Fiona Isaacson, The Peterborough Examiner
“The interim head of eHealth Ontario was in Peterborough yesterday to see how local family doctors are using electronic medical health records to determine which of their patients fall into high priority groups for the H1N1 vaccine.
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Brian Robinson, Healthcare IT News
“Florida will launch in early December the first stage of a program that will eventually allow all 2.6 million Medicaid patients in the state to have their own Web-based personal health record, and let physicians see other providers’ claims data.
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phil baumann online
“In the last 18 or so months since I blogged about health care and social media from a nurse’s perspective, I’ve seen a jump in interest in how we can mashup healthcare and the Web. Every new territory needs its leaders. One such leader is my friend Dana Lewis who founded a Twitter chat focused on social media in health care communications.
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Lisa Emrich, MultipleSclerosisCentral.com
“I’m looking for your thoughts and opinions on a matter which may directly impact us as patients and the manner in which we get information.Â
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Kelly Bothum, Delaware Online
“Hospitals and health care organizations have long relied on press releases, advertising campaigns and traditional media outlets to get the word out about their activities and promotions.
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“The King of the Cats has just acknowledged that indeed cats and dogs should co-exist peacefully.
Dr. John Halamka — Vice Chair of the HIT Standards Committee of the ONC and one of the most vocal and influential figures in health IT — writes a blog post this morning entitled “The Genius of AND”.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Recently in Washington, an important political figure asked me why I had the reputation of resisting change.
Since I’ve spent my life catalyzing change and embracing the latest technology, I found this a very strange statement.
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Silja, Whydotpharma
“There appears to be a need to educate the commission and the 20 ministers involved on the value of patient information and the subsequent empowerment. The review that led to the “pharma package” proposal in the first place clearly pointed out that bad information leads to bad health.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Health IT has attracted tremendous attention this year— specifically the use and adoption of electronic health record (”EHR”) systems as an effort to digitize medical information. For the first time ever, the US is developing a national health IT policy, derived from overarching health policy priorities and care goals, and fleshed out by “meaningful use” objectives and measures.
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John Halamka, The Health Care Blog
“Recently, clinicians have asked me “why should I implement my organization’s preferred EHR when I’ve found a less expensive vendor that promises meaningful use?”
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Chad Berndtson, ChannelWeb
“Intel on Tuesday debuted the Intel Reader, a mobile device that converts printed text to digital text and reads it aloud to the user.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Direct aims to shift a ‘substantial amount’ of its work from the telephone to the web next year, its chief executive has revealed.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“ISoft executive chairman and chief executive Gary Cohen has announced that a Lorenzo Primary Care will be launched next year.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Marshfield Clinic, a multi-specialty physician practice with 45 locations across Wisconsin, has deployed technology to address the research database and computation needs of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The Sensium Life Pebble, a new wireless vital signs monitor, is being made available to the European Union and all other countries that have adopted the CE standard for certified medical devices.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Walgreens officials say the national pharmacy chain’s electronic prescriptions reached the 4 million mark in October – a 185-percent increase over October, 2008.
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Erica Naone, Technology Review
“Manufacturers have started adding wireless capabilities to many implantable medical devices, including pacemakers and cardioverter defibrillators.
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Hein Bosman, ICTzorg
“Vandaag buigt de ledenraad van de LHV zich over het principeakkoord het landelijk EPD. Lode Wigersma zei op het ICTzorg congres van afgelopen donderdag te verwachten dat de uitrol van het EPD nog zeker vijf jaar duurt.
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“The SuiteMed Electronic Health Record System (PMS/EHR) effectively addresses the need to better manage healthcare costs, the quality of patient care and the increasing difficulty of Physicians meeting the rapidly growing paperwork requirements of an expanding medical delivery system.
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“A man walks into a hospital urology department for a consultation on prostate cancer screening. The man, an executive type, makes it clear that he will only meet with the department chairman. After 30 minutes, he emerges from the chairman’s office; it is clear that the meeting has not gone well.
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