Ryan Ricks, EMR Blog
“According to Secretary Sebelius, the CBHA is just one example of how “health information technology and electronic health records (EHR) have helped ensure patients get better care.” She goes on to report that technologies like EHRs “can reduce paperwork, make care more efficient, and let doctors spend more time practicing medicine and less time filling out forms.”
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Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek Healthcare
‘Blue Cross of Northeast Pennsylvania is deploying smartphone apps to 5,000 to 10,000 patients, to help them carry their medical histories with them when going from one doctor to another.
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EMR Blog
“Implementation of an EHR technology at a facility usually begins with deciding on what to do with the old paper records and how they should be transferred into the EHR system.
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Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
“Instead of pens, scribes here use laptops as they trail doctors from bed to bed, taking detailed notes that will form part of each patient’s electronic medical record. Experts say the scribes’ peculiar role — with one foot in 2009 and one in 2000 B.C. — illustrates hospitals’ often bumpy transition from clipboards and closets of paper charts to digital records.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“GE Healthcare has received FDA approval on a device that provides clinicians with integrated data from patient monitoring systems and hospital information systems, such as lab reports, X-rays, and e-medical records.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek
“Two more health insurance companies — Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and the American Postal Workers Union Health Plan — have agreed to provide patient data to Google’s electronic personal health record platform.
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Marketwire
“Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open source healthcare IT solutions, today announced that hospitals that sign a contract before December 31, 2009 to implement the OpenVista open source electronic health record (EHR) are guaranteed to achieve full implementation and meet federal meaningful use standards by January 31, 2011.
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“Of all of the risks regarding electronic health records, the largest is perhaps to privacy and confidentiality, and other civil liberties through the ability of information technology to rapidly duplicate and disseminate massive amounts of data.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
According to a story appearing in MC4’s September newsletter issue of “The Gateway”, LTC T. “Sloane Guy IV, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgeon, found that he was not always doing run-of-the-mill procedures in his specialty. However, as Chief of Clinical Services with the 249th General Hospital in Afghanistan until 2006, he successfully completed all of his procedures but he would have been happy with another specialist or two by his side. He could see the need especially in his case to contact with operating rooms in the U.S. to talk to other specialists and to help him assist with his procedures from afar.
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eHealth Europe
“The EU executive’s decision not to legislate against online pharmacies is a major omission in its plans to fight counterfeit medicines, the politicians responsible for pushing a new law through the European Parliament have said.
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Niraj Sheth, Yukari Iwatani Kane, The Wall Street Journal Health
“The medical waistband is the latest front in the battle among smart-phone makers for the business customer.
Pagers have long reigned in hospitals, where they are prized for their dependability. But with doctors treating more patients and hospitals facing pressure to be more efficient, companies like Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. see an opportunity to peddle their devices.
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Telegraph.co.uk
“Only half of those over the age of 50 have access to the web, leaving 10 million more unconnected.
On the ”wrong side of the digital divide”, they miss out on the social, educational and financial advantages of internet access.
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An overview of blogposts about the first day of the Health 2.0 Conference.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“When Obama Administration Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra started his keynote at today’s Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, he began by mentioning the work that I did when the two of us were at the Advisory Board Company, where I first began experimenting with the concept of information prescriptions.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Connecting for Health is hoping to be given the green light to develop new functionality for HealthSpace, according to the personal health portal’s clinical director.
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insurancenewsnet
“MDLiveCare, an on-demand telehealth company, announced today at the Health2.0 conference in San Francisco a partnership with Google Health. The partnership includes the secure flow of medical data between MDLiveCare and Google Health, an online Personal Health Record (PHR).
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Joseph C. Kvedar, healthspottr
“Within the administration’s health reform agenda, its strategy for modernizing the healthcare system by sponsoring a widespread implementation of EMRs is admirable, and necessary, but also terribly insufficient.
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CMIO
“Routine use of EHRs may improve the quality of care provided in community-based primary care practices more than other common strategies intended to raise the quality of medical care, according to study findings published Oct. 6 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Jennifer Kilian, Barbara Pantuso, Fast Company.com
“Susan’s life is full. That’s a nice way of saying that she is frenetically, overwhelmingly busy–too busy, she sometimes jokes, to be healthy. She has a husband and two small children, a full-time job, and aging parents who rely on her for support. She also has two younger brothers and a community of friends both near and far that she keeps in touch with mostly online.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“A Health and Human Services Department advisory panel is wrestling with the underlying differences between how primary care providers and specialists such as oncologists and cancer treatment centers might use health IT most productively.
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