Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The National Quality Forum has published a standard set of clinical data elements to measure quality performance that electronic health records should be able to capture across all care settings.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Insider
“The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has successfully gone live with its new Cerner Millennium hospital information system.
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Ryan McBride, Xconomy
“Dossia is nearly three years from launching to provide electronic personal health records for major U.S. employers. And though the vision to provide employees of self-insured companies with a secure and portable electronic record of their health information is still alive, so far one company is offering the records to its workers.
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Dave West, HSJ
“Microsoft is “investigating opportunities” for introducing its personal health record platform in the NHS in England.
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Karen Stewartson, Government Technology
“U.S. veterans with traumatic brain injuries who require medical care and constant follow-ups now have an extra resource to make their lives easier. Thanks to the U.S. Army’s Mobile Care (mCare), a telehealth pilot program, veterans with traumatic brain injuries or other serious injuries can be medically monitored by using their cell phones.
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iHealthBeat
“The startup firm Explorys is partnering with the Cleveland Clinic to develop a search engine product that will quickly analyze massive databases of patient records, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
Stephen McHale, CEO of Explorys, said, “We’re using the same technique in use by Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon.” He added that the technology removes patient identifiers from the data to comply with federal privacy laws.”
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iHealthBeat, 12 November 2009
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“Dave deBronkart is a Freedom Fighter. In 2007, Dave battled metastatic cancer and emerged a passionate advocate for leveraging the Web to connect patients with the content and support and inspiration they need to cope with the human consequences of disease.
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“There are many new PHR products that run on USB keys, flash drives, mobile phone devices, PDA’s and more being introduced to the market every day. For a PHR application to be truely beneficial it must be platform independent, have a zero footprint, be accessible , with a permissions structure, be available to the provider, first responder, patient and most important provide encryption or at a minimum a password and ID functionality to protect the contents of the device.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Without EMRs, PHRs and health information exchange, the patient-centered medical home may not be bound to fail, but it certainly is difficult to establish and maintain. “IT is really the key to supporting the doctor/patient relationship and making it more efficient, safer and more effective,” Dr. Paul Grundy, president of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, tells Health Data Management.
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Ernst-Jan Hamel, Webwereld
‘Het aantal zorgaanbieders dat aangesloten is op het landelijk schakelpunt EPD loopt achter. Er is meer tijd nodig om de ict op orde te brengen.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“One of the criteria for meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) is the ability to share data among providers to deliver patient care that has no gaps and promotes collaboration. American Pathology Partners is implementing Halfpenny Technologies’ interoperability platform for an additional reason, which is equally important in this rapidly changing healthcare environment.
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M2M
“Increasingly, doctors and patients do not need to be in the same room for treatment and diagnosis to occur.
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Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb
“The medical industry is showing a lot of interest in telemedicine, but there is a lot of action needed to be taken before that enthusiasm becomes a reality.
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Thomas Beale, OpenEHR
“These pages deal with the key challenge of designing information model (’IM’) structures – mostly represented in openEHR as archetypes – and terminology to be semantically equivalent. Why are they not just the same? For many reasons: archetypes are about what information is useful to gather; terminologies (of the ontological kind, like SNOMED CT, and weakly, ICDx, ICPCx) are about what facts are true of certain categories of phenomena of interest in the domain.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“One of the big controversies early this year was over the role CCHIT was playing, certifying vendors to sell Electronic Health Record (EHR) software.
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CMIO
“A survey of U.S. health IT security professionals has found that 70 percent of them believe that senior healthcare managers do not view privacy and data security as a priority.
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Martin Trussell, Health Plan Innovation Blog
“National health spending is expected to reach $2.5 trillion in 2009, accounting for 17.6 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). This is a market segment that has not been missed by the folks at Microsoft. In fact, today, Microsoft Corp. announced the launch of what they term “a fast-paced online video series designed to showcase how software innovation is improving health around the world.”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“As the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT continues to hone its definition of meaningful use for health IT, it should take note of the results of Kaiser Permanente’s osteoporosis prevention program.
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Stephen Strauss, CBC News
“I would like to tell you that after some months of talking to doctors and researchers I understand what the future of electronic medical records will be. But I can’t.
Indeed, it is possible that when all is said and done, your family doctor may look back at the age of dusty, hard-to-read paper files in a steel filing cabinet and say: “golden age.”
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HDM Breaking News
“The concept of the “medical home” has been kicking around since the 1960s, but how best to define the model for primary care is still the subject of intense debate. No matter how they precisely describe the model, however, many proponents say that information technology is vital to this patient-centered approach to care.
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