John Moore, Healthcare IT News
“Yesterday’s ONC HIT Policy Committee meeting was a big one. Over the course of many hours, the committee went from hearing revised recommendations for Meaningful Use, to recommendations from the HIE workgroup and lastly recommendations regarding certification processes for EHRs.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Universal coverage could swamp the healthcare system unless steps are taken to create innovative new care delivery models such as telehealth and online doctor appointments, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Rahul Parikh, The Health Care Blog
“Wow. I’ve just taken care of three patients in 12 minutes, and I didn’t do it by “churning” them through my office as if it’s some sort of factory assembly line. Rather, those patients (their parents, more specifically — I’m a pediatrician), e-mailed me over a secure network with questions and descriptions of signs and symptoms.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Connecticut is building a Health Information Exchange (HIE) based at least in part on open source software.
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Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Lorenzo Valeri, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Evi Hatziandreu, Annalijn Conklin
“This report provides an assessment of the main drivers, obstacles and uncertainties surrounding the deployment of RFID in healthcare in Europe. It identifies the most promising RFID applications in healthcare delivery by reviewing potential for increasing patient safety and the reduction of costs.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“Why we are not getting the coherence and value from all this work is because those who are meant to be creating the strategic framework for all the various actors in the e-Health domain are essentially out to lunch and have not done their job at all well over the last 5 and a half years.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Connecting for Health is seeking views from clinicians on the future of its personal health record project HealthSpace, following a similar survey for patients.
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Michael S. Hawkins, EHR Blog Scope
“When choosing a Scanning Service, it is important to understand the benefits of choosing a company that can provide on-site scanning services. Many companies, including OptiScan®, have the capabilities to digitize your chart folders without them ever leaving your office!
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ScienceDaily
“The results of a new study of the pen and paper workarounds employed by healthcare providers who use an electronic medical record system may help make electronic medical records even more useful to health-care providers and the patients they serve.
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Joe Carlson, Modern Healthcare
“As a wave of reform legislation threatens to upend many certainties in healthcare, the industry’s largest single workforce—nursing—already finds itself at the cusp of significant change.
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Christopher Weaver, Newjerseynewsroom
“Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama Administration’s national coordinator for health information technology, can recall the day he became a true believer in the potential of electronic health records. He was about to order a lung scan when the computer in his Boston hospital alerted him to a similar image already in the file. The patient was spared an unnecessary dose of radiation and the health care system was spared the cost of an unnecessary test.
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
“As it has with most conversations about healthcare information technology these days, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 dominated the discussions at the 18th annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif., last week.
One of those discussions involved health disparities.
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EarthTimes
“Healthcare Solutions (HCS), the leading provider of healthcare solutions in the Middle East, has announced that the Ministry of Health in Qatar has awarded HCS a contract for the supply, installation, training and support of an HL7 interface engine to integrate their healthcare information system, PACS and Blood Analyzers, at the Medical Commission facility.
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Marguerite Reardon, CNET News
“The current health care crisis has some experts saying that telemedicine’s time has finally come.
While technology companies have been touting the use of virtual technology to allow doctors to remotely examine and monitor patients for decades, up until recently the business case for deploying these expensive systems was hard to justify.
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Longwoods Healthcare Blog
“As of July 17, British Columbians can begin to apply disclosure directives to manage their Electronic Health Record (EHR) in advance of the system going live later this year and throughout 2010.
An EHR is a secure and private record of patient’s health history and care within the health system.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I posted previously a short summary of the changes to meaningful use in the final meaningful use matrix presented at the HIT policy committee meeting.
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Business Wire
“Sequel Systems, Inc., a dynamic, service-oriented healthcare technology company, today announced the SequelMed eRx Initiative, which will make the company’s SequelMed e-Prescribeâ„¢ solution available to qualified hospitals and medical societies free of charge. The initiative is part of Sequel Systems’ ongoing campaign to reduce medical errors by increasing the adoption and active use of e-prescribing technology in hospitals and physicians’ offices across the nation.
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Deb Borfitz, eCliniqua
“Clinical trial sponsors are largely unaware of the conflict that arises when dealing with the new, increasingly Internet savvy e-patient who is highly motivated, well educated, self-advocating, and self-informing.
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ZAMP Bionews
“An initiative to boost cancer prevention, treatment and care throughout Europe by improving communications within the cancer community kicks off today (Monday 20 July) with the launch of a new website: http://www.eurocancercoms.eu. The project will involve all those with an interest in cancer, from researchers and doctors to patients.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The University of California’s San Diego Medical Center will expand its use of speech-recognition technology to several facilities, allowing physicians to include real-time speech recognition in documenting electronic health records.
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