Signaal
“Het Westfriesgasthuis nam al in 2006 het besluit tot het invoeren van een ziekenhuisbreed EPD. De papieren dossiers waren goed op orde – ‘ze waren bijvoorbeeld niet voortdurend zoek, en dat is bepaald geen vanzelfsprekendheid,’ aldus Keuzenkamp. ‘De gegevens op papier waren dus altijd beschikbaar en compleet.’
Signaal
“Producten op het gebied van zorgICT, meent SERvoorzitter Alexander Rinnooy Kan, worden soms teveel vanuit de aanbodkant ontwikkeld.
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Arie Nieuwenhuijzen Kruseman, Signaal
“Als KNMG pleiten we voor een gefaseerde invoering van de verschillende onderdelen van het landelijk EPD. Het ene systeem is nu eenmaal verder ontwikkeld dan het andere, en bovendien verschilt de situatie per regio.
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“La Generalitat Valenciana, a lanzado el servicio online Sanitat 24 que permite a los ciudadanos de la Comunitat acceder a través del móvil o de internet a su propia historia clínica electrónica o pedir consulta con su médico de cabecera utilizando mensajes SMS.
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Steve Downs and John Lumpkin, The Health Care Blog
“Recently, Steve posted about the idea, floated by Ken Mandl and Zak Kohane, that EHRs (or health IT more broadly) could move to a model of competitive, substitutable applications running off a platform that would provide secure medical record storage.
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Steve Lohr, The New York Times
The nation’s drive toward computerized medical records is getting a push from big hospitals, which hope not only to improve patient care but to gain an edge on competitors.
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“A Google alert popped up today, saying that a participatory physician in India had cited this blog. Don’t we love it when social media let empowering information spread! It’s exactly what our founder “Doc Tom” predicted with his now-famous 1995 triangle slides: the internet gives us access to information and to each other, which puts a whole lot of power in hands where it didn’t use to be.
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Pam Belluck, The New York Times
“Some of the 37 other participants further along in the project can differentiate plates from cups, tell grass from sidewalk, sort white socks from dark, distinguish doors and windows, identify large letters of the alphabet, and see where people are, albeit not details about them.
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Rohit Bhargava, Fresh Influence
“Amidst the attention on Twitter and how Pharma brands may be using it, what the FDA is doing with their blog and the rise of internet users finding health information on the web there is one group that has been quietly innovating with using social media without receiving much attention or credit for it.
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Andy Greenberg, Forbes
“No recession, no matter how jarring, can plug the business world’s swelling flood of data. Instead, complex bank mergers, digitized health records and cloud computing are combining to make data warehousing and data integration a practically crash-proof business. Sohaib Abbasi, chief executive of data integration firm Informatica, has led his company through quarter after quarter of growth during the downturn, even as other IT firms were struggling to match the year before.
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Robert van Vliet, Computable
“Waarom kan ik mijn patiëntendossier nog steeds niet via een ziekenhuiswebsite inzien? Is dit de wet op de beveiliging van persoonsgegevens, of neemt het ziekenhuis mij tegen mezelf in bescherming?
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Pim van der Beek, Computable
“De verplichte aansluiting op het elektronisch patiënten dossier (epd) in 2010 is te vroeg. Dat stelt artsenorganisatie KNMG. Volgens voorzitter Arie Nieuwenhuijzen Kruseman voldoen te weinig zorginformatiesystemen aan de eisen voor aansluiting op het landelijk schakelpunt.
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Joe Carlson, Modern Healthcare
“The U.S., which has low rates of adoption of health information technology compared with other industrialized nations, is starting from a disadvantage in most areas that researchers measure to predict health IT adoption, according to a new report.
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Advance
“ReymannGroup, in conjunction with CREDANT Technologies, recently surveyed health care providers nationwide to determine their technological readiness to implement health care changes. The report, “Healthcare: State-of-Readiness for HITECH and EHR (Electronic Health Records),” is based on the survey results.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Indiana University Health Center in Bloomington early this year began testing a free personal health record for students.
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“While the U.S. scrambles to meet the goal of two consecutive administrations delivering a national, interoperable web of electronic health records networks by 2014, other countries have achieved far greater positive results with health IT, a new report says.
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Elyas Bakhtiari, HealthLeaders Media
“I have a confession: My first source of medical care for most non-emergency ailments isn’t my primary care physician, a retail clinic, a physician assistant, or any other provider. It’s the Internet. Before I even schedule an appointment with my doctor, I Google my symptoms to narrow down the list of possible ailments and decide whether I can wait out the problem or treat myself.
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EMR Daily News
“Webahn, Inc. announces the launch of two new iPhone Apps for physicians. Capzule for its online Electronic Medical Records service Capzule.com and Accent, a voice recording application, for its online transcription service OvernightScribe.com.
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Robert Rowley, The Health Care Blog
“The concepts of “security” and “privacy” of medical information (Protected Health Information, or PHI) are closely intertwined. “Security,” as described in the second part of this series, has to do with breaking into medical data (either data at rest, or data in transit) and committing an act of theft.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“Denmark has rolled-out two telehealth pilots it now intends to implement nationally over the next three years.
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