Sarah Kearns, HealthLeaders Media
“In 2008, Linda Severson, RN, was called into her superintendent’s office after the facility had experienced a near miss pertaining to look-alike/sound-alike drugs. He asked her if there was anything she could do to prevent this kind of problem from happening again.
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Nick van Terheyden, Accelerating Adoption of Healthcare IT
“The case is made – we need to keep the clinician patient interaction and preserve that content but it needs to be made useful.
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Mario Gibbels, ICTzorg
“Het Algemeen Dagblad heeft afgelopen zaterdag weer de jaarlijkse top 100 van beste Nederlandse ziekenhuizen gepresenteerd.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“EHRs have begun an inevitable march into the lives of all physicians. The US government has established an ambitious plan for their deployment, and providers seem both eager to comply and anxious to avoid financial penalties associated with not doing so.
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Lygeia Ricciardi, Project HealthDesign Blog
“Last week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule that helps to protect users of personal health records (PHRs).
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Trisha Torrey, About.com
“A report issued by Thomson-Reuters states that among those of us with Internet access, 12.2% of us exchange email with our doctors.
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peterjmurray, Dispatches from the hi-blogs.info krew
“The afternoon keynote presentation is by Rolf Ewers, from the Medical University of Vienna, on the use of augmented reality and telenavigation in surgery.
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Anne Zieger, FierceHealthIT
“While many healthcare professionals have limited their use of Twitter to social communication or marketing, it can be used for clinical purposes as well, suggests a new article appearing in a journal.
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Media-Newswire
“The latest technology is resulting in safer and more patient-focused care at The Ohio State University Medical Center with a conversion to a fully integrated electronic system for all medical records.
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drneelesh, Digital Medicine
“With increasing avenues for communication and knowledge dissemination, the practice of health care is changing faster than imagined. Free services like you tube, face book, Wikis, blogs, Twitter, social networks eg. Patientslikeme and a host of other services provide a health consumer with ample information and opinions.
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IMIA News
MIE2011, the 23rd international conference of EFMI, the European Federation for Medical Informatics, will be held in Oslo, Norway
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Lodewijk Bos
Unfortunately I am not able to be at the MIE 2009 Conference in Sarajevo. But thankfully, there is twitter. So for all those who are not at the event and do not have twitter, these are the most important tweets of the day.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has developed new smartphone technology to help improve the quality of healthcare in developing nations where medical services can be scarce.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews
“When it comes to electronic health records, functionality has had its time in the spotlight. Now, the buzz term is usability.
What’s the difference? Functionality is what a system does. Usability is how easily you and your staff can operate the system.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
THERE IS NO REASON TO CARRY AROUND ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS, ESPECIALLY NOT IN BULK.
Many stories have been published about breaches in EHR security, hospitals hacked, USB sticks lost, laptops stolen.
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Alison Dayani, Birmingham Mail
“Laptops containing the private and medical details of more than 7,000 Birmingham NHS patients, including sick children, have been stolen prompting a massive security alert.
Surgical firm Trulife used by four hospitals – Birmingham Children’s Hospital, City Hospital, in Winson Green, Sandwell Hospital, in West Bromwich, and Rowley Regis Hospital – has revealed that three computers have been taken.
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Fred Trotter
“Recently, a NEJM perspective article titled No Small Change for the Health Information Economy advocates that a Health IT platform should be created in imitation of some of the successful technology platforms in other areas.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The West Wireless Health Institute’s Dr. Eric Topol and Qualcomm’s CEO Paul Jacobs were just featured on CNBC in a clip about Internet users increasingly accessing the Web from mobile devices. Of course, the conversation quickly changed gears to focus on wireless healthcare.”
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“A reporter recently asked me to describe the quality measures and standards that are part of meaningful use.
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