iHealthBeat
“The Department of Defense is looking to expand its personal health record service after a successful pilot test at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., InformationWeek reports.
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Karen Dearne, AustralianIT
“While all Australians will benefit from e-health initiatives, innovative technology and information systems will pay off big time in rural areas,” Dr Pesce said in his first address to the National Press Club in Canberra.
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Roy Mark, eWeek
“While coverage for telehealth systems by private insurers and Medicare/Medicaid is patchy at best, new report predicts some 15 million wireless devices will be in use by early 2012 to remotely monitor the well-being of elderly or at-risk people.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“The number of health information exchange initiatives that report being operational and exchanging data has increased nearly 40 percent since 2008, according to the eHealth Initiative’s Sixth Annual Survey of Health Information Exchange.
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Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“In der Testregion Heilbronn werden die Testläufe für die elektronische Gesundheitskarte abgebrochen. Wie die Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg in einer Mitteilung erklärt, wird es keinen 10.000er-Test in Heilbronn geben.
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Newswire
“Current electronic health records (EHRs) have a long way to go to meet the challenges of genetic/genomic medicine, reports a study in the July issue of Genetics in Medicine, the official peer-reviewed journal of The American College of Medical Genetics.
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Jeff Blander, SciDev Net
“Globally, just ten per cent of medical research and discovery budgets target the 80 per cent of people who live on less than US$10 a day.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“The Israeli Institute of Technology has created a miniature crawling robot small enough to crawl through human veins.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“Medfusion is boosting its offerings for physicians and their patients with the acquisition of Medem’s iHealth suite of services and the iHealth PHR.
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Colin Barras, New Scientists
“In the developed world, we take camera phones for granted as ways to record our lives – but in poorer countries they could be used to save lives, say bioengineers. The US team has designed a portable microscope that straps to a camera phone and can be used to diagnose potentially fatal diseases in blood and sputum samples.
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Science Blog
“Berkeley – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are proving that a camera phone can capture far more than photos of people or pets at play. They have now developed a cell phone microscope, or CellScope, that not only takes color images of malaria parasites, but of tuberculosis bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers.
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Ted Eytan, MD
It really seems that Health Information Technology is becoming more about people.
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Salvatore S. Volpe, Medical Economics
“My attempt to create a patient-centered medical home really started 20 years ago.
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Tim Cronin, The Channel
“On Sunday, the Boston Globe printed a portion of a letter to the editor I sent in regards to one of the paper’s articles.
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PRNewswire
“MEDNETWorld.com (MEDNET), a leader in Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) connectivity and clinical applications, in partnership with The Rubicon Group, eHealth Ohio, Bostech Corporation and TechColumbus Platform Lab have implemented The Ohio Health Point-of-Care (HPOC) Service enabling interoperable electronic exchange of clinical data for healthcare providers.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Last month, Dr. Dan Fletcher, who is an adviser in the White House Office of Science and Technology shared the Obama administration’s views on the emerging wireless health opportunity.
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Ethan, MBA HealthBlog
“Big news today on the patient portal front. Not only has Medfusion announced their acquisition of Medem’s iHealth, but Allscripts has finally announced their partnership with Medfusion (which has been developing for the past year…at least) to deliver the Allscripts Patient Portal. Allscripts has known that their partner, Medem, hasn’t exactly kept their iHealth product as “fresh” as it could’ve been.
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RedOrbit
“Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leader in software, services, information, and connectivity solutions for physicians and hospitals, and Medfusion, the leader in patient-to-provider online communication solutions, today announced a strategic agreement to provide the top-ranked Medfusion patient portal for Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management clients nationwide.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“The applications of mobile health monitoring via cell phone seem limitless, two experts say. “The cell phone is perfect because it’s like a wristwatch that you carry around,” Shankar Sastry, dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, says in an audio interview with iHealthBeat.
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Ryan Winter, Soliant Health
“The days of the house-call-making country doctor might just be back, due in part to emerging technology.
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