Marcia Gulesian, The Information Technology Forum
“Back when I did software development work (secure, data-intensive, interactive Web applications — .NET and J2EE), I would finish debugging a project on my PC and then deploy the app to a test server from which it would be downloaded by every manner of user.
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Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTconsequences
“Information access and distribution are growing and the ways in which this information and knowledge democratisation occurs are many, scattered and diverse.
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EMR Daily News
“InstallFree, Inc., developer of platform application virtualization solutions for enterprise desktop environments, today announced the completion of the InstallFree Bridge rollout at Pentucket Medical Associates, a leading multi-specialty medical group practice, with over 400 medical professionals and staff serving patients in five outpatient facilities in Massachusetts.
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Chad Berndtson, ChannelWeb
“AeroScout was born in 2004, five years after it was originally founded as Bluesoft. In that time it has developed as a specialist in real-time locating systems (RTLS), products that allow users to track and monitor assets and people while leveraging existing Wi-Fi networks.
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Fred Pennic, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“On balance, it would appear that members of the open-source healthcare software community are satisfied with the proposed changes in the way electronic health records systems will be tested and certified by the federally supported Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.
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Canada Health Infoway
Someone once quipped that legacy systems are ones that actually work. Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and our jurisdictional partners are now delivering electronic health record (EHR) systems that will provide a much broader legacy than implied in the pure systems definition.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Canadians have little to show after 8 years and $1.576 billion in spending to implement electronic health records in the nation of 33.5 million, according to a new report.
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Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“We should encourage healthcare consumers to actively participate in their own healthcare. The web will be a very important factor in this process by providing access by consumers to sophisticated healthcare information.
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Dr. Joseph Kim, Medical Smartphones
“How are smartphones used by medical professionals in other countries? The U.S. is reacting to a major push by President Obama to incorporate electronic health records (EHRs) and to leverage computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems.
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Anna Wilde Mathews, The Wall Street Journal
“This year, 39% of doctors said they’d communicated with patients online, up from just 16% five years earlier, according to health-information firm Manhattan Research, a unit of Decision Resources Inc.
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De Standaard
“Eind april 2009 kregen 7.691 van de 14.218 erkende huisartsen (54,09 procent) van het Rijksinstituut voor ziekte- en invaliditeitsverzekering (RIZIV) een financiële tegemoetkoming omdat ze beschikten over een elektronisch medisch dossier.
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Computerworld Hong Kong staff, The Industry Standard
“Nearly 80 percent of private doctors in Hong Kong feel they lack IT know-how and relevant training when it comes to e-health record,
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The Telegraph
“The mechanical mandible allows experts to study the wear-and-tear on dental fittings like crowns and bridges without using costly human subjects.
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RedOrbit
“Sevocity, a division of Conceptual MindWorks, Inc. (CMI), today announced the release of a free EHR interface to Austin Radiological Association’s (ARA) radiology reports. ARA is one of the largest radiological service providers in central Texas and operates 14 outpatient radiology clinics in addition to providing radiologist services to area hospitals.
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Leo King, Computerworld UK
“Better designed IT systems would “break the central monopoly” on data by “giving individuals the ability to exercise real choice and control over schools, GPs, hospitals and other services”, it said.The report heavily criticised the £12.7 billion National Programme for IT, the largest non-military IT project in the world, which is aiming to create a digital record of all patients in the country.
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Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology said today he intends to “harmonize” certified electronic health records standards within the National Health Information Network (NHIN).
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek
“Till now, certification requirements for electronic medical records were pretty hefty, addressing hundreds of stringent criteria that comprehensive inpatient and ambulatory systems must meet in order to get a seal of approval from the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, or CCHIT, a non-profit federally supported group.
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Stephen Schimpff, mobihealthnews
“E-medicine will have a wide, growing and very important place in the delivery of health care in the years to come.
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Ryan Ricks, EHR Blog Scope
“The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) just announced a proposal that marks a dramatic change in the way they approach electronic medical record (EMR) certification.
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Octavian Purcarea, Microsoft EMEA Health Blog
“Last week, European Commission and the Ministry of Health from Germany, with the support of Microsoft, organized a two days workshop on semantic interoperability in EHRs. The initiative was triggered by the work performed by 12 countries in the project epSOS – the large scale pilot conceiving and testing a EU shared EHR and ePrescribing solution.
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