Karen Dearne, Australian IT
“The e-health plan endorsed by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission gives local IT developers and medical professionals scope to build new products on top of the proposed Australian platform.
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Medical News Today
“A successfully completed electronic health record pilot project at Randolph Medical Center in Roanoke proves that even a small rural hospital can convert to electronic health records.
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Anne Zieger, FierceHealthIT
“While the health plan and provider industries may be easing into telemedicine, consumers may be a lot more enthusiastic about it, according to new research.
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David Davis, The Times
“When I read in the pages of this newspaper this month that the Conservative Party was planning to transfer people’s health data to Google, my heart sank. The policy described was so naive I could only hope that it was an unapproved kite-flying exercise by a young researcher in Conservative HQ.
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Alan Brookstone, CanadianEMR
“Australia is the the most recent nation to recommit to a significant investment in eHealth.
A report released today by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Health Minister Nicola Roxon suggests that Australia must spend $1.2 to $1.9 Billion on eHealth.
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Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet Australia
“Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Health Minister Nicola Roxon released a report on the nation’s hospitals today by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) which recommends a $1.2 to 1.9 billion spend on e-health.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“For her talk, Esther will state that intimacy and the Internet is now moving to the most intimate aspect of our lives, managing our ourselves, our bodies, our personal health – and this is where I was stumped when Esther asked if I had any concrete, quantifiable examples of how the use of Internet-based personal health solutions has had a demonstrable change on behaviors leading to better health.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“Among the many things that made the IxCenter’s Patient-Centered HIT Initiative great was listening in to what patients were saying about their care. We can learn an enormous amount from listening to consumers about their care experiences.
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Karen Dearne, AustralianIT
“Australia’s e-health strategy has been endorsed by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission, which also puts the federal government back in the driver’s seat after disastrous delays through the Council of Australian Governments process.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel has approved four interoperability specifications to support information exchange requirements under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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CNN
“Vital Signs’ Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on robots that help doctors treat troops around the world.”
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CNN
“Vital Signs investigates a device that could show a person is sick before symptoms even appear.”
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Nijland N et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 78(10)
Objective
To identify factors that can enhance the use of e-consultation in primary care. We investigated the barriers, demands and motivations regarding e-consultation among patients with no e-consultation experience (non-users).
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Ian Quinn, Pulse
“NHS IT chiefs have announced plans for a major acceleration in the use of patient electronic records, after a breakthrough which will finally make the rollout compatible with the biggest provider of GP computer systems.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Connecting for Health has announced that EMIS’s LV system has achieved full roll out approval for the Summary Care Record, which the agency has described as major breakthrough for the programme.
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Anne Zieger, FierceHealthIT
“People talk a lot about transparency, but when it comes to any form of enterprise data? Oohhh no, Mr. Bill! It sounds like a bad idea, doesn’t it? Consumers mucking around on your servers, setting off alarms, leaving virtual doors open everywhere? Nightmare.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“US-telehealth specialist Entra Health Systems has launched a patient messaging and alerts system designed to support diabetics who use MyGlucoHealth Meter, a platform developed to allow people to self-monitor glucose levels.
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eHealth Insider
“A website that will provide up-to-date information and surveillance on swine flu has been launched by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
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eHealthServer
“German based company HIT.net presents the Hospital IT Network, a ground-breaking, ambitious and extensive European eHealth online network for vendors and users of IT products and services in the healthcare sector with more than 1,500 profiles of Healthcare IT (ehealth) vendors and products.
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“Could it be that in little more than a decade, occupational, physical, behavioral and psychological therapists will not have a one-on-one relationship with their patients? That is the prediction of Prof. Gigore Burdea, a pioneer in the field of virtual rehabilitation and director of the Rutgers University Tele-Rehabilitation Institute, who spoke recently at an international conference at the University of Haifa.
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