Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“A study of more than 5,400 patient records from 23 physician practices across the nation shows that physicians often fail to inform patients of abnormal test results, or to document that their patients were informed.
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Howard Anderson, HDM Breaking News
“A new Web site is rallying support for patients’ rights to access and share their own health information.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“There are a million stories in the naked city when it comes to personal health information…many of which end up very badly.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“The foundational element to knowledge, from which wisdom flows, is information. Without information one can not begin to understand.
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MedGadget
“This technology might come in handy to those who don’t want to haul their sick relatives with Parkinson’s all the way to a clinician for visual observation of the progress of disease. To test whether telemedicine is an appropriate option for getting patients and physicians together, and whether the technology is good enough to observe resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, postural instability, and other symptoms of Parkinson’s, doctors Kevin Biglan and Ray Dorsey from University of Rochester Medical Center enrolled a group of elderly Parkinson’s patients from the Presbyterian Home for Central New York into a pilot study that has yielded promising results.”
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Brian Baum, The Health Care Blog
“I have a good friend at Duke University – Dr. Ed Hammond. (Ed has been involved in advancing electronic health information for quite some time – probably longer than he’d like to remember.)
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RedOrbit
“Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health have developed a game for HIV-positive youth, +CLICK, designed to reduce secondary transmission of the virus.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“I’ve been immersed in cutting-edge technology and stories about the same for the past day and a half while at the sixth annual Healthcare Unbound conference in Seattle, a city that is a hotbed of technological and healthcare innovation itself.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Even elderly patients are changing long-held beliefs that doctors know best, and remote telemonitoring is the reason why, according to the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare System in Boston.
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Peter Yellowlees, ABC Article Directory
“It is clear that most stakeholders in the health industry now support President Obama’s view that it is essential that we have substantial healthcare reform, and soon. The arguments around the issue are not whether this should happen, but how and when it will occur.
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PRNewswire
“HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that while health systems and physician groups in the Phoenix market seem to be ahead of the curve in adopting electronic medical records (EMR), there is a high rate of “deinstallation” wherein physician groups cancel their EMR contracts as a result of training, functionality or affordability issues.
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Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“Starting with a few dozen supporters, including health bloggers, individual physicians, startups and Microsoft, a group is seeking to firmly inject the rights of patients into the Obama administration’s multibillion-dollar drive to computerize medical records.
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Kaiser Health News
“Tonia Odom, a 35-year-old patient with rheumatoid arthritis, a sick father and a young son, each of whom has multiple health problems, has found some relief to the problems of managing her families’ array of illnesses in at a Duke University clinic that’s a model of the “medical home” approach to medicine, the New York Times reports.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Here’s a new acronym in a field filled with them: WBAN, which stands for wireless body-area networks, in the emerging market segment of home health monitoring devices.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“It had to happen. After weeks of following the discussion “meaningful use” it became obvious that the patient should be part of the equation. And it did happen.
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Roni Zeiger, Google Public Policy Blog
“From its inception Google Health has been about giving patients control over their medical data. For starters, that means we help people access their health information, give them a safe and secure place to store it, and let them share it with others if they wish.
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Steve Nowottny, Pulse
“Plans to give patients across the country direct email access to their GP have been shelved, amid fears over costs and mounting concern over low patient take-up.
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Jen McCabe Gorman, Health Management Rx
“This is a very difficult decision for me.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“The Royal College of General Practitioners has publicly backed the Summary Care Record following criticism of its consent model by GP representatives from the British Medical Association.
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e-Patient Dave, The New Life of e-Patient Dave
“Current regulations require that you be given your records on request, but they can take up to two months to do so, and they can charge various amounts.
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