Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“Storage of healthcare data in the “cloud” is an important topic to understand. Although the use of this technology for all healthcare data is important, it is particularly relevant for the storage of radiology and pathology imaging data. For additional details about cloud storage, you want to review my past notes on this topic.
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Trisha Torrey, About.com
“Traditionally when we have needed a doctor or medical attention, we have had to seek it out — making an appointment, going to the library, checking for information on the internet.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“While investigating potential security holes in wireless pacemakers, Kevin Fu, software engineer and assistant professor of computer science at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has created a prototype “heart-attack machine,” according to a MIT Technology Review report.
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Lygeia Ricciardi, Project HealthDesign Blog
“Last month the eHealth Initiative (eHI) released its sixth annual survey of health information exchange and a report based on its findings, “Migrating Toward Meaningful Use: The State of Health Information Exchange.”
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Nick van Terheyden, Accelerating Adoption of Healthcare IT
“It has been an interesting week of rhetoric and emotional outbursts for and against healthcare reform. In amongst the many articles I found this post from David Kibbe on the Healthcare Blog: Why Standards Matter – the True Meaning of Interoperability;
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The RCGP Health Informatics Group
“We have been fortunate to benefit from the enthusiastic involvement of professional and patient stakeholder groups in order to achieve a wide agreement on principles. The significant interest, contribution and involvement across the spectrum has been quite exceptional, and demonstrates the clear priority given to having a unified, multi-professional approach to record keeping and quality care.
Computerisation of health records offers the prospect of rapid sharing of data and information in ways that are not possible with paper records. The potential benefits of this, in terms of patient safety, and efficiency and flexibility of healthcare provision have been widely promoted. There is, however, disagreement about just what should be shared, and by what mechanism.
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eHealthNews.EU
“SmartLife® Technology LtdSmartLife Technology has advanced remote monitoring by integrating sophisticated, knitted sensors into any garment from shirts to socks to arm bands. Until now, traditional health monitoring was fashioned through adhesive pads/gels, wired to medical equipment and focused on torso monitoring.
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Joseph Fortuna, Modern Healthcare
“There are few healthcare organizations that are fully prepared to adopt the kind of health information technology, or HIT, systems that are needed to take healthcare quality and patient safety to the next level.
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Government Health IT
“The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a rule in which online businesses that provide personal health records must alert consumers about violations to the security of their electronic health information. Congress directed the FTC to establish the rule, which it finalized Aug. 17, as part of the economic stimulus law.
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iHealthBeat
“On Monday, UnitedHealthcare announced plans to launch a telemedicine project designed to improve health care access for rural Colorado residents, the Denver Business Journal reports.
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HealthTechnicaAuthor7, HealthTechnica
‘It’s a scary thing to be denied health insurance – or even a job – due to a health condition. What’s even worse is when our medical records contain diagnoses and even treatments for conditions we do not have, never have had.
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BlueApoc, HealthTechnica
“For the first time in history, more people are searching the Internet for health information than asking doctors. Digital health consumers, known as e-patients, are now empowered, equipped, engaged, educated and connected to others electronically.”
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Susannah Fox, e-patients.net
“Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“As we often like to report, much of the innovation in mobile healthcare is coming from overseas, and not just from the usual high-tech suspects, but also from countries considered part of the developing world.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“A review of issues around medical records ownership and protection shows that medical records are the property of those who prepare them (medical professionals), and not the property of those about whom they are concerned (patients), although patients generally have a right to review them, demand copies of them and demand their confidentiality.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A recent IBM study reveals that online medical records are gaining favor with Americans. Consumer convenience that electronic health records (EHRs) delivers will slowly trump concerns over potential privacy violations and other security issues.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Title of this post is the title of a session I’ll be moderating at the upcoming AHRQ conference to be held in Bethesda, MD from Sept 13-16. If you’ve been thinking of attending this free conference (its put on by the feds) you’ll have to register soon for as of yesterday the event was almost sold-out.
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EMR Daily News
“PatientKeeper, Inc., a developer of physician information systems, and Sage, a provider of physician solutions including practice management and electronic health records, jointly announced that Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids will be expanding its PatientKeeper platform.
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EMR Daily News
“Identification Systems Group (ISG), a nationwide network of identification and card issuance sales and service experts, announced today it has officially pledged support for Project SwipeIT, a healthcare initiative through the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
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Howard Anderson, HDM Breaking News
“A new company is offering physician group practices a way to enable their patients to supply health information online in advance of a visit.
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