Alan Brookstone, CanadianEMR
“One feature of Twitter that I find particularly useful is the ability to identify lists of individuals with similar interests and review information that they have identified. It is like having an army of researchers at one’s fingertips.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“As more healthcare organizations move to EHRs, systems will start to fill up with terabytes upon terabytes of health data. Individual records will grow unbelievably long.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Remember the news about an EMR outage at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt., from August? A new, $57 million installation was rendered useless for hours following a power loss and subsequent failure of battery backups. Fortunately, the health system had a plan in place to revert to paper records during the unscheduled downtime.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Dell has introduced a mobile, virtual computing offering for healthcare providers, allowing clinicians single sign-on and session roaming capabilities on any device for applications they’re authorized to use within a facility.
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amednews
“Patients in the United States wait less time to see primary care and specialty physicians than do patients in 10 other countries, but they have more difficulty paying for prescription drugs and health care.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Mobile health monitoring is among the top 10 consumer mobile applications for 2012 identified by Gartner as likely to have an impact on consumers and industry players.
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theMobileHealthCrowd
“Patients who have chronic wounds and may be immobilized can now receive treatment in their homes by experienced clinicians who collaborate remotely with certified wound care specialists miles away.
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MTB Europe
“Mobile technology is helping patients with acute diabetes manage their illness more effectively so that long-term complications associated with the illness can be treated earlier.
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Halifax News Net
“The first system in Canada to provide paramedics with instant access to MedicAlert health records has been successfully launched in Nova Scotia. Within hours of the system going live, a paramedic in Halifax accessed potentially life-saving information en route to the hospital with a patient.
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Dr. Dipak Kalra, UCL
A very interesting presentation overview (slides) on semantic interoperability at the EC/epSOS Semantic Interoperability Workshop.
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Wes Rishel, Gartner
“It is likely not a coincidence that David and I independently posted thoughts on the NHIN last night. The ONC has the HIT Policy Committee looking into it and this is generating interest the HIT blogging circles.
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Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
‘A small hospital in Maine is among the top healthcare providers for adoption of electronic medical records, according to an organization that studies healthcare IT.
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CNNMoney
“Helping set the standard for interoperability between medical devices and electronic health records (EHRs), Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center (OLOL) has successfully tested and implemented auto programming between infusion pumps and a bar-code point-of-care system throughout its facility.
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Wes Rishel, Gartner
“Believe it or not, this is about the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and maybe the Health Internet, whatever that turns out to be. But I’ll get back to that.
As discussed in Healthcare 2.0: Better Tweetment? I am on a mission to find concrete value propositions for Health 2.0. By this I mean not the “Wiffle Bat of hope” statements like “the Web changes everything” but the Louisville Slugger statements such as “modified primary care delivery models for self-pay professionals” or “Twittering from the operating room as a marketing tool.” Do I think that the hits that I identify will be the be the game changers? Of course not. Any day, in any park, the home runs may come from any batter. But if we swing at every pitch, the odds of getting on base go down.”
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Wes Rishel, Gartner, 18 November 2009
Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“As I travel the world meeting with public health officials, healthcare executives and providers, a common theme is the concern about aging populations and the growing incidence of chronic disease.
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EMR Daily News
“Patient Access Solutions, Inc., an emerging provider of technologies that provide the healthcare industry a graceful migration to Electronic Medical Records (EMR), today announced the integration of its products via a new Electronic Medical Records (EMR) platform that will soon be announced.
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HealthTechnica
“While interesting, talking about new medical technology can be detailed, technical and heavy going. So how do you make the latest in 3D imaging catchy and easy to understand for media and their audience? The trick is to personalise it and let those that benefit from the technology first hand (eg, surgeons and patients) explain it in their own words as this interview with a pioneering surgeon on Sky News demonstrates.”
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“The UK’s National Health Service plans to leverage IOCOM technology in its East of England telemedicine project to improve care for stroke patients.
Video conferencing technology from IOCOM, based in Chicago, will be used to give stroke patients round-the-clock access to expert stroke physicians around England.
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“The National Library of Medicine has published a draft map linking content from SNOMED Clinical Terms to ICD-9-CM billing codes, as a precursor to the development of similar maps.
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eHealthServer
“Intel Corporation announced UK availability of the Intel® Reader, a mobile handheld device designed to increase independence for people who have trouble reading standard print. In the UK, there are an estimated six million people with dyslexia or other specific learning difficulties and two million people with visual impairments such as partial sightedness or blindness, for whom reading printed words is difficult or impossible.
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