Kathy Mahdoubi, DotMed News
“As health care institutions continue to implement electronic medical records (EMR) across the country, finding out how to unite disparate information systems across a community is becoming increasingly more important in achieving the Obama administration’s vision of health information technology in America.
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Kevin Heubusch, Journal of AHIMA
“CCHIT, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, has been the sole certification source for electronic health record products for some years now, but ARRA may change that.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“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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Bill Crounse, HealthBlog
“Are you among the seventy-five percent of physicians who haven’t yet implemented an electronic medical record solution for your practice? How much longer are you going to wait?
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“For years, we’ve been hearing about how a partial EMR implementation creates the need for dual electronic and paper systems, and we’ve always assumed that this scenario is highly inefficient.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers
“By several measures, access to care is jammed for many Americans, both insured and uninsured. As health reform in Massachusetts has demonstrated, access to coverage does not translate into access to care. Almost immediately after health reform brought near universal coverage to that state, residents began complaining about long waits to access care. If universal coverage meant that Massachusetts, a state with the highest number of physicians per capita, was wracked with physician shortages, then what are the implications for the rest of the nation?
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Howard Anderson, HDM Breaking News
“Nearly three-fourths of U.S. consumers say they would use telemedicine, defined as remote monitoring to track their condition and vital signs, a new survey shows.
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Amber Corrin, Federal Computer Week
“A Defense Department pilot program designed for easy access to medical files could propel government and military recordkeeping into the 21st century.
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HDM Breaking News
“Before implementing electronic health records, physician group practice administrators are weighing whether to rely on a vendor to remotely host the software and provide related services.
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EMR Daily News
“GE Healthcare announced a partnership with a leading provider of Clinical Decision Support for Diagnostic Imaging (CDS-DI), Medicalis, that seeks to help drive quality healthcare and reduce unnecessary imaging procedures and costs.
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Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“Last week I posted about the Iamenabled site which too can help you get your records set up on HealthVault. Follow the story along here in this video and learn more about why and how it works and why it makes sense today. At some point in time we may even experience additional charges for showing up with no information at the ER rooms too.”
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MedGadget
“Google Health recently pushed out an often asked for feature, the ability to store files and documents in a user’s PHR account. This includes images, .pdfs, and even audio and video files.
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Goomedic
“iPhone is an Internet enabled website , means it has an Internet connection , can browse websites , and surf the Internet .
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Goomedic
“Many medical sites now released their own iPhone and iPod Touch applications , which are so handful to browse , search and surf the site contents , with easy access for the needed information to save doctors time .
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Chip Means, Healthcare IT News
“Gematik, Germany’s Society for Telematic Applications of the Health Card, has approved vendor ICW’s Healthcare Connector for online use in test regions for the country’s patient health cards.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Do have a look at how EHRs can enhance the work of a physician, the position of a patient and the relationship between both.
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eHealth Initiative
Since 2004, the eHealth Initiative (eHI) has tracked the efforts, successes and failures of organizations across the country working on health information exchange. This report summarizes the results of eHI’s 2009 edition of the Sixth Annual Survey of Health Information Exchange.
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Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare
“The number of health information exchanges (HIEs) in the U.S. is soaring. While some recently formed exchange initiatives are looking to capture federal funds, the big increase in the number of operational HIEs appears to be unrelated to the $300 million that the economic stimulus legislation authorized for HIEs, since most of those exchanges have been in development for some time.
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Doug Beizer, Federal Computer Week
“Agencies need to prepare for an explosion of new data over the next five years that will be created partly because of emerging Web 2.0 technologies, Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, told a conference in Washington.
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PRNewswire
“Bolstered by the promise of the information age, coupled with billions of dollars in economic stimulus funding, life sciences and health care companies still may not meet lofty expectations of maximizing the value of data and automation efficiencies.
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