Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“The Veterans Affairs Department will begin exchanging patient medical records this month with Kaiser Permanente as part of a demonstration of large-scale health data exchange, agency officials announced.
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Anthony Niehaus, KevinMD
“As part of the 2009 HITECH Act, a national health information technology infrastructure (NHITI) is required for access and use of electronic health records resulting in a more “effective marketplace, greater competition… [and] increased consumer choice (HITECH Act, Section 3001(b)).”
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews
“The Cleveland Clinic is backing a startup company that has built a search engine for electronic databases that would allow research using de-identified patient data.
A newly formed company called Explorys is commercializing the patient database search system Cleveland Clinic developed.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Long before ARRA, more than five years ago, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center began a $50 million electronic medical record initiative. This past summer, UCSF reportedly wrote off a third of that cost and scrapped its contract with the EMR vendor.
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ICTzorg
“Wat zijn de effecten van online informatie op maat? Daar ging de scriptie over die de scriptieprijs online hulp 2009 heeft gewonnen.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Radiologists can accurately diagnose acute appendicitis from a remote location with a mobile phone equipped with special software, according to a study presented Monday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews
“Many people are banking on electronic medical records to help improve patient safety and quality. But medical liability insurers aren’t sure that’s happening.
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Mark Caulfield, HSJ
“As the repository for vital patient information, IT systems are at the heart of rethinking services in the post-Darzi era.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The Denver Health and Hospital Authority, a 500-bed safety net facility, is well on its way to becoming an all-digital healthcare environment.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Portage Health, a multi-site provider serving Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has launched a new HIT solution that includes an electronic medical record.
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Jilian Mincer, WSJ
“Medical identity theft is on the rise and expected to worsen.
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Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTconsequences
“I have collected all the presentations in the same post to summarise the information. Thank you very much indeed to all the participants for these inspiring and wonderful days.
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R. Vaughn, The Orthopedic Posterous
“As we continue to see EHR hailed as the mechanism by which American health care will be transformed from an inefficient, anachronistic cottage industry into a sophisticated, statistically relevant expression of cutting edge, evidence based perfection we must resolve the cognitive dissonance that follows from comparing the Brent James disciples’ argument that the EHRs should facilitate and amplify the innate desire of clinicians to do good to the actual EHR adoption and failure rate.
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Michael Painter, The Health Care Blog
“Last week a new article from The American Journal of Medicine entitled, “Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study” by Himmelstein, et al. appeared in my Twitter stream. In fact, Brian Ahier (@ahier), whom I and about 3300 other tweeps like me follow, sent me a DM asking for thoughts.
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RedOrbit
“Uploadable USB pedometers may be new, but they’re already seeing prime time in wellness. A combination of advanced accelerometer functionality and automated data upload are solving a long term concern over the accuracy of self-reported data.
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Peter Müller, Stiftung Gesundheit Blog
“Wenn eine Debatte erstmal hinreichend emotional aufgeladen ist, dann darf man bitteschön kein von Weisheit durchtränktes Resultat erwarten. Derart aufgeladen ist ohne Zweifel die Diskussion um Telemedizin.
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“The digital exchange of health information (often called electronic health records or EHRs) is essential to transforming Canada’s health-care system. Unfortunately, it appears that governments may be quietly re-examining their commitment to creating EHRs as they look for ways to reduce public spending in the wake of large, recession-fuelled deficits. Our advice is that we must continue to move forward.
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Chuckwebster, Electronic Health Record Workflow Management Systems
“Last week I posted 12 quotes, three from pediatrics and primary care sources, five from computing sources, and four from me or the High-Usability EncounterPRO Pediatric EMR Workflow System website. What was my purpose?
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EMR Daily News
“Three of the largest Front Range health care organizations are taking an unprecedented leap forward in health care reform by improving care for more than a million Coloradans with an interconnected electronic patient record exchange system.
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EMR Daily News
“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente today announced an exciting program designed to improve care and services to our Nation’s heroes.
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