eHealthServer
‘The Swedish National Patient Summary solution (known as NPÖ), one of the first of its kind in the world, has received formal acceptance and has been in full production since 1 September, 2009 in Örebro County Council and the Municipality of Örebro.
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eHealthServer
“In a keynote speech at this year’s Nikkei-Philips symposium on “Independent Living and Home healthcare”, Dr. Eric Silfen, Chief Medical Officer, Philips Healthcare, reconfirmed Philips’ commitment to ensuring sound and sustainable healthcare in the future.
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Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“John Moore, who blogs over at Chilmark Research, has become uncomfortable with the term Personal Health Record (PHR) and all that it connotes (see: Time to Kill the PHR Term: Part 1; Time to Kill the PHR Term: Part 2).
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Katherine Hobson, U.S. News
“If you’re like most people, your personal medical record is a multiheaded beast: pieces of information scattered among the offices of multiple physicians, prescription data at a handful of different drugstores, and a manila folder full of receipts and lab reports in an overstuffed file cabinet at home. Now that it’s possible to tame the beast, should you? A host of Web-based personal health records, or PHRs, have been rolled out over the past few years, including offerings from Internet heavyweights Google and Microsoft.
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Eric Dishman, Healthcare@Intel
“I get a lot of electronic newsletters and emails that go right into the virtual trash, but today’s Communications Daily (Volume 29, Number 178) had a headline that made me literally jump for joy: “TELEMEDICINE KEY to meeting president’s goals on health care reform, federal CTO tells FCC workshop.”
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“Quaid appeared on CBS Sunday Morning this week, in an informative piece by David Pogue of the New York Times about EMRs. It’s a bit popularized, as you might expect for network TV, but it’s a good piece, a particularly good introduction for your family and friends who might not “get it” about EMRs yet.”
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Jeff Brandt, Kevin.MD
“There is much confusion about Personal Health Record (PHR) in the market today.
PHRs are divided into three groups; Mobile SmartPhone (mPHR), Cloud Apps, and other devices such as USB and Smartcards .
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“The nursing shortage has decreased time with patients and quality of patient care, according to a recent survey of nurses conducted by a mobile device application vendor.
The 217 nurses across the country who responded to the survey said the shortage has also increased their responsibility, patient load and number of work hours.
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EMR Blog
“Medical practitioners have to manage a large amount of data pertaining to their patients and it is very cumbersome to use paper-based records in health facilities.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“A while back I decided to take a weekend and create an EMR, EHR and HIPAA wiki to go alongside this website. I still think it’s a really good idea that still has yet to be full realized.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“Companies continue to store and sometimes release vast databases of “anonymized” information about users.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“This post is aimed at serving as an interlude to the “public option/death panels” discussions. No matter what healthcare reform bill, if any, is passed this fall, HIT will be part of the program. Four short years ago I was involved in the creation of a comprehensive, some would say monolithic, EMR/Practice Management/Billing system.
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EMR Daily News
“Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open source healthcare IT solutions, today announced the successful implementation of OpenVista, the company’s flagship electronic health record (EHR) at the 11-bed Blue Mountain Hospital in Blanding, Utah.
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Software Advice
“Healthcare is one of the biggest market opportunities for combined voice and data technologies. We think the integration is obvious: combine VoIP with electronic health records (EHRs).
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Dr. Ravi, The Healthcare Transformation
“According to University of Michigan Health Systems, a five-year ongoing study involving 10 large physician practices across the country has so far shown improved quality of care for chronic disease patients from the use of health information technology.
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e-Health Europe
“A new report, which examines how Norwegian hospitals have adopted digital technologies, concludes there is no single formulae for successful implementations.
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Jan Duffy, Silvia C. Piai, Health Industry Insights
In response to the increasing demand for healthcare, coupled with rising costs, in 2007 the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services and the Ministry of Trade and Industry launched a five-year plan to strengthen innovation in the healthcare sector. Particular emphasis would be placed on the need for enhanced innovation in IT and medical technology. Jan Duffy, Research Director, Health Insights said, “Healthcare in general and hospitals in particular are undergoing radical change.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) and the openEHR Foundation will work together to develop clinical content for the electronic health record.
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Britto MT et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 16(5)
Objective:
Patient portals may improve pediatric chronic disease outcomes, but few have been rigorously evaluated for usability by parents. Using scenario-based testing with think-aloud protocols, we evaluated the usability of portals for parents of children with cystic fibrosis, diabetes or arthritis.
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Karen Dearne, AustralianIT
“The Australian Medical Association has called for priority funding for e-health adoption, saying the roll-out should start with e-prescribing and electronic sharing of essential patient information.
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