Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“Medical research takes a lot of time. Clinical trials and the unfolding of outcomes, like whether a sick patient is cured of an ailment and suffers no reoccurrence months or years later, can take decades. But the collection, sharing, and analysis of data involved with medical research should get much easier.
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Focus
“Wer Krankheiten anderer Leute auskundschaften will, könnte ab Donnerstag leichtes Spiel haben. Dann wird die neue Gesundheitskarte eingeführt.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“The results of a recent survey suggest that Medicare beneficiaries who use Kaiser Permanente’s personal health record are overwhelmingly satisfied with the service, and are in general quite comfortable using the Internet to manage their health care online.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“Despite the personalized attention I get in our pediatrician’s office and their general responsiveness to calls — both to their own nurse call line and during on-call hours — I find certain aspects of this 20th-century practice frustrating. The most important ongoing issue relates (not surprisingly) to the one chronic condition we have to manage: The intermittent asthma of my youngest son, 5-year-old Ryan.
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Jörg Tschürtz, Innovations Report
“Wissenschafter der University of Toronto haben einen Microchip aus Nanomaterial entwickelt, der den Typ und den Schweregrad einer Krebserkrankung rasch identifizieren kann.
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Cynthia Osterman, Reuters
“Electronic medical records might help doctors identify men and women most likely to be victims of domestic abuse, and perhaps some day other medical conditions, too, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
‘The European Commission has published an update on its lead market initiative for e-health, reporting that it is too early to tell whether work has had an impact on growing the continent’s e-health market.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“The Purchasing & Assistance Collaborative for Electronic Health Records is partnering with two health IT vendors in an effort to provide Arizona’s physician practices with affordable electronic health records.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions has signed two more contracts to provide healthcare IT solutions for healthcare providers and affiliated physicians in four states.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“It seems many have difficulty coming to grips with just what impact it is that a broader use of Information Technology might have on our health system. This difficulty is also often combined with the problem of working out just how it might be possible to get from where our Health System presently is to a new Health IT enabled health system.
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The Medical News
“Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “The Medical Device Market: South Korea” report to their offering.
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David Twiddy, The Seattle Times
“Doctor’s offices and hospitals have slowly started the difficult switch from outmoded paper records to sophisticated electronic systems in a bid to improve care and cut costs.
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Jacqueline Fackeldey, ICMCC Blog
“What wouldn’t we gain in health care if we did the obvious but unusual? For example, collaborating with medical equipment manufacturers in addition to better teamwork?
Imagine the tangible and less tangible profits if a patient spent 15 seconds less in an MRI scanner or radiation treatment device?
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Lucien Engelen,Zorg 2.0
“Doel van deze korte video is een beeld te schetsen van ontwikkelingen op het gebied van de zorg en internet.
U te informeren en te inspireren over mogelijkheden, waarbij de uitdaging is om de patient een centralere rol (terug) te gaan geven.”
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Terry Jeffrey, Town Hall
“Should doctors and hospitals be required by the federal government to maintain a national network of electronic health records for every individual in America that indicates, for example, whether that individual has had an abortion, a sexually transmitted disease, a mental illness or a drug problem?
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Howard Anderson, HDM Breaking News
“Bowing to physician demand, Baptist Health, a Little Rock, Ark.-based system with seven hospitals, enables clinicians to use a variety of hand-held devices to view clinical data when they’re on the go.
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Laurie Barclay, Medscape Today
“Electronic alerts for abnormal imaging results may not always result in timely follow-up, according to the results of a study reported in the September 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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ScienceDaily
“Doctors could predict a patient’s risk of receiving a domestic abuse diagnosis years in advance by using electronic medical records as an early warning system, according to research published on the British Medical Journal website.
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Elizabeth Cooney, Boston Globe
“Boston researchers reported today a novel use for electronic medical records — using data in patient records, they say they were able to identify likely victims of domestic abuse an average of two years before a diagnosis was actually made.
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Dean Takahashi, Venture Beat
“Healthcare in developing countries could get a shot in the arm from mobile health apps being developed by startups, according the executive director of the mHealth Alliance.
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