Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Neighborhood Healthcare, which serves communities in Riverside and San Diego counties, will automate both the clinical and business sides of its health centers for its 115 providers across 11 locations.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The biggest barrier to electronic health record (EHR) adoption has always been the upfront cost of implementing the system and the productivity lost during the learning curve. The rapidly changing healthcare landscape, however, may make cost the reason why physicians adopt health IT. Come again?
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Joseph Shapiro, NPR
“When Americans go looking for information on health, they turn to the Internet as one of their first sources. According to a recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 61 percent of adults say they look online for health information. There’s a term for them: e-patients.
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CNNMoney
“GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. announced today that they are starting limited in home evaluation trials for their first product, a personal companion home care robot, the CareBot(TM). GeckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the emerging Mobile Service Robot (MSR) industry revolutionizing their development and usage with “Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service(TM).”
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Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“The nation is set to begin an ambitious program, backed by $19 billion in government incentives, to accelerate the adoption of computerized patient records in doctors’ offices and hospitals, replacing ink and paper. There is wide agreement that the conversion will bring better care and lower costs, saving the American health care system up to $100 billion a year by some estimates.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“Dirk Stanley wrote this in reply to a post on http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/converting-to-electronic-healt.html
I felt it needs to be heard.
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“An important study just got my attention. Patients and clinicians in different cities were asked questions about concerns and preferences.
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Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“My friends at Medgadget have recently attended the interesting TEDMED 2009 event. I hope I can make the next one.
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Denis Campbell, The Observer
“The NHS is abandoning handwritten files of medical notes, sometimes several inches thick, and finally introducing electronic records of patients’ conditions, medications and allergies.
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John Singleton, Newsobserver
“The push for health care reform is spurring discussion about the industry adopting electronic medical records. Advocates point to the cost savings and efficiency that will occur when the medical industry is brought into the digital age. Critics worry about issues such as security and the expense of new technology.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Personalized medicine brings to mind researchers doing complicated analysis of a single patient’s genetic makeup, and fine-tuning medicine and other treatments to those results. But Duke University Health System is using everyday data from patients’ electronic medical records combined with an analytics tool to personalize its approach to treating patients.
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Emma Schwartz, Huffington Post
“Lobbyists for the health industry are close to a victory over consumer groups in a dispute about when patients should be told their digital medical records have been lost, stolen or mishandled.
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David Donald, Daily Commercial
“A Clermont-based software company is changing the way physicians and hospitals handle patient referrals, switching from a paper to an electronic system.
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ICTzorg
“GGZ Westelijk Noord-Brabant en Mobipro Benelux hebben een koppeling gemaakt tussen de verschillende zorgprogramma’s en de patiëntgegevens in het EPD.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Yesterday, David Blumenthal published a very thoughtful post on the HITECH Act as a foundation for information exchange in which he reflected on his own personal experience as a doctor. That experience included the often frustrating realization that he could not obtain a complete longitudinal record of his patients (customers) due to either (or both) technical or business barriers.
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Cataract Outsourcing
“Large and small medical practices can see a return on their investment for an EMR system as soon as one to one-and-a-half years—provided they have a successful preparation and selection process and know how they intend to use the EMR, experts say.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“David Blumenthal, MD, who leads the government’s effort to transform the nation’s healthcare system from paper to digital, is urging the industry to break down barriers to health data exchange.
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Pulse
“To overcome the grim legacy left by Harold Shipman and restore patients’ trust in our practice, the Haughton Thornley Medical Centres website (www.htmc.co.uk) had to be something different.
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eHealthServer
“Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading supplier of speech solutions, introduces version 7 of its speech recognition platform SpeechMagic and version 2.0 of SpeechMagic Solution Builder, a clinical documentation application for German-speaking countries, Finland and Spain. Nuance made the announcement during its first European healthcare partner meeting in Vienna (November 12-13, 2009).
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Jianggan Li, FutureGov
“Dr Shabbir Syed Abdul runs Surya Hospital Telemedicine Centre, a primary care facility 200 kilometres to Hyderabad, in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh.
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