Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Medical students consider technology a ‘must have’ for their future practice, according to the fourth annual survey by healthcare IT company Epocrates.
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MedGadget
“Even though solid tumors often look like the healthy tissue they’re invading, they almost always present as fibrous densities, hence surgeons use their fingers to feel for a difference in stiffness during extraction.
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Sarah Arnquist, The New York Times
“After Amy Farber learned she had the rare and fatal disease called LAM in 2005, she became determined to increase and speed up research into her illness with the hope of finding a cure in her lifetime.
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MedGadget
“Now imagine being humbled at table tennis while playing with an amputee equipped with one of these. Or, perhaps, Intuitive Surgical should take a look at this technology for its upcoming da Vinci systems.”
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Bob Brewin, NextGov
“The government wants to use a radio frequency identification system to track certain Washington-area hospital patients in case of disaster, and is seeking small- or veteran-owned businesses to do the job.
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Jose, Little About
“While most of us scramble to understand the internet and the mysteries of cyberspace, scientists have already designed wash and wear motherboards. T-shirts for combat soldiers woven with plastic optical fibers relay the body’s vital signs and detect bullet wounds.
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Robin Harris, ZDNet
“Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used:
* A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests?
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Mainstream support for open-source electronic health records is gaining ground. And that’s a good thing for physicians.
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BlueApoc, HealthTechnica
“Cutting edge technology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus and Chillicothe’s ADENA Regional Medical Center has allowed for key advances in pediatric care through the use of telemedicine. Telemedicine allows for HD video conferencing of patients, so that the severity of a newborn’s condition can be established and more newborns can remain in their birth hospital rather than being transported away from their mother to Nationwide Children’s. Kelli Donahue shares her story and how telemedicine allowed her to stay connected to her newborn son during recovery.”
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“For reasons best known to itself, and despite the de-emphasis of the development of the approach in the National e-Health Strategy, NEHTA presses on indicating that their Individual Electronic Health Record (IEHR) is an important way forward.
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EMR Daily News
NaviNet (formerly NaviMedix), America’s largest real-time healthcare communications network, today announced the NaviNet Health Information Exchange (HIE), a solution that combines the “NaviNet Provider Network of more than 770,000 providers nationwide, and NaviNet technology and services. The NaviNet HIE is now available to all state governments and U.S. territories at no cost, enabling more efficient implementation and expansion of local health data exchange.
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EMR Daily News
“The Outcomes Company(R), today announced that Phoenix Children’s Hospital, one of the 10 largest freestanding children’s hospitals in the country, has successfully completed an enterprise-wide activation of the company’s computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system, Sunrise Acute Care(TM).
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PhysOrg
“Twitter, the increasingly popular social networking tool that was at first merely a convenient way to stay in touch with friends and family, is emerging as a potentially valuable means of real-time, on-the-go communication of healthcare information and medical alerts
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Shari Rudavsky, Indystar
“In Dr. Topper Doehring’s medical practice, paper charts are going the way of the doctor’s black bag.
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Mary K. Pratt, Computerworld
“The IT staff at Texas Health Resources Inc. must deliver more than technical functionality. And it needs to deliver more than the business requirements: It also has to meet the organization’s ethical standards.
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Laura, Implementing EHRs/EMRs
“Occasionally when you’re working in the field you run into products that make everyone’s life easier and you want to tell everyone about them because you like them so much. I have run into a new product that I like and doctors love: IMO.
One of the biggest problems providers face when going on an EHR is finding the diagnosis for the patient. Often times the EHR uses Ingenix and doesn’t provide any other form of mapping. So what does IMO do that’s different? IMO takes 15,000 ICD9s and maps them to 160,000 terms so that providers can use their own terminology to finally be able to find the diagnosis they’re looking for. SNOMED uses only 90,000. The other great thing? For groups who want to get better at HCC/RAF coding, they provide assistance with that also!”
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Laura, Implementing EHRs/EMRs, 23 August 2009
EHR Scope Blog
“Physicians believe that a major pitfall of an electronic medical record (EMR) is the fear that they will lose patient data during the EMR transition. They believe it is impossible to scan all patient charts into an EMR without error. Many physicians are proud of their thorough documentation, which is evident by their 3 inch wide charts.
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Mike Hasten, Shreveport Times
“A system that electronically links rural hospitals, allows doctors at LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport to treat patients in remote locations and puts patients’ electronic records at doctors’ fingertips has gained national recognition.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews
“For physicians trying to figure out how to adopt health information technology without going broke or dealing with salespeople, open-source software may sound like a godsend.
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Michelle Roberts, The Washington Post
“Staff Sgt. Juan Amaris laid in intensive care recovering from life-threatening burns when he got a peculiar visit from his doctor. Dr. Kevin Chung – rather, a 5-foot-tall camouflage-clad robot with Chung’s face on a monitor – rolled in to check on him.
With his proxy’s cameras zooming and wireless antennas beaming, Chung stood in a kitchen in Virginia and examined Amaris from 1,500 miles away, providing a connection between doctor and patient even as Chung was on vacation.”
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Michelle Roberts, The Washington Post, 23 August 2009
