Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“Ivor Kovic, MD posted a very interesting slideshow about how Mayo Clinic utilizes web 2.0. In my Medicine 2.0 university course, I used Mayo Clinic as an example for how a medical institute/clinic should be represented online properly.”
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Nick van Terheyden, Accelerating Adoption of Healthcare IT
“There has been much activity relating to the term meaningful use cited in the health care reform proposals form the government
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iHealthBeat
“A new nationwide initiative will allow researchers to mine data from electronic health records at the Department of Veterans Affairs to study treatment efficacy, the Salt Lake City Deseret News reports.
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Medical News Today
“Many countries worldwide are digitizing patients’ medical records. In the US, for example, the recent economic stimulus package signed into law by President Obama includes $US17 billion in incentives for health providers to switch to electronic health records (EHRs) and $US2 billion for the development of EHR standards and best-practice guidelines.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“But how participatory are we really? The answer you often hear is that we are patient centric.
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PRNewswire
“Allscripts today announced the formation of a coalition of technology innovation leaders who are partnering to educate 500,000 U.S. physicians about opportunities aligned with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“In several blog entries, I’ve been discussing the adoption of SNOMED-CT as the vocabulary to support BIDMC problem lists and our Google Health interface.
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Ron Otten, Mobile WellBeing
“As medical knowledge advances, healthcare is becoming more complex. Faced with growing volumes of information and new technologies, clinicians are working in ever-more specialised silos.
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Peter Kruger, Wireless Healthcare
“SIMpill by name and simple by nature, most people who are tracking the use mobile phone technology in healthcare will be aware of this SMS based medication compliance monitoring device.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“I participated in a personal health record (PHR) workshop yesterday hosted by the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT).
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Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
“Google is attempting to refine its health-related search by asking users if they’re experiencing the symptoms or conditions they’re Googling about.
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Towers Perrin Consult
“Jay H. Sanders, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of The Global Telemedicine Group, describes how telemedicine and new technologies will become a reality.
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Claire Thwaites, ZDNet Tech for Change
“With limited knowledge of the country aside from TV images from the horrific 1994 genocide, I was immediately struck by Rwanda’s incredible atmosphere of progress and the resilience of its people.
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“Wireless biometric sensors, connected health devices, mobile phones and online portals hold the promise of automating the management of chronic diseases.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Provider PHRs currently have the largest number of actual users, with Chilmark Research estimating that nearly 70% of all PHR use occurs on a provider-sponsored PHR.
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“A consulting firm specializing in assessing health care clinical and financial outcomes has introduced a Web-based wound care consultation service.
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Lynn Welch, WTN News
“In the future, it’s possible that medicine will become less one-size-fits most, and more personalized, based on proof of what works best for you.
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Peter Buxbaum, Government Health IT
“The Defense Health Information Management System is in the process of deploying AHLTA Dental, a module included with the new AHLTA 3.3 release.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“As camera phones have become widespread, many emergency medical technicians have taken to snapping photos of wounds and forwarding the images to hospitals so clinical teams could be ready when the ambulance arrives.
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Peter Buxbaum, Government Health IT
“The Defense Health Information Management System (DHIMS) is gearing up for a test of its Medical Situational Awareness in the Theater (MSAT) portal, which supports decision-making at military medical units by allowing users to view potential health threats to troops graphically.
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