Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration now has a new interactive Crosswalk Tool available. The Tool helps to retrieve information on privacy security and laws and regulations related to electronic health records and health information exchange.
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Tara Kelly, Time
“Countless medical studies have concluded that playing too many video games can be harmful to one’s health. Now, however, it turns out that one of the more popular video-game consoles on the market, the Xbox 360, could be used to save lives.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Amazingly, a new device has been developed for the blind and visually impaired that uses the brain to see—not the eyes. This device called BrainPort manufactured by Wicab Inc., located in Wisconsin helps to partially restore vision by using the nerves on the tongue to send signals from a camera system to the brain.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Delaware Valley, Penn., is implementing eLearning modules to smooth the transition from a paper to a computerized record environment.
Ken Levitan, the network’s vice president and CIO, said, “A successful implementation of this complexity is dependent on thorough training of our employees and physicians.”
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David St.Clair, Destination CRM
“President Barack Obama has repeatedly advocated electronic health records (EHRs) as a means for reforming health care. Indeed, the economic stimulus package passed earlier this year includes upwards of $20 billion to create EHRs for all Americans, a process the President expects see started in upcoming months.
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“Could a real hope of improving the lives of people with Parkinson’s disease — here, now, in their own homes — lie in a computer game?
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“EHR adoption and finances remain the top challenges facing medical practices, according to a new survey from the Medical Group Management Association.
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Mario Gibbels, ICTzorg
“Patiënten van het Flevoziekenhuis konden al een afspraak met de dokter maken via internet, maar sinds 22 september kunnen ze ook via mijnflevoziekenhuis.nl hun eigen dossier inzien.
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Tom Morton, AllMediaScotland
“The care industry has experienced significant culture changes following the drive to support independent living and provision of care in the community. These changes driven by the government have also placed significant challenges on our work practices.
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EMR Daily News
“Practice Fusion Inc., the fastest growing electronic health record community for physicians in the United States, today announced a partnership with BioReference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI 33.88, -0.11, -0.32%) , the third largest full service laboratory in the country.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“At the request of Neil Calman, I had the opportunity to speak in Albany last week at the New York State AHEC (Area Health Education Center) System Advisory Board meeting on “Health Care Reform & the Health Information Technology Workforce.”
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“Telefónica Innovation and Design has piloted a solution that allows deaf people across Granada and Andalusia to communicate with friends, family and public services using a video phone.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Garth Graham, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Minority Health, says the nation can use heath information technology to reduce care disparities in the poor and minority populations.
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Alice Park, Time
“A new survey of medical-school deans finds that unprofessional conduct on blogs and social-networking sites is increasing among medical students.
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Bob Brewin, NextGov
“The United States is far behind countries that lead the world in using electronic health records, and the nation should borrow some of their policies to increase the adoption rate of e-health records here, according to a report a technology advocacy group released on Wednesday.
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Daniel Castro, ITIF
Greater use of information technology (IT) in health care can help achieve many health care reform goals. Health IT can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health care by reducing costs, improving the quality of care, and increasing access to health care services and information. Health IT also contributes to broader health care goals such as creating a more patient-centric health care system by empowering individuals to better manage their own health care and enabling them to communicate more easily with their health care providers.
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John Moore, Healthcare IT News
“When Carlo Govia first arrived at the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), he found a stodgy, largely manual system with plenty of paper-clogged bottlenecks.
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Josh Goldstein, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“In a model that could be copied by other cities, the three major health systems serving Camden are joining with local doctors to share health records of patients who give their permission, enabling doctors to give more timely and informed care.
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Emma Okonji, All Africa.com
“The need to drive the health sector with technology tools in the area of telemedicine, mhealth and ehealth, was the focus of a two-day conference organised by the Society for Telemedicine and eHealth in Nigeria at the weekend in Lagos.
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Rohit Bhargava, Fresh Influence
“Every once in a while a new report or news story surfaces about a new social network targeted at doctors and physicians, or a study comes out about the growing use of the web by health care professionals and physicians are mentioned in passing.
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