Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“A recent report from the Children’s Partnership, a nonpartisan advocacy group, says that teleconferences with school children in San Francisco resulted in “significant improvement” in the health of students with asthma, and recommends wider use of the technology.
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“The American Telemedicine Association is teaming up with a Washington, D.C.-area primary-care practice to attempt to prove the value of telemedicine as an employee benefit that can promote worker health and productivity
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG), comprising 200 primary care physicians and 500 specialists in private practices in the San Diego area, and Graybill Medical Group, based in Escondido and one of the largest primary care practices in California, are going to develop a patient management and electronic health record systems.
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Brian Ahier, Health IT & Healthcare Reform
“A team of researchers in chemistry, pharmaceutics, and engineering is developing a long term implantable biosensor that could dramatically change the way of life for millions of people diagnosed with diabetes.
Inside the laboratories of Board of Trustees distinguished professor of pharmaceutics Diane Burgess, chemistry professor Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, and engineering professor Faquir Jain, teams of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are helping develop a miniaturized wireless device that will monitor blood glucose levels for three months or more after being inserted under a patient’s skin.”
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Stobill hospital, a new hospital opened by the NHS Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, is being touted as one of the “most modern and well-equipped” hospitals in Scotland.
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Steve Beller, Curing Healthcare
“The bottom line, imo, is that there is a place for centralized web-based enterprise networks residing in the cloud.
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Business Wire
‘Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D, RI) and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D, TX) have taken the lead in urging their fellow members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to require patient quality improvements as a prerequisite to obtaining federal electronic health record (EHR) stimulus funds.
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Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Primary Care
“The head of the London Programme for IT has admitted that the ‘one size fits all’ approach to deploying Cerner Millennium was a “mistake”.
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Danny Sands, e-patients.net
“For most people, their impetus to be actively engaged in healthcare comes from an experience with serious illness—either their own or a loved one’s. My journey into participatory medicine began during my internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital, a public urban hospital, in the late 1980s.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“HealthConnect, Kaiser Permanente’s electronic health record system, is at the core of a new osteoporosis prevention program that officials say could drop the nation’s hip fracture rate by 25 percent.
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Nictiz
“Paramedici in Nederland hebben de ambitie aan te sluiten op het landelijk elektronisch patiëntendossier (EPD) voor het uitwisselen van zorginhoudelijke gegevens met andere zorgverleners in de keten.
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Nirvi Shah, The Miami Herald
“In the waiting room, the patient’s family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the patient was doing.
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Steve Beller, Trusted.MD
“I’m debating a cloud-computing expert about the use of the cloud for health IT.
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EMR Daily News
“Addressing the burgeoning demand for health information exchange (HIE) to coordinate and better leverage patient information, two health IT industry leaders – Covisint, a subsidiary of Compuware Corporation, and Carefx – have partnered
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EMR Daily News
“Orion Health, a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector, congratulates NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board on the opening of the new Stobhill hospital, which will provide outpatient clinics, day surgery and diagnostic services.
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Tom Chivers, Telegraph.co.uk
“Software being developed by American and Australian scientists will hopefully allow patients simply to cough into their phone, and it will tell them whether they have cold, flu, pneumonia or other respiratory diseases.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Aside from the upfront cost of implementing electronic health records (EHRs), one of the major barriers for adopting health IT cited by physicians is a lack of standards. On Friday, HL7 published a standard for clinical research in an EHR system.
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Anne Eisenberg, The New York Times
“Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive.
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Matthew L. Brown, Worcester Business Journal
“In little more than five years, electronic medical records (EMRs) will be required by the federal government, and if the experience of local health care providers that already use such systems is any indication, the transition is likely to be bumpy.
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Ellen Perlman, Governing
“For years, I’ve been writing about health IT and how its advocates believe it could lead to cheaper and better health care for citizens. Now, I’m writing as one of those citizens.
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