Jessica Bair, Central Penn Business Journal
“Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault are among initiatives directed at making personal health records more accessible to individuals and their medical care providers.
[ More ]
Fred Schulte, Huffington Post
“Hoping to provide the backbone for a grand plan to put the nation’s medical records online, federal officials have been quietly retooling an obscure government data-sharing service into a robust new Health Internet.
[ More ]
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“A coalition of electronic health records vendors is urging the HIT Standards Committee to focus its efforts on achieving implementation of data standards that the committee already has recommended to federal officials, rather than reopening decisions already made.
[ More ]
“One of the biggest challenges for linking together different health information systems is the inconsistency in referring to a given individual – be that a physician, a patient, or whomever. One system, for example a lab system, may refer to “Patient x” one way (using their own arbitrary internal patient identifier number), while a different system (for example, a hospital) may use a completely different identifier.
[ More ]
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Over the last two days, been attending the Foundation for the NIH’s event, the mHealth Summit.
[ More ]
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Cerner Corp. in October signed on with CDW Healthcare to package its clinical and practice management software with CDW’s hardware. This is the latest pairing in a growing trend of hardware and service providers teaming up with health information technology vendors to sell the idea to physicians that they are buying one seamless product.
[ More ]
ScienceDaily
“Cellular phones — once a luxury used strictly for talking — have taken on many new roles in recent years.
[ More ]
Peter Kruger, theMobileHealthCrowd
“The area of the healthcare market, which a large number of next generation healthcare providers would like to occupy, can be looked on as a heavily defended piece of coastline. The nextgen providers, packed into landing crafts, are pinning their hopes on their wonder weapon – Health 2.0. However halfway up the beach the troops come under heavy fire from three well-armed groups; big pharma, insurers and the medical profession.
[ More ]
Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“There are all sorts of obstacles to moving the nation’s health care system, choking on paper records, into the computer age. The cost and complexity of making the transition are daunting, though the government’s $19 billion in incentives for doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic health records should help.
[ More ]
George Washington University Medical Center, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
In our inaugural report in 2006, Health Information Technology in the United States: The Information Base of Progress, and our subsequent report, Health Information Technology in the United States: Where We Stand, 2008, we detailed the challenges faced by policy-makers working toward the goal of increased adoption of electronic health records. Since that time the role of health information technology in promoting higher quality, more efficient health care has taken a central position in the current health care reform debate. There is broad bipartisan support to speed health information technology (HIT) adoption, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) has made promoting a national interoperable health information system a priority, authorizing significant resources to achieve this goal.
[ More ]
Nick van Terheyden, Accelerating Adoption of Healthcare IT
As with so many services the world is getting flatter (per Thomas Friedman: The World is Flat – A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century) and medical services and in particular medical care is no exception. Everyone must run faster just to stay in place even the health care profession.
[ More ]
Mohamoud S, Byrne C, Samarth A., AHRQ
As part of AHRQ’s mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans, the AHRQ National Resource Center (NRC) for Health IT provides technical assistance and conducts analysis and dissemination of results from project work funded in AHRQ’s health IT portfolio. The NRC team members developed this report summarizing the key challenges noted, solutions identified, and lessons learned by AHRQ funded projects implementing health IT in LTC settings.
[ More ]
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 28 October 2009
“Officials from Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration tested a free personal health record for the state’s 2.6 million Medicaid recipients on Wednesday.
[ More ]
Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider
“We are saying that the crisis does not change the challenge of creating sustainable healthcare,” says Mike Palmer, a project officer in the ICT for Health Unit of the Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General in Brussels.
[ More ]
Renee Moilanen, Long Beach Press-Telegram
“Even before he walks into the exam room, Dr. Michael Nguyen has up-to-the-minute information on his Long Beach patients.
[ More ]
Lee Aase, SMUG
“Yesterday I posted a video in which Lucien Engelen (@zorg20) interviewed me about social media in healthcare, which he shot while I was his guest in the Netherlands earlier this month.
I interviewed Lucien that same day, asking him to tell the story about the mobile phone application for iPhone and Android that he had gotten developed and launched. It’s an augmented reality app that shows where the nearest automated external defibrillator (AED) is located, using the phone’s location awareness. In the case of someone experiencing cardiac arrest, the ideal would be for one person to administer CPR while another bystander uses a smart phone to locate an AED that could shock the heart back into normal rhythm.”
[ More ]
Kim E-H et al, J Med Internet Res, 11(4)
Background:
Electronic personal health records (PHRs) are increasingly recognized and used as a tool to address various challenges stemming from the scattered and incompatible personal health information that exists in the contemporary US health care system. Although activity around PHR development and deployment has increased in recent years, little has been reported regarding the use and utility of PHRs among low-income and/or elderly populations.
[ More ]
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Bill Davenhall, who leads the health and human services marketing team at ESRI, made the case that adding environmental data to patients’ charts — places the patients lived, types of chemicals and particulates found in those locations’ air.
[ More ]
Dietmar Krause, Weblog Medizin IT und Telemedizin
“Ein sehr interessanter Artikel beschäftigt sich mit einer neu erschienenen Studie, bei der versucht wurde, anhand von elektronischen Akten Risikopatienten für häuslichen Kindesmißbrauch zu identifizieren.
[ More ]
Julie M. Donnelly, Boston Business Journal
“Dr. Neil Meehan’s computer tells him there are three patients in the waiting room of Lawrence General Hospital’s emergency room, two in registration and one in triage with a nurse.
[ More ]
