J.D. Kleinke, The Health Care Blog
“So it’s the morning after the big Health 2.0 bash and the hangover is awful. My head is awash with flashing screens of medical alerts, rainbow-colored demos of virtual patients flitting from one personal health app to the next, and a blur of snappy, almost sneering answers to the same old questions about user adoption, ROI, and business models.
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Video excerpts from the San Francisco Health 2.0 Conference are now available.
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat
“Despite rabid zeal and rapid growth in their industry, even true believers predict we’re still several years away from bringing electronic health records into the majority of the nation’s doctors’ offices.
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Dan West, Communicating with Health Data
“With all the recent media attention on health plan-related incompetencies, it was refreshing to hear from a few health insurance companies taking advantage of modern technology to better serve their customers. Health 2.0 can be an important method by which to educate members and encourage the proper and effective use of their health benefits.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“While dozens of media outlets picked up on a Kaiser Permanente-led study, published in the American Journal of Managed Care, about how a “bundle” of two low-cost medications could prevent heart attacks, nearly every report I saw missed out on one major detail of the report: The researchers would never have found a link without the help of EMRs and predictive modeling technology.
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Jaan Sidorov, Disease Management Care Blog
“The Disease Management Care Blog is guilty of not paying that much attention to the flow of news about information internet techie killer ap stuff. It’s hard to keep it all straight, much of it seems either impermanent or futuristic, plus the 2.0 jargon is opaque. But when the New York Times Business Section and the Wall Street Journal Health Blog both mention a new healthcare computer thingy, the DMCB perks up.
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Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“I am not saying that we should let down out guard or even think about abandoning HIPAA. There are too many people feeding at the HIPAA trough — to do so would postpone our economic recovery for at least another year.
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Cleveland.com
“Wondering if swine flu’s bad enough to require a doctor’s attention? An interactive Web site may help you decide, using the same type of triage calculations that doctors at Emory University use.
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Medical News Today
“Researchers from Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute, with its world-renowned medical informatics research group and regional health information exchange, have been awarded a $4.8 million grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, one of only four such centers in the nation.
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Bob Violino, Internet Evolution
“While politicians in Washington discuss healthcare reform, more companies are providing their employees with access to electronic health records (EHRs). Organizations are looking for ways to reduce healthcare costs and inefficiencies, and electronic records are seen as a way to help achieve those goals.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Google Health is introducing telehealth services to its platform through a partnership with Boca Raton, Fla.-based MDLiveCare.
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“Nearly 7 million Europeans and 5 million North Americans are affected by chronic heart failure, a progressive and disabling syndrome, according to background information in the article. Hospitalisation for chronic heart failure for older patients has increased and occurs in 2 percent to 3 percent of patients over age 85 every year.
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Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“This is the next step forward with using Windows Tags through RazCode to input information with your cell phone. Sean Nolan was kind enough to point me in their direction today. They provide a secure gateway so in order to use this service, you need a provider or perhaps an insurance company that is a subscriber to their service.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released a draft Consumer Preferences Requirements Document for public comment.
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Bernard Courtois, The Star
“Information and communications technology has, in a remarkably short period of time, utterly transformed virtually every dimension of modern life.
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Michael Yuan, VentureBeat
“With the Health 2.0 conference taking place in San Francisco this week and President Obama’s bruised but not yet beaten healthcare reform bill still awaiting its fate on Capitol Hill, it’s a good time to look at how tech startups in the health sector could change the way the US does healthcare.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
The fall edition of the Health 2.0 Conference is behind us. And, as usual, I have not been there. You can find a summary of blogposts about the San Francisco edition on the ICMCC News Page.
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An overview of blogposts about the 2nd day of the Health 2.0 Conference.
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Kaiser Health News
“Electronic medical records could improve how care is delivered and financed, but too few doctors and hospitals use it now, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told attendees at the Cerner Health Conference in Kansas City Tuesday, the Kansas City Star reports. Only 10 percent of hospitals and 20 percent of physicians’ offices use the technology. “We have a very long way to go in a very short time,” she said (Bavley, 10/6).
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Robert Connely, The HIE Blog
“As I spent time in Washington, D.C., several weeks ago, it was clear that much of the focus in the healthcare IT industry has settled on the secondary use of health data.
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