Gunther Eysenbach's random research rants
“I am still shaken and thrilled by yesterdays’ big news: The Open Access publication Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), which I created 10 years ago, has now established itself as THE leading peer-reviewed journal in the field of ehealth, or as I prefer to put it, for “health and health care in the Internet age”.
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Mazely's Blog
“An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an individual health record that is accessible online from many separate, interoperable automated systems within an electronic network. (Health Canada).
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Rhonda L. Rundle, Kaiser Health News
“The Memphis area is one of a growing number of regions or states with a health information exchange, which enables electronic patient data to be shared among hospitals and physicians.
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e-Health Europe
“Health software firm, iSoft, has announced the fifth German early adopter site that will implement elements of its Lorenzo software as it becomes available.
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Theresa Boyle, The Star
“It irks Dr. Ben Chan that he can do his banking anywhere in the world, but his medical records can’t be instantly called up at a hospital.
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Marcia Gulesian, The Information Technology Forum
“A system that includes new and old technologies — partially represented by the use case diagram shown below — will be the subject of upcoming posts.
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HealthTechnica
“I have a wide variety of people that come to my site. They range from Health CIOs to school kids just learning about Health information. This video is for the latter. It is nice to have quick, simple explanations for folks that are just learning about the HIT field.”
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Khalid Al-Maghaslah, Titin.net
“I am reading a document by the information designer David Sless. He describes the process of designing usable medicines information. The medicine information is to be placed on medicine packaging and medicine leaflets.
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“These themes revolve around the consideration of healthcare information systems (increasingly used to mediate many aspects of medical care delivery) as medical devices requiring regulation by transparent and impartial authorities
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NPR
“The swine flu outbreak caused a minor panic all over the world, but swine flu’s got nothing on the great Rift Valley fever epidemic of 2006. Don’t remember that epidemic?
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“The Military Health System (MHS) AHLTA-Dental has consolidated Tri-Service Dental Records into a single secure electronic resource.
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Steve Downs, The Health Care Blog
“Today’s Boston Globe ran a story (page one, no less!) announcing our grant to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to run a three-site demonstration of opening up physicians’ notes to patients. That’s not just making labs, drugs, allergies, etc. available to patients – it’s giving them access to the actual notes that the physician records about a visit.
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June Q. Wu, Cleveland.com
“Three of Cleveland’s community health centers — Care Alliance, Neighborhood Family Practice and the Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services — will receive about $2.7 million combined in stimulus funding in July to switch over to electronic medical records systems and undertake other capital projects.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Collecting data about observations of daily living through personal health records can give physicians and patients insights unattainable from information captured only from clinical encounters, according to a new study.
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Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Melanie Au, and Patricia Higgins, Mathematica
“In recent years, the federal government and private-sector leaders have accelerated efforts to promote adoption of health information technology, or health IT. Initiatives include development of local efforts to exchange health-related information among providers—called “health information exchange” (HIE).
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Rebecca Vesely, ModernHealthcare
“Safety net providers need support to implement health information exchanges, but with that support, they can improve the care of the patients they serve through better technology, according to a new report.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“David Harlow over at the Health Blawg caught up with Microsoft SVP Peter Neupert event to discuss future plans for the company’s PHR platform HealthVault.
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PRWeb
“Last week, the World Health Organization declared the H1N1 virus, also commonly referred to as “swine flu”, a worldwide pandemic.
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theMobileHealthCrowd
“GeckoSystems say that their initial evaluation of a miniaturized, solid state onboard blood pressure and pulse rate monitor indicates it can be readily incorporated into its personal robot, the CareBot.
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theMobileHealthCrowd
“HealthFrontier, together with its technology partner, et medical devices of Italy, has introduced a new innovation in web-enabled electrocardiogram (ECG) technology.
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