Mobile phones to help manage diabetes
SkyNews.com.au
“Diabetes sufferers will now be able to monitor their blood glucose levels using their mobile phone.
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Balancing privacy and access to computerized patient records
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“One of the biggest challenges, if not the biggest challenge, of EMRs and EHRs is ensuring that the data is secure and patient privacy honored. There will always be a camp that thinks EMRs and EHRs can never be secured and we ought not use them. That’s not the reality today, so we as an industry and a society need to keep the discussion going on how we can trust electronic patient data.
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iPath in Moldova
Telemedicina în Moldova
“Pe data de 10 Decembrie 2009, in incinta Institutului de Cercetări Ştiinţifice în domeniul Ocrotirii Sanatatii Mamei si Copilului a luat loc workshop-ul telemedical si prezentarea retelei telemedicale in domeniul neonatologiei.
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Why Programming Microchoice and Microcontrol into the Healthcare System Will Lead to the Equivalent of the Microprocessing Revolution
Jen S McCabe, Health Management Rx
“Yesterday at TEDxSV Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired Magazine and author of The Decision Tree, talked about a concept where individual decision-making will become paramount in health.
For the past year, I’ve been working on a concept that explains how we might harness individual decision-making choices, and the control someone has over them (real AND perceived). I realized as I looked back through emails and blog posts that I’ve failed to clearly define this so others can get to work using it.
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Health 2.0 in Europe: Couldn’t? Wouldn’t? Does!
Denise Silber, The Health Care Blog
“They said it couldn’t happen in Europe, that social media and online tools wouldn’t catch on, because the healthcare context was soooo different from the US.
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E-Prescriptions might be just what the doctor ordered
Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News - Priming the Pump
“While there has been plenty of talk about the recent Harvard study which found no overall cost reduction among hospitals that have invested heavily in health information technology (HIT), healthcare stakeholders looking to justify continued IT investment may want to consider the progress being made with the increased use of ePrescriptions.
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Visions of HIEs keep shifting
Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News - Priming the Pump
“Roughly speaking, health information exchanges (HIEs) constitute about half of the vision policymakers entertain of a nation of 300 million residents, each of whose medical history is digitized in the form of electronic medical records and accessible via HIEs to physicians and patients alike no matter where they might be in the country.
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EHR Systems Offer Protection to Valued Medical Data
Helen Walker, Loans, Mortgage, Insurance and Grant Information Portal
“The universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and the medical management software that incorporates them continues to be a hot topic for debate. The advantages of such technology seem obvious and can now be backed with data: reduction of medical errors, increased efficiency, and improved billing accuracy are just a few benefits.
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Amendment would stop marketing Rx data-mining
Jean DerGurahian, Modern Healthcare
“An amendment proposed by Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) would prohibit drug companies from mining prescription information for marketing purposes.
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What makes telehealth work?
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Jeff Lowe has as much experience with remote diagnostics as anyone in America.
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Upcoming HIPAA changes catching some unaware
Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews
“Some hospitals and others that will be impacted by changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act don’t know that rule changes are set to go into effect in 2010, a recent survey found.
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EMR versus PHR
Gene, AmericanGenes
“Health care in the world is changing and America is leading the change. At the heart of the transformation are the two écoles of health care records; electronic medical records (EMR) and Public Health Records (PHR).
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Why open source may win the electronic health record market
Dana Blankenhorn, SmartPlanet
“Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the trend of the day.
Starting with its stimulus package, the Obama Administration has been pushing EHRs as the solution to all that ails health care.
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Health Care’s ‘Radical Improver’
Joseph Rago, The Wall Street Journal
“‘It’s a little bit like talking to a young prince,” says Jonathan Bush, chairman and CEO of Athenahealth, a major player in information technology services for physicians, of his recent visits to Capitol Hill. “‘So—tell me about this market thing that your people use,’” he says, mimicking the political royalty with a grin and extending his forearm. “‘Wait: I must catch my falcon!’”
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White Paper: Electronic Health Record Workflow Management Systems: The Next Step in EHR Evolution
Chuck Webster, Electronic Health Record Workflow Management Systems
“Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are becoming more than just electronic patient documentation systems; they are evolving into tools that assist physicians in managing the patient care tasks they perform for major types of patients they see. These systems allow providers to analyze, manage and optimize the work that has to be performed, as well as to direct and to delegate it to others. EHRs based on a Workflow Management System (WfMS) accomplish this by offering a way for the user to customize workflow to practice specialty, to local clinical and administrative processes and to user preferences.
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ICMCC Website is back online
Lodewijk Bos
I’m happy to announce that we have succeeded in transferring the ICMCC website to a new server. Please let us know when you come across any anomalies on the site. This site being quite vast we might easily have overlooked some details.
I would like to express my gratitude to the support people of wpwebhost, who did a fantastic job.
Iowa Health System Launches First Statewide Electronic Prescribing System
Cataract Outsourcing
“Iowa Health System, the largest integrated health system in the state, and Allscripts have launched a program to convert a majority of Iowa’s physicians from paper prescriptions to electronic ones in order to cut down on costly medical errors, according to an Iowa Health System news release.
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Missouri hospital saves lives with virtual ICU technology
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“St. Mary’s Health Center, an SSM Health Care facility in Jefferson City, Mo., reports success with the use of a virtual ICU program, used in conjunction with its in-house program.
At the Institute for Healthcare Improvement National Forum, Dec. 9-12 in Orlando, Fla., executives from St. Mary’s announced results of its virtual use of ICU technology to improve mortality rates, lengths of stay and quality measures.
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It’s what you do next…..with your EMR
Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“Yesterday, I had the honor of delivering a luncheon keynote address at the LifeScience Alley annual conference and exhibition in Minneapolis. Despite the major snowstorm that swept the Midwest this week, more than 1200 people showed up for this annual gathering of movers and shakes in the life sciences industries.
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Allscripts’ EHR Gets a Makeover
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Physician software vendor Allscripts has several new features and enhancements in version 9.0 of its Allscripts Professional EHR for small- and medium-sized practices.
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