Deborah Leyva, Healthcare & Technology
“As I listened to Don Berwick, CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) define quality of health care in this video, I reflected on the six objectives Dr. Berwick cited from the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) publications To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm.
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Jaotte, Dr. Ottematic
“I’m loving my iPhone. In fact, I am writing this post on a ferry, using tethering on my iPhone for the internet connection. It’s glorious!
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Jay Cline, Computerworld
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is about to rule whether health care entities will need to notify patients if their de-identified data — patient data that has been stripped of all potential for identifying individuals, which is often used for research and development — is breached.
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Bill Cast, The Healthcare IT Guy
“You may ask what qualifies me to speak. First, I am a physician in a six doctor practice who for eight years has been digital, using a fully-featured EMR. Our old record room is now an employee lounge serving Peet’s Coffee. I live in an Indiana city in which 65% of physicians use some form of EMR in their offices and in which a regional health information exchange serves 95% of all providers.
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Alan Brookstone, Canadian EMR
“Increasing amounts of health information are being collected and stored electronically as a result of the rising adoption of electronic health records in hospitals and medical practices. There is a significant demand for this information among academic and commercial researchers, public health agencies, government agencies, insurers and marketers.
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George Miller, FierceBiotech IT
“Drug developers and clinicians who want to tap medical records for insight into their research may be in line for a windfall: data capture solutions provider Kofax has signed a software deal to help automate the processing of millions of patient medical records for business process outsourcing provider EDCO Group’s hospital and health clinic customers.
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WDN
“WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD) , the leading source of health information, announced the launch of Medscape Mobile, a free medical application for physicians.
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Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
“A federal advisory panel on patient privacy wants encryption, strong access controls and audits to protecting patients’ medical records under the program advanced by the economic stimulus law, according to the co-chair of the group.
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Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
“But Dr. Deborah Peel, founder of the Coalition for Patient Privacy, said the proposals postpone several major privacy protections until 2015 even though the bulk of the health IT implementations will begin in 2011.
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Chuck Webster, Electronic Health Record Workflow Management Systems
“My 2003 white paper “Electronic Medical Record Workflow Management: The Workflow of Workflow,” which includes results from a survey of primary care practices documenting a workflow automation-induced productivity surge, has garnered a lot of web traffic over the years.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Yesterday on a call of the HIT Standards Committee Privacy and Security Workgroup, we had a great discussion about Common Data Transport and Health Information Exchange.
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Colin Barras, New Scientist
“While we don’t yet have holographic physicians to consult, healthcare is moving online, encouraged by an international coalition of medical and technology companies.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel has approved new interoperability specifications for electronic health records, data exchange and architecture that align with the federal government’s stimulus package for healthcare IT.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“A telemedicine trial, undertaken by Cisco, has proven a success after almost 100 percent of responses suggested the technology used was acceptable, according to Cisco Systems, a U.S.-based multi-national corporation.
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eHealthServer
“eHIT Ltd in collaboration with INS Group, a leading Home and Community Care, Personal Response System provider and Health Call Centre organisation in Australia, have created a mobile health workforce management tool designed to help nurses in providing unmatched patient care remotely.
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PRWeb
“If you’re a permanent resident of Arizona or Utah and have Original Medicare, you now have free access to a better way to manage medication and health information. A new program, Medicare PHR Choice, helps you build your own personal health record.
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seeker401
“all medical records online by 2012..nice and easy for a hacker to get all the information they want in one place..and companies like universata will be in the prime seat to take advantage of this new development..
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Voxy
“Today, people are storing more and more personal stuff on the internet. This is risky because they do not know who can access their information or what they could do with it (e.g. Identity fraud, breach of privacy).
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Steve Bush, Electronics Weekly
“Californian scientist have used a phone as the basis of a low-cost medical microscope for the developing world, with built-in image analysis.
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Business Wire
“Around the world multiple social factors are putting strain on existing healthcare operations, but a new wave of interest and investment in wireless body sensors will help healthcare providers to improve treatment as well as increase efficiency and cut costs. Key to these benefits is the development of wireless sensors to measure important body parameters and communicate the data to remote systems. These developments are examined in a new study from ABI Research.
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