Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Nearly 10 percent of U.S. hospital intensive care units use advanced telemonitoring, yet no one has studied how it affects cost and quality of care, according to a new report.
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Chris Seper, MedCity News
“Cleveland Clinic’s emerging business department will turn its attention to proliferating Clinic “culture” and at least two distance-health initiatives, its new leader said.
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Philip Elliott, NextGov
“Vice President Joe Biden plans to announce Thursday nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals transition to electronic medical records.
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Roy Mark, eWeek
“The variety of sensors for measuring a growing array of vital signs and symptoms continues to grow at a strong rate with patient monitoring devices expected to deliver $950 million in revenue over the next five years.
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Samuel R. Bierstock, Medical Economics
“President Obama has announced his goal to digitalize our nation’s medical record system. If achieved, this wonderful and lofty notion would reduce medical errors, increase the quality of care delivered, bring consistency of care to our citizens, reduce costs associated with delivering healthcare, and quite possibly drive the physicians who are supposed to use these records out of business.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The mandate for implementing electronic health records (EHRs) should be tied to tort reform. So says Samuel Bierstock, MD, founder of clinical IT consulting firm Champions in Healthcare, in a Modern Medicine editorial.
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EMR Daily News
“Medical students give the U.S. healthcare system a poor grade and consider technology a ‘must have’ for their future practice.
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Chris Silva, AMNews
“A patient privacy coalition is not happy with recommendations released in July that outline how doctors and hospitals could use electronic health records in a way that qualifies for federal stimulus money. The group says key privacy regulations need to be enacted more quickly.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has started a £12.8m record management project to transfer more than 1.2m medical records online and move the trust “into the 21st Century.”
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The Medical News
“The market for wireless devices that monitor patients’ condition and report that data to healthcare providers is on the verge of explosive growth, according to a new study from ABI Research.
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Karen Dearne, AustralianIT
“Australian Medical Association president Andrew Pesce has signalled concerns about plans for patient-controlled e-health records.
Dr Pesce believes provider-controlled input is needed to improve quality of care and reduce adverse health outcomes.
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Anthony, EHRTech
‘With two large players, Microsoft and Google, entering the health IT marketplace, it would make sense that the two would drive standards for information exchange between applications and their PHR systems.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“Fewer new clinical information systems were sold in 2008 than during the previous seven years, according to a new report. But that trend will change in a big way soon.
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David Blumenthal, Health IT
A Message from Dr. David Blumenthal,
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
“In my role as National Coordinator for Health IT, I have the privilege to be part of a transformative change in health care that will help to extend the benefits of health information technology (HIT) to all Americans.
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SmartHealthcare
“A report commissioned by NHS Connecting for Health calls for patients to become ‘full partners’ in sharing clinical data.
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Minn.Post
“The stethoscope’s software allows physicians to save records and send them electronically to colleagues for second opinions.
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PhysOrg.com
“Hoping to broaden understanding about the benefits of Omega-3 fatty acids, a Purdue University-based international consortium has launched a Web site and newsletter campaign to educate the public, physicians and veterinarians.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“The University of California at Merced’s Valley Telehealth Partnership is too new to have made an impact on the physician and nurse shortages in the San Joaquin Valley.
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Pharmabiz.com
“Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center has taken a significant step to further safeguard clinical research patients at the NIH Clinical Center who are exposed to radiation during certain imaging tests.
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Brian Ahier, Health IT & Healthcare Reform
“I am certain that meeting the “meaningful use” criteria will include e-prescribing.
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