Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Nuance, provider of clinical documentation and communication products to healthcare organizations, released a survey it conducted with nearly 1,000 physicians. It is somewhat self-serving – more on that later – but it does highlight issues to which EHR vendors need to pay attention.
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Chiroeco
“Over the past few decades, technology has altered nearly every facet our lives, and chiropractic is no exception. Electronic adjusting tables, cold laser therapy, practice management software, and computerized adjusting instruments make up just a small sample of the new technology changing the way DCs do business.
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UPI
“Canadian health officials found 41 percent of clinical trials have moved away from managing trial data using only paper records.
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“When the public gets its chance to comment on upcoming meaningful use rules, the government’s advisory health IT panel will know if they got the standards piece of the entitlement package right.
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Margret Amatayakul, HFMA
“The healthcare industry is abuzz with questions about what it means to demonstrate “meaningful use” of electronic health record (EHR) technology to be eligible for federal stimulus incentives.
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Ideaworks
“People with diabetes, asthma and a host of other conditions have carried information about their condition in case of an emergency for decades.
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Lauran Neergaard, Boston Globe
“Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation’s ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient’s health history during a crisis — and which can immediately text-message loved ones that the person is headed for a hospital.
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John, EMR and EHR
“Healthcare InformationWeek has an article that discusses the challenges of EMR security and privacy. A lot of the stuff is nothing new to those of us in the healthcare space. Although, it’s interesting to see how they summarize things like the goal to be full EMR by 2014 and the EMR stimulus money.
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KevinMD.com
“The number of physicians adopting e-mail has been distressingly low.
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Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“Zum Jahresende löst sich nach einer Meldung der Heilbronner Stimme die Arbeitsgemeinschaft auf, die die Tests der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte in der Region Heilbronn koordinierte.
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HospitalDigital
“Desde hace algún tiempo se está gestando una nueva empresa de Telemedicina. Pero esta vez el modelo es innovador y global en su concepto, se trata de e-Diagnostic.
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Linda Kallman, TMCNet
“A significant number of older U.S. citizens need medical care today, and their numbers are growing rapidly.
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George MCinnes, Diagnostic Imaging Europe
“Teleradiology is evolving at different rates across Europe. There are some countries, like in parts of Spain, where a group that owns several radiology clinics can benefit in many ways by contracting all reporting to a single teleradiology firm.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Attendees at the Toward an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference in May 2008 were told that some 10 million Americans would be storing and controlling personal health records on mobile phones by the time the next TEPR rolled around in February 2009.
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TMCNews
“Datamonitor believes that although healthcare is going mobile because specific aspects of the industry make this a uniquely perfect fit, the movement is due to shifts in the consumer market, not changes in the industry alone.
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Rajiv Mehta, Zume Life
“Billions of little health experiments are constantly going on, as every day people around the world try new foods, medications, therapies. Many people conduct their experiments without their doctor’s involvement and often against the healthcare industry’s official recommendation: “consult your physician first.” While health professionals often lament “people won’t take responsibility for their health,” many people are in fact grabbing the reins.
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Nicolel, EHR Scope Blog
“Telehealth is an emerging field that links patients and physicians across the country and beyond via video and health information technology. The telecommunications giant AT&T is investing heavily in this growing “telehealth” industry.
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Octavian Purcarea, Microsoft EMEA Health Blog
“For the last months, I assisted at the development of several mobile applications very useful for remote diagnostic, second opinion and emergency situations.
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BlueApoc, HealthTechnica
“Medical Devices make a big difference in everyone’s life. Saving lives. Improving care. Helping people recover and get back on their feet. This video explores some ways medical devices are making a difference and how people are designing and building them in the Pacific Northwest. Pursuing a career in this growing industry can make a big difference in their lives, too. Watch this program to learn how.”
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Jeffrey Burt, eWeek.com
“IBM Global Financing has entered into deals with four healthcare organizations to help them pay for their EHR projects while they await federal stimulus funds.
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