Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Newly developed non-invasive sensors, coupled with body area networks via smart phones or gateway receivers to transmit data over the internet, have the potential to transform medicine according to Eric Topol M.D.
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Fred Pennic, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“The Obama administration’s implementation of stimulus package incentives intended to spur nationwide adoption of electronic medical records will give special attention to solo practitioners and small group practices, HHS Health IT Coordinator David Blumenthal told lawmakers Wednesday.
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PRWeb
“California eHealth Collaborative announced today that five community-based health information exchange (HIE) projects in California successfully tested the exchange of clinical health information to improve patient care.
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Cheree Cleghorn, The Patient Report
“This article may not look as if it is reporting on a revolutionary development—-but it may well be.
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Sarah Greene, e-patients.net
“The newly drafted Declaration of Health Data Rights, created by patient advocates, caregivers, health care professionals, technology and policy experts, and entrepreneurs (in some cases, all attributes in the same person), states that its assertions are self-evident, basic, essential.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“In the FWIW column, Chilmark Research submitted its comments on the Draft Recommendations for Meaningful Use, whic were released on June 16th. Today at 5pm was the deadline and we barely made it (email time-stamp of 4:59pm). Following is the text of the email/comments we submitted to HHS and we certainly welcome your feedback, e.g. we are totally nuts, reasonable or wimped out and did not push hard enough?
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Alan Brookstone, CanadianEMR
“New Zealand (as with Denmark) is an example of a country that has achieved an extremely high level of EMR adoption by GPs and a level of adoption by specialists that is not far from 100%. How did they do it?
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Bradley Kreit, Health Horizons
“23andMe’s “research revolution” involves, as they wrote, getting people to contribute their genomic and other data to research projects, and using the aggregated data to drive new research and innovation, which will likely be the next frontier in privacy and data ownership debates.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Premier healthcare alliance, made up of more than 2,100 U.S. hospitals and more than 58,999 other healthcare sites, told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Friday that standards are vital for achieving the full potential of electronic health records.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Fifty-six organizations have shown support for the Markle Connecting for Health Collaborative’s Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information – a set of practices to improve consumer access to personal health information and protect privacy.
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
“Last week, a work group of the federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee uncorked its first draft of proposed “meaningful use” standards under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Whitney Hoffman, Reading Whitney
“I read a blog post by Andy Kessler today, who has written a book called The End of Medicine, which I have admittedly not read as of yet. The post alleges that the medical industry has created a complete boondoggle of finances, and if we were to employ electronic medical records and their efficiencies, physicians would suffer and therefore, the emphasis and resistance to EMR is merely doctors protecting their own.
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Center for Democracy & Technology
“This paper advocates for stronger standards for de-identification of health data. Patient data sets have a
broad variety of useful applications but must be stringently de-identified in order to maintain patient privacy and overall trust in the health care system. However, technological innovations make it increasingly difficult to protect de-identified data against re-identification.
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Dissent, Personal Health Information Privacy
“The Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology today released a major paper advocating the need for stronger standards for “de-identified” personal health information when used for medical research, to promote public health, or other specialized purposes.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“With that in mind, the thinking of the HIT Policy Committee is inclusive of a policy priority they call “Engage patients and families,” with a fairly reasonable (based on what I know the technology can do) set of objectives and measures for 2011-2015.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“Today’s the final day for providing feedback on meaningful use to ONC.
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Gregory Park, The Health Care Blog
“I have been a strong proponent of the creation of a National Health Record (NHR), but will it increase the quality of care for each citizen?
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“As I wrote last week, HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (HIT) and the HIT Policy Committee advising it have made substantial progress in defining “meaningful use” (MU) of HIT.
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Rick Weinhaus, The Health Care Blog
“The EHR TimeBar functions as a high-level overview of the patient record, as a query device, and as an intuitive navigation tool. Each EHR file (event) for the patient is represented by an icon.
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eHealthServer
“Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that the Centre Hospitalier du Mans in France has selected Agfa HealthCare’s leading Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS) ORBIS(TM) to support the implementation of a full Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solution.
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