The perfect device for the developing world is not the PC
Clive Longbottom, Silicon
“We have the right hardware for developing countries – it’s just not a PC, says Quocirca’s Clive Longbottom.
[ More ]
Articles
Pediatrics has unique EMR and HIT needs
Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“What works for adults may not be so suitable for children. That’s the lesson of a new report on health IT for pediatric care from two California research organizations.
[ More ]
Panel Seeks Better Use of Family History
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“An independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health contends the industry needs to better understand how information from family health histories can be effectively collected and used in primary care settings.
[ More ]
Rabbit Healthcare Systems Launches Health Information Exchange
EMR Daily News
“Rabbit Healthcare Systems, the leading oncology electronic health records (EHR) and practice management system, today announced that it has launched the first phase of its health information exchange (HIE), going live with functionality and data exchange between McKesson’s Lynx® Mobile Inventory Management System, GenPath (BioReference Labs) Reference Lab, and Docuda’s ERCard patient (ICE – In Case of Emergency) product.
[ More ]
EHR adoption tied to careful planning and support
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“When details of the federal incentive payments within the HITECH Act of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 emerged earlier this year, there was some concern that a gold rush would ensue to simply implement an electronic health record (EHR) system to get at those dollars.
[ More ]
Health Info Exchanges Gain Ground as Patient Data Sharing Tools
Sheri Porter, AAFP News
“As the scramble to get physicians onboard with electronic health records, or EHRs, garners headlines across the country, another piece of the high-tech puzzle has been gaining ground — the health information exchange.
[ More ]
Migrating Toward Meaningful Use: The State of Health Information Exchange
eHealth Initiative
In 2009, 150 initiatives across the country responded to and qualified for inclusion in the eHealth Initiative’s Sixth Annual Survey of Health Information Exchange. eHI identified 43 additional initiatives that are functioning, which did not complete the 2009 survey.
[ More ]
Digital Health Records and the Swine Flu
Steve Hamm, BusinessWeek
“The promise of digital medicine has been trashed by skeptics, including some at BusinessWeek. Call me crazy, but it seems to me that warning against digital health records today is like railing against the dangers of the automobile in 1900. Or like urging people to keep reading magazines on paper rather than reading the same material online. It might ruin the paper publishing industry!
[ More ]
The Rising Importance Of Clinical Data
Andrew MacGarvey, Life Science Leader
“I have always had a great interest in data and how it is collected and handled; my career has included roles in statistical programming, database design, systems implementation, and electronic data capture (EDC). Anyone who works in these disciplines knows that as technology has advanced, more data has become available from increasingly diverse sources. The technical component of the role of a Clinical Data Manager has increased greatly during the last 10 years and is set to continue to do so.
[ More ]
Telehealth, online appointments could ease healthcare access jam
Allison Tsai, Modern Medicine
“Universal coverage could clog the healthcare system unless new care-delivery models are created, such as telehealth and online doctor appointments, according to a survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
[ More ]
The Convergence Of Health Care & Information Technology
Brian Gormley, WSJ Blogs
“Venture capitalists invested more in health care than information technology last quarter for the first time in a quarter this decade. That shift is likely to correct itself as the economy improves, but there is a trend that does have legs: emerging opportunity at the intersection of both fields.
[ More ]
Improved Quality and Efficiency through a PHR
Robert N. Mitchell, Advance
“Electronic patient records are important to the cause of advancing quality and efficiency, federal government leaders say. So, when myNYP.org, New York Presbyterian Hospital’s personal health record (PHR) launched earlier this year, there was a huge media splash, because the hospital was reportedly the first in the country to implement a PHR portal.
[ More ]
HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association Applauds Federal Support of EHR Implementation for Hospitals and Physician Practices
RedOrbit
“The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association) responded with enthusiasm to the announcement on August 20 of the availability of grants totaling nearly $1.2 billion to help hospitals and health care providers successfully install and use electronic health records (EHRs)
[ More ]
Why We Are Doing This Health Care Reform All Wrong
Allen Stern, Center Networks
“It seems these days you can’t put on the TV without every channel discussing the health care reform in the U.S. On my flight back from Austin, the JetBlue monitor was filled with people saying yay or nay to President Obama’s plan to create a better healthcare system for all of us here in the United States.
[ More ]
Part 4: The Technology “e-bilities”: Reliability, Secure-ability, Useability, Read-ability & Accessibility
Deborah Leyva, Healthcare & Technology
“Publishing reliable content on the internet is an important step toward achieving effective use of technology for healthcare. Many hospitals and practices are even using Social Media to promote services of their health systems.
[ More ]
Hospitals Update Data Centers
HDM Breaking News
“As community hospitals gear up their clinical automation efforts and reach out to help area physicians adopt electronic health records, they’re taking a closer look at whether their data centers will meet their needs.
[ More ]
Simple Internet Tools For Improving Healthcare
Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“When we think about using IT for improving healthcare, we think about big, expensive projects like electronic medical records and physician order entry systems.
[ More ]
Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors, Says New Report By International EMF Collaborative
Medical News Today
“A new report, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone,” was released today by a collaborative of international EMF activists.
[ More ]
Health and the Mobile Phone
Jack Dowie, ihealthbook
“This paper provides an overview of the implications of this trend for the delivery of healthcare services. In addition to addressing how mobile phones are changing the way health professionals communicate with their patients, a summary is provided of current and projected technologic capabilities of mobile phones that have the potential to render them an increasingly indispensable personal health device.
[ More ]
The HIT Deluge Part I: The Need and the Opportunity
Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“There was a time–not too long ago, in fact– when it seemed safe and reasonable to define health information technology narrowly: the acronym encompassed the management of health information and its secure exchange between patients, providers, and insurers.
[ More ]
