HL7 Version 2.5 Approved as International Standard
Healthcare Informatics
“Health Level Seven (HL7)’s Version 2.5 messaging standard has been endorsed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO, Switzerland).
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Articles
Elektronisch voorschrijven vergroot medicatieveiligheid ziekenhuizen
Janine Budding, Medicalfacts
“Elektronisch voorschrijven vergroot de medicatieveiligheid in ziekenhuizen. Dat blijkt uit het promotieonderzoek van Jasperien van Doormaal, dat werd beloond met de medicatieveiligheidsprijs 2008 van de Nederlandse Vereniging van Ziekenhuisapothekers. Steeds meer ziekenhuizen in Nederland schrijven geneesmiddelen elektronisch voor, in plaats van met de hand.
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Gartner: ggz-instellingen geven jaarlijks 50 miljoen euro uit aan EPD-pakketten
Mario Gibbels, ICTzorg
“Ggz-instellingen geven jaarlijks ongeveer 50 miljoen euro uit aan EPD-paketten. Hiervan gaat een kleine 20 miljoen euro naar de EPD-leveranciers.
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Eindrapport EPD pakketvergelijking GGZ Nederland
Gartner
In opdracht van GGZ Nederland verrichtte het internationale en onafhankelijke adviesbureau Gartner een onderzoek naar acht EPD-oplossingen voor de ggz-markt.
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Webmedx Launches New Data-Mining Solution for Medical Transcription and Speech-Generated Documents
EMR Daily News
“Webmedx, the fourth largest medical transcription service provider in the U.S. and a premier supplier of clinical documentation technology, today announced a new module within their Enterprise(TM) Clinical Documentation Platform, QualityAnalytics(TM).
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2-Way Health Information Exchange To Fight Disease Outbreaks
Medical News Today
“Building upon four decades of research and real world operation of electronic medical records and health information exchange, Regenstrief Institute researchers have developed, tested and are now operating innovative technologies to allow for the bi-directional flow of evidence-based medical information between clinical sources and public health organizations.
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Robots represent the next frontier in patient monitoring
Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“We’re always happy to read something about healthcare reform that talks about actually improving the quality of care or quality of life. In this instance, it’s robotics.
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Wireless health researcher: Mobile connectivity will transform care
Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“We here at Fierce have been saying it for some time: Most of the noise around healthcare reform is related to cost and access, while the innovations that could really fix the system are seemingly ignored.
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How digital NHS services make use of the personal touch
Joel Bailey, HSJ
“Technology is a facilitator to effective service delivery. One of the most common complaints about NHS services is that they take place away from home, but digital tools take healthcare to where patients are rather than vice versa. If a service is available online or can be downloaded, users don’t have to come into the clinic to get information.
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New Tele-Health Care Project to Provide Dental Care to Underserved Communities in California
RedOrbit
“More than four hundred foster-care students within the Twin Rivers Unified School District will be able to receive free dental care thanks to a new telemedicine project created jointly by the California Dental Association Foundation, University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry and the California HealthCare Foundation with start-up funding from Verizon.
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FALLON PATIENTS GO ONLINE FOR MEDICAL RECORDS
Aaron Nicodemus, Worcester Telegram
“My Chart, a new Web-based tool offered by Fallon Clinic, allows patients to access their electronic medical records online.
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Driving blind
Daniel de Vise, The Standard
“A voice rose above the chatter in the University of Maryland parking lot: “Blind man driving!” Twenty blind people took turns piloting a car on this muggy morning, the first public test of technology that might one day overcome barriers to putting the sightless behind the wheel.
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Zakaria and Meyerson: How to Fix Health IT
Sammy Zakaria and David A. Meyerson, The Washington Post
“A cheaper and more effective solution is to adopt a standard electronic record-keeping system and ask that all health information software interface with it. In fact, a proven system already exists. The software is called the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), which the Veterans Affairs Department developed.
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MHealth secures hygiene in hospitals.
Ron Otten, Mobile Wellbeing
“Experts say nearly 2 million hospital-acquired infections occur each year, resulting in about 5,000 deaths and more than 90,000 illnesses in the US. Research shows that simple hand washing by medical staff could cut the number of infections in half.
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Transparency With Patient Data
Brian Ahier, Health IT & Healthcare Reform
“I was disturbed to see some of the comments in the recent story on NPR “Doctors Don’t Agree on Letting Patients See Notes.” The idea that patients should not ordinarily be allowed to see their own chart notes is anathema to me.
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How social media changed my life
Silja Chouquet, whydot pharma
“So how did social media change our life you ask? Social media gave us a diagnosis, a cure and access to treatment. It gave my husband the hope and support he so desparately needed to overcome his phobia.
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Weighing EHR/PHR Links
Howard Anderson, HDM Breaking News
“Provider organizations have to address several critical issues when launching personal health records projects, one consultant says. Among those issues, he says, is whether to enable patients to access a complete electronic health record and export it to a PHR–a step that John Moore, managing partner of Chilmark Research, Cambridge, Mass., advocates.
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Privacy experts debate patient consent
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Privacy experts hold a variety of views on how much control patients should be able to have over their electronic health records.
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Study: e-prescribing prevents errors even if doctors override most alerts
Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Here’s an item sure to bring cheers from vendors, CMIOs and others who believe in the power of health IT to improve care:
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Connecting All Your Docs
Alden Solovy, H&HN
“Hospitals subsidize physicians—employed and independent—to make electronic medical records more dynamic.
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