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PRNewswire
“A new neurosurgical procedure may prove helpful for patients with treatment-resistant depression. Bilateral epidural prefrontal cortical stimulation (EpCS) was found generally safe and provided significant improvement of depressive symptoms in a small group of patients, according to lead researcher Ziad Nahas, M.D. at the Medical University of South Carolina. The data are reported in the on-line issue of Biological Psychiatry.
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13 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Brain, Depression, Implants
The Health Care Blog
Around the Web in 60 Seconds: Health 2.0 San Francisco.
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13 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health 2.0, Industry
Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions — 80 percent or more, experts say — are made by individuals instead of medical professionals, whether those choices are about diet and exercise or ways of managing chronic conditions like diabetes.
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13 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Health Information, Search, Web
Paul Levy, Running a Hospital
“The following email message was broadcast last week in a Boston hospital. Of course, you can guess my view of this: Any form of communication (even conversations in the elevator!) can violate important privacy rules, but limiting people’s access to social media in the workplace will mainly inhibit the growth of community and discourage useful information sharing.
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13 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, Social Media
Randall Oates, 13 October
“To use the lowest figure cited, let’s say that approximately twenty percent of hospital EHR installations fail and the system is removed. In these cases it’s likely that the entire investment in hardware, software, implementation costs, lost productivity (and other costs more difficult to measure) is lost.
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13 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Failure
Ron Otten, Mobile Wellbeing
“First came the joystick. Then came the motion-sensing Wii remote. What´s next? Sensors and mobiles are opening up a new world: thought control.
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12 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Brain, mHealth, Neurology
Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Many people living in rural or remote Texas communities know that one of the biggest challenges is to access pediatric health services.
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12 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Children, Rural, Telemedicine
Karen Dearne, AustralianIT
“Google, Microsoft and other new providers will host Australians’ electronic health records as the federal and state governments back away from funding a nationwide scheme.
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12 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tags: phr
EMR Blog
“Electronic prescribing is a replacement of the traditional method used by physicians to manually write down the medications for patient. This application allows health practitioners to electronically send a prescription directly to a pharmacy of patient’s choice.
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12 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, e-prescribing, Medical History
IMIA News
“The latest edition (volume 4, no. 1 – September 2009) of HINow (or Health Informatics Now), the publication of the British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum (BCSHIF) is available to download from the BCS website.
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12 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Nursing Informatics
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Hamilton Community Health Network (HCHN), a 25-physician, six-facility practice serving Flint, MI, will implement an electronic medical record (EMR) system in 2010, thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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12 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Digital Divide
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“When you consider how long it seems to have taken to have SNOMED CT, HL7, openEHR and others to have an impact compared with the standards developed by the W3C (the WWW Consortium) , IETF and OMG there is at least a prima facie case for a change in approach!
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12 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tags: HL7, openEHR, SNOMED, Standards
Jeffrey T Junig, 1888 Press Release
“Receiving treatment for anxiety or depression carries a stigma in our society despite educational efforts by mental health organizations. At the same time, medical practices including psychiatry have become centralized into health ‘systems.’ This centralization provides convenience for patients visiting both their family physician and one or a combination of specialists. But the combination of multiple specialties in one location has significant drawbacks for patients who desire some degree of privacy.
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12 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry
Victoria Thompson, Nursing Times
“Research by a Bournemouth University web professional suggests that social networking website Twitter could be an effective means of delivering improved quality of life to people suffering from long-term conditions.
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12 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Twitter
PRWeb
“Parkinson’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis patients are discovering first-hand that daily exercise with a new virtual reality device, the GaitAid Virtual Walker, has a positive effect on their walking ability, minimizing balance problems and improving quality of life.
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12 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Devices, Digital Homecare, parkinson, Virtual
Health Jockey
“Scientists from Duke University claim that combining home-based blood pressure screening and telephone counseling seems to considerably improve a person’s blood pressure control at a minimum cost.
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11 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Digital Homecare, Hypertension, mHealth
Tom Wilber, Pressconnects
“An effort to streamline and automate patient records is slated to go live in early 2010, after years of development and testing.
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11 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Consent
Brian Ahier, Health IT & Healthcare Reform
“New research from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that it is possible for communication from person to person through the power of thought alone.
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11 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Brain, Brain-Computer Interfacing, Communication
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“So the Fall Health 2.0 2009 conference in San Francisco at the Concourse Exhibition Center is over. The bunting is down, the cocktails are drunk, and everyone can get back to the sanctity of the WiFi enabled office or home.
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11 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: health2.0, Industry
Alensa
“In comparison to last year’s excellent discussion of mHealth applications in the developing world, there was somewhat of a scarcity of discussion around the topic at this year’s Health 2.0. Except for the presentation by SMSMedic (pls follow their Hope Phones call to donate old phones), I didn’t see any other mention of the topic.
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11 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Developing Countries, Health 2.0, mHealth
