals use wireless technology within their healthcare delivery organization. In order to understand the issues, challenges and concerns surrounding the deployment and utilization of wireless networks, HIMSS Analytics conducted two focus groups in March 2009 with senior IT executives who have implemented wireless networks.
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China Business News
“The Ministry of Health (MoH) will start establishing a nationwide electronic health record system this year as part of the health care reform in a bid to standardize health records for all Chinese residents, the MoH announced on May 19.”
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PR.com
“Researchers implemented an enhancement in the electronic health record to improve rates of smoking cessation.
Although the dangers of smoking are well known, tobacco still remains the number one cause of preventable death in the United States.
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CNET News
“There’s a pretty sizable group of consumers who are going online and using Web 2.0 tools to not quite manage their own health but at least to communicate with others,” according to Matthew Holt, co-founder of the Health 2.0 event and author of The Health Care Blog.
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Bruce V. Bigelow, Xconomy San Diego
“As a scientific advisor to CardioNet (before the San Diego startup went public last year and moved to Pennsylvania), Eric Topol was in a position to see the coming wave of next-generation wireless technologies in healthcare.
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PR Leap
“To assess the productivity of its EHR, LSS Data Systems’ (http://www.lssdata.com) customer Citizens Memorial Healthcare (Bolivar, MO) gathered data during its implementation of the Medical and Practice Management (MPM) Suite, and what they uncovered was astounding.
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eHealth Europe
“The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia has announced that it will roll-out a new electronic health insurance card system across the country.
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“Diabetes Mine just announced the winner of its 2009 Diabetes Design competition: the LifeCase and LifeApp solution for the iPhone. Two students designed the iPhone case and accompanying application that takes connected diabetes management beyond “a single logging, data calculation or learning application,” which Diabetes Mine said characterized most other iPhone-based entries. Diabetes Mine said this service represents a “glimpse of the future” since its takes “the integration of diabetes devices to its fullest conclusion.” iPhones outfitted with this case and app enables the device to function as a glucose meter, controller for your pump and data logging application all in one. It also has the built-in capability to share the data across various platforms. Finally, the case includes a lancet and testing strip storage.”
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Evan Steele, Straight Talk
“This weekend, The Washington Post published an investigative report entitled “The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform: How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records.”
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John Halamka, Healthcare IT News
“Yesterday, ONC released its implementation and operating plan in fulfillment of the 90-day deadline established by Div. A, Title XIII of ARRA.
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Sky News Online
“Australian scientists are developing a wristwatch which can monitor a person with Parkinson’s disease to determine if a review of their medication is needed.
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Colin T. Son, Medscape Today
“The Obama administration is so eager to promote electronic medical records (EMRs; or electronic health records [EHRs]) that it has designated $19 billion of stimulus money to create incentives.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“By some estimates, mobile phones are in the hands of more than half the world’s population, including hundreds of millions of people who never had access to land lines.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“A new study suggests that patients are open to having electronic medical records play a more central role in their care.
A research team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston led the study to determine how patients feel about converting to EMRs.
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