Andrew E. Craig, Medscape
“Twitter, a social networking service, is one of the latest online tools available for staying in touch. It can also be a useful professional tool for physicians.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Reporting of laboratory test results to patients is a challenge to most practicing physicians. Ineffective management of this process can result in suboptimal care, as well as malpractice liability.
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Gonzalo Bacigalupe, CFHA
“Social media tools facilitate the development of self-help and support groups. These networks of support can bring people with rare diseases together or towards a new tailored treatment modality. In the clinical-research arena, the recruitment of patients for a clinical trial would be much easier and effective with these tools than an ad in your local newspaper or an NIH sponsored website. Ease of accessibility is a tremendous and not to be taken for granted potential of these technologies.
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Thomas Goetz, The Decision Tree
“One of the themes of The Decision Tree – both the blog and the book – has been the idea of self-tracking: the notion that when people monitor their health, they are more likely to improve their health. In the aggregate, that’s true – research shows that when people start to track or even care about their health (when the start to feel vested in it, and in control of it) they tend to have better outcomes.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Missouri’s nickname is the “Show-Me State,” which supposedly is attributed to a state representative and exemplifies a stubbornness and devotion to simple common sense. I thought about the state nickname and what it means as I read an article in the Columbia Missourian yesterday about state legislators praising and condemning EHRs. I thought it was a good time to appeal to a little “show-me” common sense.
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Rosa Jiménez Cano, El País
“@dr casado podría ser un suscriptor más de Twitter, si no fuese por el uso que le da a su cuenta. Fernando Casado Campolongo es médico de familia en la Comunidad de Madrid, pasa consulta cada tarde y como es habitual tiene retrasos e imprevistos.
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Chris Gibbons, Healthcare Disparities Solutions Blog
“Congress appears to be on the verge of passing landmark Healthcare reform legislation which proponents argue will significantly improve healthcare for all Americans, in part by increasing the role of information technology in healthcare. Many understand that while passage of the bill may be eminent, achieving the results may yet be several years down the road.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Five NHS strategic health authorities, covering half of England, are planning to begin roll-outs of the Summary Care Record in the New Year.
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Shahina Maqbool, The News International
“The management of cancer patients requires a multidisciplinary approach involving inputs from a variety of specialists including surgeons, radiologists, histopathologists and oncologists. It also places undue pressure on patients, makes it necessary for them to shuttle from one department of a cancer treatment hospital to the other — an exercise which consumes time, tests patience and causes unnecessary delays in management.
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Dina Mendros, Journal Tribune
“Every morning for the past month, Laurent Geoffrey wakes up, steps on the scale to measure his weight, takes his blood pressure and measures his pulse.
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Joseph De Avila, Wall Street Journal
“Earlier this year, Mike Dionne signed up for Polka, a smart-phone application that lets him use his iPhone to keep tabs on the health of his elderly father, who lives 80 miles away. It tracks his dad’s numerous doctors’ appointments, his insulin and medication schedule and other health information.
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Rebecca Beitsch, Columbia Missourian
“As the health care debate grinds on, President Barack Obama’s plan for expanding the use of electronic medical records has been met with some skepticism in Missouri.
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Document Scanning Blog
“Anyone who has ever spent time in a medical office will tell you; paper-based medical records often contain lots of errors.
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“A research team led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, evaluated the use of technology in Canadian clinical trials, and found that a significant proportion (41%) have moved away from collecting and managing trial data using only paper records.
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Medicalfacts
“Op het FysioCongres 2009 is het Fysio-EPD, Incura genaamd geïntroduceerd. Onder die naam heeft de Winbase Groep op basis van het VitalHealth Platform een nieuw webbased EPD voor fysiotherapeuten ontwikkeld. Het programma omvat een compleet zorginhoudelijk patiëntendossier en is workflow-gestuurd, conform de eisen van het KNGF Fysio-EPD en voorbereid op het landelijk EPD.
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Nuance
“Nuance Communications, Inc., has clinical documentation and communication solutions in more than 5,000 healthcare organizations, and more than 250,000 physician users across the United States. Nuance recently engaged more than 17,000 physicians in a survey to learn about physicians’ hopes and concerns with respect to healthcare information technology, as well as to gauge their understanding of developing healthcare government policy.
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Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times
“Americans could soon be able to see a doctor without getting out of bed, in a modern-day version of the house call that takes place over the Web.
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Olivier Cimelière, Le Blog Ericsson France
“En juin 2008, Ericsson et la fondationApollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation (ATNF) se sont rapprochés pour sensibiliser et éduquer les populations rurales indiennes, encourager le déploiement des applications de télémédecine sur les réseaux mobiles haut débit et fournir l’accès à des services médicaux efficaces.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“In the Washington Times last week, Tevi Troy and Jason Fodeman, MD, wrote a commentary, “Electronic flash in pan: Computerized records’ cost-cutting falls short,” essentially bashing President Obama’s push for computerizing patient records.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“A diagnostic laboratory, complete with an image reader and microscope, can fit into your back pocket. Smartphones — rapidly being adopted by physicians for transferring medical information — are turning into clinical tools.
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