Physicians Using Twitter
iCons in Medicine
“A recent report from Forrester Research indicates that the use of social networking websites among people aged 35 to 54 increased by 60 percent in the last year.
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How New Communication Patterns Will Change Healthcare
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Federal panel okays EHR security, privacy standards
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Health IT Standards Committee today endorsed a set of security and privacy standards for electronic health record systems that it said would get progressively tougher without holding back wider health information sharing.
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Maryland takes epidemic warning system statewide
Heather Hayes, Government Health IT
“Maryland will have a statewide early warning system in place this fall as it attempts to stay abreast of the swine flu threat and other public health concerns.
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Presentation: PHRs, What Are They Good For?
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Chilmark Research had the privilege and honor to present and moderate a session at the AHRQ’09 event here in Washington DC yesterday. Title of the session was PHRs: What Are They Good For?
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Personal health records continued
Dave West, HSJ Blogs
“Following my frustrated experiments with three personal health records last week, Brian Fisher, a GP in south London and public and patient involvement lead at the NHS Alliance, has drawn my attention to another option.
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Health care eyes smart phones to heal ills
Denise Deveau, Globe and Mail
“For a lot of consumers and business people, using smartphones to their fullest has become second nature. But when it comes to health care … not so much.
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Safety net system may reduce preventable patient deaths
Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Hospitals using a patient monitoring system developed by Masimo are reporting a decrease in preventable patient deaths and injuries.
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Dell Jumps into the Office EMR Market
Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“I find it useful to distinguish between office EMRs and hospital EMRs, although healthcare IT articles often don’t make this distinction clear. Although both types of software support healthcare delivery, physician office practices are a world apart from hospitals. Some software vendors have developed EMRs that operate in both environments but which are frequently too complex for optimal use in physician offices.
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“What are PHRs Good For?” : Presentation at AHRQ Annual Conference September 14, 2009
Ted Eytan, MD
“Attached below are the slides from the presentation I gave yesterday at the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research Annual Conference, entitled “PHR’s What Are They Good For?”
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Twitter could help health official track swine flu
Rebecca Smith, Telegraph.co.uk
“Government scientists have found that collecting information from social networking sites can provide valuable insight into the spread of infectious diseases.
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Open-source software may unify the medical-records realm
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ComputerWorld
“Open-source medical software has been around for over 30 years. Unless you are in healthcare IT, however, chances are you’ve never even heard of it. But that’s poised to change.
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Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement
IOM
The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) concludes that the quality of health care in the United States is suboptimal, and the pace of improvement is slow. Across the core quality measures tracked in the NHQR, patients receive needed care less than 60 percent of the time. Even when measures of quality, such as receipt of appropriate screening for colorectal cancer, show improvement over time, the National Healthcare Disparities Report, for example, shows that disparities persist for specific population groups.
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Participatory Health: Online and Mobile Tools Help Chronically Ill Manage Their Care
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, THINK-Health, CHF
Of the $2.2 trillion in total U.S. health care spending in 2007, 75% ($1.7 trillion) went to care for patients with chronic conditions. Despite this staggering expenditure, there are pervasive problems with the quality of chronic disease care.
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Microsoft wacht op investeerders voor HealthVault
Mario Gibbels, ICTzorg
“In het Westfriesgasthuis is onlangs voor het eerst een koppeling gelegd tussen het platform HealthVault van Microsoft en het ziekenhuisinformatiesysteem CS-EZIS.Net van ChipSoft. Bezoekers van een symposium in het Hoornse ziekenhuis konden zien hoe een Personal Health Record in de praktijk werkt.
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Nictiz: ‘Zelfzorgdossiers voor diabetes worden nog nauwelijks gebruikt’
Mario Gibbels, ICTzorg
“Ondanks dat er steeds meer digitale zelfzorgdossiers voor diabetici op de markt komen, wordt hier nog nauwelijks gebruik van gemaakt.
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IHTSDO and openEHR Begin Collaborative Work Programme
OpenEHR.org
“IHTSDO and the openEHR Foundation are to work together on a harmonisation project where the overall goal is the practical development of effective and sustainable clinical content for the electronic health record. The project will explore how best to support those who wish to use openEHRâ„¢ archetypes and SNOMED CTâ„¢ terminology together within current and future systems to support data capture, complex queries, clinical decision support and reporting.
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Data aggregation and push makes PHRs part of the e-circle
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Children’s Hospital Boston and eClinicalWorks announced that they will aggregate data from patients who are seen at the Hospital’s ambulatory programs and primary care practices at the Hospital’s Pediatric Physicians’ Organization and push it to the patients’ personal health records (PHRs).
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AHRQ: Consumers don’t understand health IT
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“Consumers lack sufficient knowledge about how health IT tools will affect their quality of care, according to a report published last week by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Government Health IT reports.
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Spanish Researchers Design Rooms with Sensors that Help Dependent People
eHealthNews.EU
“Researchers of the Department of Signal Theory, Computer Networks and Communications of the University of Granada, led by José Carlos Segura Luna, are working on a project with researchers of Telefónica I+D to develop a system for locating dependent people in their environment, so that their stay and safety can be guaranteed by using intelligent environments.
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