Sarah Bruce, E-Health Europe
“Researchers from Intel and GE Healthcare are working to develop a ‘Health House’ that will track a person’s everyday habits, check vital signs and predict whether they are at risk of a fall.
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Eva Marie Stahl, Oh My Gov
“The Commonwealth Fund published a series of case studies this week that reviewed the ‘best practices’ of several health communities and their efforts to integrate care, reduce cost and improve outcomes.
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CCHIT Staff, PHR Decisions
“Putting personal health information in the hands of consumers raises issues of how they get it, how and where it originated, and what they can do with it. These are among the issues raised in a recent web-based initiative seeking wide endorsement of a Declaration of Health Data Rights.
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iHealthBeat
“On Wednesday, National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal said the federal government would pay special attention to individual physicians and small group practices as it works to implement the health IT provisions of the federal economic stimulus package, CongressDaily reports.”
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John Loonsk, Government Health IT
“With the initial definition of “meaningful use” offered by the Health Information Technology Policy Council, we can finally see the broad contours of the administration’s plan for the health IT portion of the economic stimulus legislation.
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Health Care Trackers Blog
“I hope this gave some insight to my thoughts on the term meaningful use. When you look at the term meaningful use one really has to ask themselves who is the end user.
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Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTConsequences
“I have finished to check the proof of my article entitled Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 within the health care systems: an empirical exploration for Informatics for Health and Social Care (An International Journal of Informatics in Health Care).
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Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTConsequences
“On 23rd June I had the pleasure to present some of the results of our research in the Brown Bag Seminar Series at Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) in the Department of Sociology at University of York where I’m as a visiting researcher.”
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KevinMD.com
“As more patient records go electronic, there is debate as to how much of it a patient should see.
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Andy Kessler, Technology Review
“Technology is once again being touted as a cure-all, this time for what ails the American health-care industry. The Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus plan includes $19 billion for health-care IT spending that provides incentives for doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic health records.
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Andrew Noyes, NextGov
“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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Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“Die für die Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) verantwortliche Projektgesellschaft Gematik hat eine Studie (PDF-Datei) zur Eignung von USB-Sticks als dezentrale Speichermedien für Gesundheitsdaten veröffentlicht.
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Medical News Today
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (a.k.a. The Stimulus) set aside billions of dollars for hospitals to acquire electronic medical record systems, but one requirement for hospitals hoping to receive the money will be to share patient records with other facilities, the Dallas Morning News reports.
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Sam Collins, Healthcare IT News EU
“The European diabetes diagnostics market is poised for expansion with segments such as self-monitoring and point-of-care (POC) tests offering tremendous growth potential.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“Leading GP IT system supplier EMIS has unveiled its next generation IT system EMIS Web, promising interoperability with primary and secondary care providers.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“A new website based on e-therapy methods developed in Holland is to be launched next month in the UK.
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ehrsteve, EHR Scope Blog
“You have heard it so often it has almost become the Mantra of the EHR community. In order to qualify for federal incentives in the HITECH Act physicians must implement EHRs that demonstrate “meaningful use”.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“One of the more intriguing sessions at the recent Microsoft Connected Health Conference was that hosted by Mark Johnston, International Business Development Lead for Microsoft Health Solutions Group (HSG).
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Fred Trotter
“I am happy to say that Mark, Dennis and the other members of the CCHIT team have won my respect and appreciation with how they have taken a 90 degree turn from being an organization that was largely ignorant regarding the health FOSS movement to one that listened and engaged carefully, and has now come back with a plan for certification that I personally, and from what I can tell the FOSS community generally, can embrace.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Meaningful use of electronic health records goes way beyond using systems certified as meeting certain functionality requirements, the proprietor of a home health agency serving Northwestern Pennsylvania testified before Congress on June 24.
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