Victor Battles, Healthcare Offers
“A digital personal health record (PHR) is a computer-based software application that allows you to store a variety of personal health information including illnesses, hospitalizations, encounters (i.e. visits and communications), journal information in between doctor visits, medications, allergies, immunizations, surgeries, lab results, and family history.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Pay-for-Performance (P4P) has been a compensation model increasingly used to reward physicians and healthcare organizations for achieving specific health-quality goals. Medicare (CMS) has developed a set of criteria (PQRI) designed to reward individual physicians and practices who achieve high marks on a set of metrics for Medicare patients (in addition to fee-for-service payments).
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Jaan Sidorov, Disease Management Care Blog
“There is no denying Americans’ fascination with gadgets.
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TelecomEngine Newsdesk
“Digital wireless services provider KORE Telematics, specializing in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, announced today that MedApps telehealth products are now certified for use on the KORE network.
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BBC News
“Medics posting messages on networking websites like Facebook and Twitter are breaching patient confidentiality, a leading journal reveals.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Patients and clinicians who use the upgraded Mayo Clinic Health Manager can access stress, blood pressure and cholesterol trackers as well as other guidance and health information.
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Chip Means, Healthcare IT News
“British health officials believe they may have a new way to leverage existing IT to facilitate portable, secure health data.
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Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“Die Kassenzahnärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KZBV) hält die von den Krankenkassen verkündete Ausgabe von elektronischen Gesundheitskarten ab dem 1. Oktober für nutzlos.
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Don Kemper, Healthwise
Evidence continues to show that overtreatment is a major cause of runaway U.S. health care costs. Our fee-for-service system rewards doctors for doing more procedures and surgeries. Doctors need to protect themselves from lawsuits by doing more diagnostic testing. The two systemic incentives combine for unnecessary testing and procedures that amount to an estimated one-third of total U.S. health care spending.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“A public-private partnership in the Pacific Northwest has chosen 34 mostly small and rural healthcare providers to receive up to $20,000 each to help purchase EMRs and other health IT.
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Alan Goforth, Kansas City Star
“With or without health care reform this year, electronic medical records are picking up steam.
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Editorial, The Washington Times
“President Obama claimed Monday that spending taxpayer money on electronic health care records would save lives and dollars. But the only thing assured is high upfront costs. Establishing an integrated national health information system isn’t as easy or as beneficial as it sounds.
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David Steinhaus, The Washington Post
“As we look to reform the health-care system, it’s easy to lose sight of what is working now — and what could make an immediate impact if expanded and adopted more widely.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“IBM says it launching a telehealth project aimed at improving the independence and quality of life of elderly patients living in Bolzano, Italy, while reducing health costs.
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Raquel Leoncio, Zikkir
“When computers, servers and digital storage devices began to find their way en masse into businesses and homes in the late 1970s and early 80s, industrious users figured out these systems could be linked together into local area networks (LANs) that enabled the rapid exchange of information from machine to machine.
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Healthcare Technology Online
“EDCO announces a partnership to amplify electronic access to patient records at The Ottawa Hospital. The partnership includes the implementation of Solarity technology to quickly digitize paper records along with the installation of EDCO’s electronic health record system, Solcom.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Just about anything you hear coming out of HHS’s ONC office is with regards to digitizing the doctor’s office. This is somewhat understandable as there is some $36B in ARRA funding just waiting for the rules on “meaningful use” (MU) to come out of CMS sometime in December.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
‘Practice Fusion, a provider of a cloud-based electronic health record system available free to physicians, has struck a unique partnership with BioReference Laboratories. Under the deal, in addition to feeding lab data into Practice Fusion e-health records, BioReference will encourage its network of 15,000 doctors to use Practice Fusion’s system.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Health & Human Services Department hopes to exploit electronic heath record systems to reduce the persistent gap in health outcomes that exists between minority communities and the rest of population, an HHS official said today.
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Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“Wie der IT-Dienstleister Netcetera und die Swisscom-Tochter Evita auf dem Kongress eHealthCare bekannt gegeben haben, startet der Rollout der elektronischen Patientenakte Evita in der Region Zentralschweiz.
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