Practice Fusion Adds Free PHR
John, EMR and EHR
“There’s no doubt that Practice Fusion has been making a big splash in the world of EMR. They were the first EMR company that I’d seen that was pioneering the “free” ad based EMR on the web.
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Clearing m-health hurdles
Lezette Engelbrecht, IT Web
“The demand for ICT-assisted healthcare solutions like mobile health (m-health) is growing exponentially in developing countries due to the lack of suitably qualified doctors and specialists, says Yashik Singh, lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s department of tele-health.
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New PHR Lets Patients See What Their Doctor Sees
Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“In 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen stumbled upon an image that had been created when X-rays passed through his wife’s hand and then exposed a photographic plate. The image revealed the bones and soft tissue of her hand in exquisite detail. No one had even dreamed this was possible.
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Gecko Systems Elder Care Robot Trials Begun
CNNMoney
“The elderly frequently endure loneliness and/or loss of independence when living in nursing homes or other assisted living facilities. This new type of remote medical monitoring system, a CareBot, will postpone, if not eliminate that trauma to them. Their families can now better manage the difficult decisions regarding the independence they allow their now dependent parent while minimizing the risk the adult caregiver is willing to assume for a prudent level of independence for their now reliant parent.
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Registration in the Palm of Your Hand
PRNewswire
“When patients were admitted to the new El Camino Hospital in Mountain View for the first time on Monday, November 16, the registration process included something most people associate with sci-fi thrillers — a cutting edge biometric registration system that “reads” patients’ identities by scanning the unique vein structures in their palms.
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Older people would benefit greatly from free telecare
Stephen Burke, Guardian.co.uk
‘Today’s Queen’s Speech trails a social care bill. The new legislation will implement the prime minister’s recent party conference pledge of free personal care for those older people with the greatest needs.
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Next-Generation digital telecare solutions launched to improve home care
Publictechnology.net
“Tunstall Healthcare has launched its range of next-generation, digital-ready telecare solutions at this year’s TSA National Telecare and Telehealth Conference.
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New Report Just Published Telemedicine – A Global Update of Market Trends & Opportunities
Live-PR
“Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Pharmaceutical industry is available in its catalogue.
Telemedicine, offering quality services with significant cost savings, has given a new dimension to the healthcare sector.
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Riding the Google Wave
Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“I’m having some great ‘robust’ discussions on #GoogleWave. I’m now able to finish @ianmcnicoll’s sentences for him… in person & online;-)”
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“I have a love/hate relationship with #GoogleWave. Getting sick of the “Everything’s shiny, Cap’n.” message, when clearly everything is NOT”.
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Older E-Patients Crave Information, Not Friendship from Health Organizations Communicating Via Social Media
Fard Johnmar, Walking the Path
“Late last month, I published an analysis focusing on whether Baby Boomers are using social technologies. I looked at this issue because some have argued that Boomers are shying away from social media.
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Why Do Some Hospitals Successfully Implement EHRs and Others Fail?
Carrie Vaughan, HealthLeaders Media
“There are pieces of advice I hear repeatedly when talking with technology executives about implementing electronic health records and why some organizations are successful whereas others struggle.
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The Politics of Health Care
Celwyn C. Evans, Advance HealthcarePOV
“With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the focus of debate has fallen squarely on the challenge of defining “meaningful use” of an electronic health record (EHR). Maybe it’s time to turn our attention to actually achieving meaningful use.
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The ZigBee Alliance and the American Telemedicine Association to Collaborate on Advancing Use of Telehealth Solutions
redOrbit
“The ZigBee® Alliance and the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) will educate both health care professionals and consumers on benefits of telecommunications technologies as part of a new liaison agreement announced today. The groups will focus on the many capabilities of ZigBee Health Care, an open standard for secure monitoring and management of noncritical, low-acuity health care and wellness services.
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Blog post: Grateful
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“From the very first days of ICMCC I have stressed the importance of the delivery of information.
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The virtual doctor visit
Elizabeth G. Olson, The Washington Post
“Every morning at 10 a.m. sharp, Juanita Wood, 87, taps “okay” on a screen to start up a device that takes her blood pressure and transmits the information to her medical clinic. At 10:30 a.m., her husband, Arthur, 91, touch-starts his own device, neatly lined up next to hers. The machine calculates his blood pressure and weight and sends them off, along with a blood sugar count that he enters by hand.
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De trage voortgang van het landelijk EPD
“Het wil tot nu toe nog niet zo vlotten met de invoering van het landelijk EPD.
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See your doctor Face-to-Facebook
Michael, Ideaworks Newsdesk
“Clinicians are taking to social media in a big way. So says the Miami Herald which reports on a number of surgeries using both Facebook and Twitter to keep patients and their families up to date on treatments and procedures.
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How will my EHR report Meaningful Use data?
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has developed criteria for Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). An HHS-certified EHR (and remember, there are no current HHS-certified EHRs, since that process is yet to be finalized), when used in a “meaningful” way, will allow clinicians to access stimulus money from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS), as per the ARRA HITECH section’s provisions.
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Electronic Heath Records (EHR), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), and Social Security Numbers (SSN)
Marcia Gulesian, The Information Technology Forum
“Creating a unique patient identification number for every person in the United States would help reduce medical errors, simplify the use of electronic medical records, increase overall efficiency, and protect patient privacy, according to a recent RAND Corp. study.
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Health Information Technology Beyond U.S. Borders
Nicolel, EMR Blog
“The impact of ARRA and the HITECH Act has created a flurry of activity around EHR adoption in the U.S. However, the benefits of EHR technology could extend well beyond this country’s borders, having a significant global impact.
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