Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Internet provides public with health care information that they value and trust and which often stimulates discussion with their doctors,” concludes the latest Harris Poll into cyberchondria, a term that the organization began using in 2002.
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The Harris Poll
“The Internet has become a powerful influence in health care. Eleven years ago, in 1998, The Harris Poll reported that about one-quarter of all adults, 54 million people had ever gone online to look for health information. This number increased rapidly every year until 2007, when we found that 71% of adults, 160 million people, had done this.
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Jen S. McCabe, Health Management Rx
“If you’re in the market of trying to help consumers improve overall health and wellness, one microchoice at a time, then you are armpit-deep in the data market, my friend.
Personal Health Records (PHRs) providers are, in essence, next-gen health data companies.
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Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider
“Google’s global privacy counsel has hit back at former shadow home secretary David Davis for an article criticising the Conservative Party’s reported plans to hand over medical records to the search giant.
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Peter Fleischer, European Public Policy Blog
“We were surprised and disappointed to open the Times newspaper today and find a vitriolic column on Google and our record on privacy, from Conservative Member of Parliament David Davis.
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John Halamka, Healthcare IT News
“As promised in my earlier blog, the National Library of Medicine has created a “best practices” subset of SNOMED-CT which is highly usable by clinicians for documenting the symptoms and conditions used on a typical Problem List.
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European Research Headlines
“New and innovative developments bolster the well-being of people. Now a team of EU-funded researchers has succeeded in embedding sensing devices directly into textiles to create garments that are not only comfortable and practical to wear, but also smart. The devices will help physicians keep an eye on their patients.
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Serdar Yegulalp, InformationWeek
“The other day I spoke with Rick Jung, COO of Medsphere, providers of the commercial open source health care software package OpenVista.
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Patrick Hilbert, The Industry Standard
“As part of the Pan African e-Network project, Mauritius has been selected to host a Super Speciality Regional Hospital, which will link to other hospitals in the region and offer telemedicine services.
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Howard Anderson, HDM Breaking News
“Stamford (Conn.) Hospital has purchased 100 licenses for Web-based practice management and electronic health records software from eClinicalWorks, Westborough, Mass.
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Gautham Nagesh, NextGov
“Anyone who has used the Internet is likely familiar with Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia edited and run almost entirely by volunteers. Wikipedia is the Web’s most prominent source of information, but because of its crowd-sourcing model, it’s not always the most credible.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“If there is not a coherent plan developed soon to leverage the momentum that has been provided by the report release then there is a real risk of the whole thing sinking into some terrible bureaucratic mire – and that would be very sad indeed having got this far!
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Kat Sanders, Telehealth Canada
“It is ironical when we stop to think of it – although mankind is making rapid advances in the field of medicine and finding new ways and methods to diagnose, battle, cure and manage diseases, the cost of healthcare is rising by the day and more and more people are in need of medical attention than ever before.
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EMR Daily News
“eClinicalWorks® today announced that Stamford Hospital, serving Connecticut’s lower Fairfield County and a major teaching affiliate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, has selected eClinicalWorks’s unified electronic medical records and practice management solution for its employed and affiliated physicians.
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HealthTech Wire
“Carestream Health announced a five-year eHealth Managed Services (eMS) agreement with Maasstad Ziekenhuis in Rotterdam, the Netherlands for remote storage of DICOM and non-DICOM data.
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The Guardian
“Essential in life, Google may soon play a part in death. Earlier this month the company added an option to its Google Health site allowing users – so far only in America – to state their final wishes. “One of the most important documents you may want to store and share in Google Health is an advance directive,” announced the Google blog.
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Clancy Yeates, The Age
“By 2012, every Australian should have an electronic health record, a Federal Government report advises.
As the health system braces for the greying population, moving the system away from paper-based records should be a key priority, the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission said yesterday.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“Former Conservative home secretary David Davis has slammed his own party’s reported plans to hand health records to commercial IT companies as “naïve” and “dangerous.”
Writing in The Times yesterday, the MP for Haltemprice and Howden said the first time he read about the policy his “heart sank.”
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John, EMR and EHR
“It has always been important to use EMRs in a meaningful way, but now you can get paid ($44,000 per physician) if you jump through hoops created by organizations like CCHIT which is the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, who want to make money for their executives and suppress competition for their top clients. The government has put the wolves in charge of guarding the hen house. Diversity, choice and competition have taken a back seat to self-serving regulation based on big business payoff of our government at its highest level (the big EMR companies have bought Obama).
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