Meer dan eenderde Nederlanders wil geen EPD
Hein Bosman, ICTZorg
“Van de Nederlanders is 37% tegen het EPD.
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Articles
The Last Chance Saloon for E-Health in Australia
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“Well the budget has been delivered, the press has discussed and as far as e-Health is concerned it has been a pretty miserable outcome.
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Meaningful Use: The Elephant IS In The Room
Gilles Frydman, e-patients.net
“Comparative Effectiveness: a comparison of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for a particular set of patients.
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Microsoft, Google in healthy competition
Ina Fried, CNet News
“Microsoft and Google, the Hatfields and McCoys of the high-tech industry, have carried their scrap into the race to digitize health care.
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Electronic Patient-centered Approach To Capturing Data From Cancer Patients Improves Care And Research
ScienceDaily
“Wireless, personal computers used by cancer patients to log their symptoms help improve the patients’ care and further cancer research
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Alaska’s medical centers go online to diagnose strokes
TMCNet
“The remote evaluation of acute ischemic, or REACH, stroke diagnosis and evaluation system, introduced in early May by Providence Alaska Medical Center
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Guaranteed EMR Benefits – Accessibility of Charts
John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“I previously posted about the Guaranteed EMR benefit of legible charts. I told you this would be a series on the benefits of EMR and so here’s a link that will constantly update with the benefits of an EMR.
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The EHR “F” Word That Nobody Wants To Talk About
Peter Beck, The EMR/EHR Show
“But it’s an occupational hazard that you must be aware of in order to guard against: stating in your documentation that you did much more than you actually did, or reasonably could have.
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Successes with EHRs
Wes Rishel, Gartner
“Negative articles continue to appear implying that incentives in the Stimulus to roll out EHR will lead to a disastrous failure.
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The Machinery Behind Healthcare Reform: How the HIT Lobby is Pushing Experimental and Unsafe Technology on Unconsented Patients and Clinicians
MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“In many past posts on Healthcare Renewal I have commented on a bewildering healthcare and IT industry blindness to a growing body of literature and experiences of those “in the trenches” that throw doubts upon Utopian views of health IT as a panacea for healthcare’s problems.
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The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post
“When President Obama won approval for his $787 billion stimulus package in February, large sections of the 407-page bill focused on a push for new technology that would not stimulate the economy for years.
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Mental illness and behavorial health challanges, electronic medical records
Rod Hise, WTN News
“The complexities of mental illness and behavioral health and there stigmas present unique challenges to the use of electronic medical records (EMR) by psychiatrists, says a national expert on the subject at the recent Digital Healthcare Conference in Madison.
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Canada’s First ePrescribing Program Launches in Ontario
eHealthServer
“ePrescribing is the process of generating, authorizing and transmitting prescriptions from doctors and other prescribers to pharmacists and other dispensers.
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Nuevas Frecuencias de Radio para Telemedicina
A.G.V., Somos Medicina
“La Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones de los EE.UU. ha ampliado el espectro de la banda de ondas de radio que las herramientas médicas pueden utilizar.
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Should Health Care Standards be Open Source?
Alan Viars, The Health Care Blog
“Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am huge fan of Linux and open source. This is perhaps why I get so frustrated with the US health care industry and its general lack of interoperability. I could use many standards as an example, however, for this discussion I’m using the ASTM Continuity of Care Record (CCR) as an example.
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EMRs: “Would you take it if it were FREE?”
e-Patient Dave, e-Patients.net
“Blogger John at the “EMR (EHR) and HIPAA” blog posted a musing that caused my business antennas to twitch. A vigorous discussion has started in the comments.
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Study finds virtual doctors visits satisfactory for both patients and clinicians
PhysOrg.com
“Travelers book plane tickets online, bank customers can check their accounts at any computer, and busy families can grocery shop online. Someday, even doctor visits could be among the conveniences offered via the Internet.
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Personal Health Records Put Consumers in Control
Creston News Advertiser
“Barb Kerecz is a busy woman. The Connecticut-based working mother of five has a lot of organizing and record keeping to do to keep household chaos under control.
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Analysis: Can Sam’s Club bring health care tech to the local doctor?
Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“In two years, the federal government will begin divvying up $19 billion in reimbursement money to help health care organizations and doctors cover roll out electronic medical records (EMR) technology.
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Bloggers Impact On EMR Adoption
John, EMR (EHR) and HIPAA
“As I’ve been writing and reading about ARRA and the HITECH Act, I’ve had a few moments to consider the impact that things like the HIT Policy Committee will have on the future of EMR adoption in the US.
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