Matthew Hay Brown and Kelly Brewington, Baltimore Sun
“The computerized files are seen as the foundation of a national health information network that proponents say will improve care, advance medical knowledge and save the country tens of billions of dollars annually. But with the startup costs to individual doctors in the tens of thousands of dollars, many smaller practices have been slow to move from clipboard to computer screen.
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Declan McCullagh, CNET News
“Chuck Morton’s family suffered three disruptive data breaches when its bank, its credit union, and a credit card processor were penetrated by hackers on separate occasions. The laborious process of closing and reopening accounts took them weeks.
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Brian Robinson, Government Health IT
“Information technology vendors form alliance to help spread awareness of health IT to care providers.
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Thomas H. Lee, iHealthbeat
“Over the past several years, it’s become increasingly evident that the newspaper publishing industry is not just struggling, but struggling to survive.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“I want the computer to know who I am,” is the title of a research article in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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Michael E. Carbine, AIS's Health Business Daily
“As health plans search for ways to reach and motivate members to become more engaged in their health, they say that one lesson stands out loud and clear: In today’s world, people won’t come to you on your terms.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“It is very easy to form a view that this blog is an unalloyed and one-eyed supporter of rapid adoption of e-Health all over our Health System.
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Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“First, who knew that Blackford Middleton was either the most influential health policy wonk out there, or single-handedly responsible for the Haliburtonization of health IT? If you read the WaPo article about it, it looks as though there was some kind of terrible conspiracy to impose an evil fraud in terms of unnecessary health IT spending on the taxpayer.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“Two pieces in the health blogosphere caught my attention as being connected even though they were ostensibly about different topics. The first, by Tom Lee (the California Dr. Tom Lee, not the Boston one), appeared yesterday on the California Healthcare Foundation’s iHealthBeat site (actually not officially in the “blogosphere” because it’s a “Perspectives” piece rather than a blog post): “Is It a Matter of Time Before Physicians Are Replaced by Expert Online Medical Content?”
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Sindya N. Bhanoo, The Washington Post
“To his frustration, Steven Schwartz often encounters patients who have no idea what each of the pills they’ve been popping is called.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“The French Centre for Construction Research (CTSB) is trialing new sensor technology aimed at monitoring people’s movements when at home.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“A lot of the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) regarding Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and Personal Health Records (PHRs) seems driven by an assumption that people don’t understand the trade-offs involved in creating and accessing online records.
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Ignacio Valdes, LinuxMedNews
“This is an open letter that I plan to publish on Linux Medical News and elsewhere. As you probably know, your JAMA ‘Hold Harmless’ article presents just the tip of the iceberg. Your article and more data from the Washington Post article make it abundantly clear that proprietary vendors are intent on establishing private property rights for something that private property rights are clearly not appropriate for.
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ScienceDaily
“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 new article.
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Leslie Ann Fox and Patricia T. Sheridan, Advance
“Leslie: I’ve noticed during the past several months that there is a discussion being played out in health care trade journals regarding the difference between the electronic medical record (EMR) and the electronic health record (EHR). It’s an interesting discussion.
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Howard J. Anderson, Health Data Management
“A story in the May 16 edition of the Washington Post portrays the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society as having a major influence on the Obama Administration’s economic stimulus provisions.
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ScienceDaily
“As President Barack Obama calls for streamlining heath care by fully converting to electronic medical records and as Congress prepares to debate issues of patient privacy, one question has largely gone unasked: What do patients want?
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Bob Coli, Modern Healthcare
“Drs. Berkowitz and Polaner recognize that the gap between practicing clinicians and health information technology software developers must be eliminated in order to organize and present information to the clinician in a manner that can easily be leveraged to improve patient care and reduce costs.
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Doug Nadvornick, KUOW News
“Who owns your medical file? Hospitals and doctors’ offices are traditionally the keepers of personal medical records in the U.S. But now there’s a movement to give people more access to their own medical information.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Most of these problems come out of the HIPAA law, but more of them come out of the need for that law. The law is necessary because insurers routinely use health records to raise prices or deny coverage altogether. Employers seeking to limit their own costs share this incentive to pry.
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