HSJ
“A think tank claims remote diagnosis using the internet and call centres is the way forward for the NHS.
According to the Future Foundation, remote diagnosis, which is currently being used by the government to assist health staff with the swine flu pandemic, will increasingly be used by the NHS to diagnose conditions such as impotence, sexually transmitted infections and cystitis.
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Lumedx
“LUMEDX Corporation, a leading provider of fully integrated medical imaging and information systems, is offering Enabling the EHR, a complimentary new white paper about how software systems that capture data at the granular level and integrate easily with other systems enable meaningful use of certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
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e-Health Insider
“The National Patient Safety Agency has told E-Health Insider it is “unsure” whether its target to make sure that all patients in England and Wales have printed wristbands has been met.
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David Needle, Internetnews
“At a time of raging debate over what the government should do to improve health care, an IBM-sponsored survey set for release next week indicates the Web is vastly underutilized.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Edinburgh City Council has announced it is to spend almost £1m on telecare this year, more than doubling the amount it has spent in previous years.
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Globe and Mail
“Ontarians have cause to be irritated by some of the expense claims and consultancy fees racked up by the people who were supposed to be digitalizing health records. What should really concern them, however, is the long-term impact that the endless controversy over the eHealth Ontario agency will have on their province’s health-care system – and perhaps on other government services as well.
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EHR Scope Blog
“Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are now a vital part in improving our healthcare system.
By 2015 we will see a large shift in electronic charting due to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Once medical practices have a paperless office- what’s next? Personal Health Records.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
ICMCC is pleased to announce the XXII Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference of the EFMI
August 30 – September 2, 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For more information see the ICMCC Conference page.
Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Ochsner Health System a non-profit academic multi-specialty healthcare delivery system that includes seven hospitals and more than 35 health centers in Southwest Louisiana is going to use the REACH turn-key telestroke and telehealth service to improve stroke care in urban and rural areas throughout the state. REACH is typically installed in hub-and-spoke networks, where neurologists at a larger hub hospital provide consulting services to smaller spoke hospitals for remote stroke evaluation.
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John Moore, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“Despite the pending $36.3 billion that the U.S. government plans to spend over the next several years to drive physician adoption of electronic health record software, the market is at a standstill.
Why?
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Brian Ahier, Healthcare IT
“From finding medical marijuana to monitoring diabetes to pharmacy and ICD-9 coding, yup there’s an app for that. Below is a list of some of the many clinical applications for the iPhone in no particular order.
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IMIA News
“There is currently much debate about whether social networking tools, such as Twitter, have any real value.
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Kent News
“Doctors in the county have supported proposals to allow the public to view and amend their medical records online.
The suggestion, put forward by the Conservatives this week, is part of plans to give patients more control over their individual records.
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Jennifer Cragg, American Forces Press Service
“For servicemembers who still remember hand-carrying their medical records back and forth to appointments, the new virtual lifetime electronic record will help prevent misplaced paperwork and help providers maintain and offer quality health care, the acting director of the program said Aug. 13.
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Jason Shafrin, Healthcare Economist
“Currently, only 1.5% of U.S. hospitals have electronic records systems covering all their clinical units; an additional 7.6% have systems in at least one such hospital unit (Jha et al. 2009). This low EMR usage rate is astounding, especially since the RAND Corporation found that using EMR could save up to $77 billion annually.
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Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post
“The Department of Health and Human Services is almost certain to take on responsibility for creating the criteria used to decide what health records technologies qualify for billions of dollars in reimbursements to medical offices under a new stimulus program, officials said Friday.
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Alan Brookstone, Canadian EMR
“Stephen Strauss is a columnist who has written articles, columns and editorials about science and technology for the Globe and Mail for more than 20 years. We talked earlier today about a new series of articles that he is writing on Electronic Records.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek
“Rolling out electronic medical record systems is more than a complicated IT deployment, with all the challenges of any major business process reengineering effort. It’s also a public policy issue, with the federal government preparing to spend more than $20 billion in stimulus funds to reimburse providers for EMR deployments.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“One of the issues that federal officials must tackle as they write a rule defining meaningful use of electronic health records is to figure out how to know that a provider organization has achieved meaningful use.
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Bob Brewin, NextGov
“The top federal panel that sets policies for electronic health records so that a national system can be adopted made recommendations on Friday that would allow multiple organizations to certify electronic record products instead of the one certifying body that exists today.
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