Electronic News
“1. Health check proceedings may be on “physical” media such as motion picture (X-rays), paper (notes), or photographs, often of unlike sizes and shapes. corporeal luggage compartment of papers is challenging, as not all article types well in the equal size folders or luggage compartment spaces.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Yesterday’s ONC HIT Policy Committee meeting was a big one. Over the course of many hours, the committee went from hearing revised recommendations for Meaningful Use, to recommendations from the HIE workgroup and lastly recommendations regarding certification processes for EHRs.
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Cataract Outsourcing
“Beyond the fact that regulatory requirements are starting to trend towards electronic health records (EHRs), there are many other reasons adopting an EHR system makes sense for an ambulatory surgery center (ASC).
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The Value of Openness: The PatientsLikeMe Blog
“There are rare diseases, and there are rare diseases. Here at PatientsLikeMe our first community was built for patients with ALS (estimated US Prevalence: 30,000), and in common with our other neurological communities there is a familiar list of challenges: low public awareness, little funding for research, and a lack of adequate treatments.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“During yesterday’s meeting of the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee, there was a critical missing component of an otherwise excellent presentation by Deven McGraw and Micky Tripathi, C0-Chairs of the Health Information Exchange (HIE) Workgroup.
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John G. Bartlett, Medscape Today
“Early detection and a rapid response to seasonal and pandemic influenzas can improve outcomes and slow the spread of both.
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Kimberly Morrison, Jacksonville Business Journal
“When Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc. began covering digital doctor’s appointments, they were the first in the state to make an e-visit a billable service.
Five years later, a handful of other insurance companies including Aetna Inc. and Cigna Corp. have followed suit.
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New Mexico Business Weekly
“UnitedHealth Group Inc. announced Wednesday it has partnered with Cisco Systems Inc. to launch a “telehealth” network, which will use video technology to facilitate remote doctor-patient visits.
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Marcia Gulesian, The Information Technology Forum
“Given that many of the readers of this blog (from 42 countries so far) are interested in the information technology aspects of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , electronic health record interoperability and the like, it may be easier for them if I elaborate on the four terms listed above by using the example of cascading style sheets (CSS), a simple language that allows you to declare how documents are displayed by Web browsers.
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Julie Wilner, Roni Zeiger, The Official Google Blog
“Do you have medical records gathering dust in a pile somewhere? As a doctor and nurse on the Google Health team, we’ve both had a lot of experience working directly in the healthcare system, with all the bills, insurance forms and other paper documents that come with it.
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Cardiovascular Business
“A home telehealth monitoring program developed by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) has cut hospital readmission by 54 percent for heart failure patients.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“Laparoscopic surgery has been performed for the first time using a robotic assistant at the Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, in Malaga, Spain.
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The eHealth Blog
“Twitter.com, the widely-popular, free Web 2.0 platform that delivers short, real-time text messages to your social network of friends and colleagues, is slowly gaining traction in the healthcare market.
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Brian Ahier - Healthcare IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) HIT policy committee met to discuss recommendations from its workgroups on how providers can qualify to receive incentives through the new stimulus package.
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Gartner on behalf of The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in Sweden
“There is a significant healthcare improvement potential using eHealth as a catalyst. For the five political goals used in the study, the technology adoption is lower than 30%.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Initial recommendations of the federal HIT Policy Committee’s certification/adoption workgroup could spell the end of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology’s monopoly on certifying electronic health records systems.
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Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
“Intel is adding more connectivity options to its Intel Health Guide, a simple white box designed to give patients information about their health and virtually link them with their physicians and caregivers.
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Sheryl Ubelacker, Canadian Press
“It’s isolated and barren, accessible by plane for only a short window of time each summer. But for scientists exploring the frontiers of space-based telemedicine, Nunavut’s Devon Island is about as ideal a spot as any on Earth.
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Health Informatics Blog
“The task of developing and maintaining certification criteria should be separate from the function of actually testing software or organizations against that criteria, and there should be more than one organization that performs such testing, according to the HIT Policy Committee Workgroup on Certification and Adoption, which delivered its recommendations to the overall committee today.
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Government Health IT
“Healthcare providers could use electronic health records to submit quality data to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) beginning in 2010, if a proposed rule is finalized.
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