How is Health 2.0 Different in Europe versus the US?
John Sharp, eHealth
“In planning for the Health 2.0 conference in Nijmegen, Netherlands, I am wonder what to expect approaches to Health 2.0.
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Articles
Power to the Patients
Clayton M. Christensen, Jason Hwang, The Atlantic
“While other industries take as their focus such shallow concerns as the making of money, the health care profession prides itself on dealing with matters of life and death. But that’s not the only thing distinguishing health care from other industries: it is also unique in the extent to which it excludes consumers from important decisions.
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Surescripts: Big Boost in E-Prescribing
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Twenty-three percent of office-based physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants now use electronic prescribing software, according to Surescripts, which operates a national e-prescribing network.
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NZs first telehealth pilot likely to improve health outcomes
infonews.co.nz
“The future is looking brighter for people living with long-term health conditions.
This week, Healthcare of New Zealand, a leader and innovator in community health provision, in conjunction with Lake Taupo Primary Health organisation (PHO) will launch the first-ever New Zealand telehealth pilot for 10 clients in the Turangi/Taupo area.
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Quebec the First Province to Use IBM Digital Medical Images Solution
PR-USA.net
“The Agence de la sante et des services sociaux de Montreal has signed a five-year, C$3.6 million deal with Artefact Informatique, the health division of LGS Group Inc., an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company – the first of its kind in Canada – to build a registry for digital medical images based on the Canada-wide Cross-enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) standard.
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Hi-tech future for NHS Scotland
PublicTechnology.net
“Scottish NHS patients could soon see a consultant over webcam and have their symptoms assessed electronically, thanks to the rollout of a new ‘telehealth’ system. It may sound futuristic, but the system is already up and running in some parts of the country.
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Crisis Management 101: How to survive a security breach
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s radiology department may have suffered a potential breach of its electronic medical records involving approximately 114,000 entries for a mammogram study.
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SurgeryPlanet’s telemedicine software to link 1000 hospitals in 44 countries
Nandita Vijay, PharmaBiz
” SurgeryPlanet, a medical facilitation company has developed the eCarePlanet which is a telemedicine online software. It provides both patients and medical professionals an interactive online platform to have direct access to over 1,000 hospitals in 44 countries to schedule appointments, transmit medical files, plan treatment and coordinate arrangements to connect for treatment and billing.
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Slow with the flow: Hospitals lag in joining health info exchanges
Elizabeth Gardner, Crain's Detroit Business
“Imagine a health care system in which every provider knows every relevant detail about a patient — without that patient having to fill out repetitive forms.
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Building a Better Health Data Network
David Twiddy, TechNewsWorld
“Most doctors would love to have instantaneous electronic access to patients’ full medical records, regardless of where they’ve been treated before. However, the effort to build such a system is many years in the making, and it continues to drag on.
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Telemedicine allows for long-distance diagnoses
Ann Geracimos, The Washington Times
“The field of telemedicine has come a long way since a Harvard professor figured out a way to examine patients via television cameras so he wouldn’t have to fight traffic in a long car ride each day.
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The Follow-up Visit
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“This week I had two follow-up appointments from on my trip to ER last Sunday. The first was to the trauma orthopedist at Brigham & Women’s. Upon entering the office, was handed the infamous clipboard with five pages of forms to fill-out, all the usual stuff, most of it just a repeat of the information I provided verbally on Sunday.
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A Bombshell for EMRs in Canada – Classification of EMRs as ‘Medical Devices’
Alan Brookstone, Canadian EMR
‘EMR software that acquires and manipulates data (e.g. lab results – presenting the information as graphs) will require to be ISO certified by August 31, 2010 in order to be sold in Canada. In other words, vendors now have less than one year to reach ISO certification or be in a position where they will by law not be allowed to sell their software.
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Telemedicine – The Wave of the Future
J. Bonasia, The Open Ledger
“The national health care debate could benefit from an unlikely source: wearable wireless sensors.
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Vets Happy with Their “Socialized Medicine”
Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“For the doctor side of things, no threats of malpractice and oh yes, the billing nightmares are gone. There’s no perfect system and the VA has had theirs as well. I post about both, private and government facilities and there’s plenty of shortcomings at all. The VA though is responsible to to government directly though as compared to a private hospital.
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For the record …
Government Health IT
HHS rules on protecting genetic data
The Health and Human Services Department wants to prevent health plans from using or disclosing individuals’ genetic information. HHS proposed changes Oct. 1 to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to prohibit such practices and to clarify that genetic information is protected health data.
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Electronic records create challenges: DNA
David Weisbrot, The Australian
“The remarkable advances in genetic science and technology enabling such questionable activities also hold great benefits in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of serious illnesses.
However, these rapid advances also challenge our capacity to regulate research and clinical practice in the public interest. In particular, we must ensure that we carefully protect human dignity as well as health.
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Survey Highlights Power, Limits of EHR Data
Joseph Goedert, Information Management Online
“More than three-quarters of 732 surveyed executives at provider, payer and pharmaceutical organizations believe secondary use of data from electronic health records will be their organizations’ greatest asset during the next five years.
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Can Microsoft Healthvault Do a Better Job than HL7?
Barry Smith, HL7 Watch
“Part II of the Wolandscat series on “The Crisis in E-Health Standards” continues the argument of Part I, discussed already here, to the effect that software engineers and not (for example) quasi-governmental committees involving members with ‘limited engineering skills’ and utilizing a methodology based on democratic votes, should be the ones engaged in building e-Health standards.
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