John Moore, Chilmark Research
“At some point, hopefully in the not so distant future, physicians, clinics and hospitals will reach for the ARRA/HITECH Act carrot, adopt a certified EHR and demonstrate meaningful use. One proposed requirement for meaningful use that will likely pass through the CMS rule making process is the requirement allowing citizens to receive their personal health information (PHI) is a digital format.
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Express Computer
“It is common knowledge that Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) play a critical role in improving healthcare services. However, when one looks at the adoption rates of ICT in the sector, a rather dismal picture appears.
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Express Computer
“To say that telemedicine is modern healthcare’s new frontier would be an understatement. Essentially it is a means of facilitating the distribution of professional competencies and medicinal resources; it can speed up diagnosis and therapeutic care delivery and allow peripheral and healthcare providers to receive continuous assistance from specialized centers.
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Lauren McKay, Destination CRM
“The market for electronic health records (EHRs) is an interesting one to watch. Government support of EHR implementation is on the rise thanks to stimulus funding; however adoption among hospitals and physicians remains low.
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Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek Healthcare
“A Washington, D.C., post-acute care center is building an Internet-based electronic health records system to allow patients and their families to better manage their health after patients leave the hospital.
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Marketing Charts
‘While medical professionals remain a keystone of the US healthcare delivery system, patients and caregivers are empowering themselves in record numbers when it comes to managing their own health and the health of their families, according to new data from Manhattan Research, which revealed that the internet surpassed physicians as the most popular health resource for the first time last year.
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Iltifat Husain, KevinMD
“There has been a great deal of commentary profiling medical applications that are useful for healthcare providers. However, there hasn’t been much talk about how mobile medical applications can enhance the doctor-patient experience and in turn help optimize your practice’s overall experience.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“MobiHealthNews had the opportunity to interview George MacGinnis with the Assistive Technology Programme at the NHS Connecting for Health in the UK at the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit in London earlier this month. MacGinnis explained the differences between telecare and telehealth, how the UK enjoys a lead on the US and other countries when it comes to some telemedicine penetration rates, and how Continua’s work toward personal medical device interoperability is key.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Practicing evidence-based medicine can be an overwhelming challenge to a rank-and-file physician. Certainly, physicians try to keep up – reading journals, interacting with colleagues, attending conferences, engaging in Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities, and (increasingly) using the internet for medical data lookup – but the pace of information becoming available will outstrip any given physician’s ability to remain current.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Results from a national survey of regional health information organizations show simplicity and early funding commitments from participants improve viability of the initiatives.
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Paul Roemer, Hospital Impact
“The national EHR market is ripe for the taking by a big three like Microsoft, Google and Oracle. Heck, I’ll even go so far as to suggest that when the dust settles in about five or seven years, the National Health Information Network will be a regulated combination of a handful of those firms.
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Karla Islas Pieck, Diario Médico
“La plataforma virtual en 3D Second Life se ha consolidado como una herramienta de comunicación útil para los médicos de familia españoles. La Isla de la Salud, espacio virtual creado por la Sociedad Española de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria (Semfyc), acoge gran parte de las reuniones de los grupos de trabajo de esta sociedad científica, además de un interesante programa de actividades formativas y culturales.
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The Medical News
“Medifacts International, Inc., one of the largest global providers of noninvasive cardiovascular diagnostic services, today announced that they are once again leading the Cardiovascular Safety Services marketplace in innovation, expertise, and execution – this time with new innovations in the use of telemedicine, T-SMBP (Telemonitoring Self Measured Blood Pressure), in clinical trials.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
‘A new landmark study on EHRs was published this week, and its implications for widespread physician adoption of traditional (“legacy”) EHR technology—particularly by high-performance specialists—are dismal. Published on December 14 in the well-respected Milbank Quarterly, the study represents the most thorough EHR analysis to-date, basing its conclusions on an exhaustive review of 195 previous studies.
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Cheryl McEvoy, Advance
“Facilities thrive on control. They monitor the master patient index (MPI), review charts and audit databases–all to nip potential problems in the bud. Now, facilities must learn how to trust. Health information exchange (HIE) is imminent, and the move to make records more available also leaves data more vulnerable to contamination, duplication and mix-ups. Individual participants can prepare all they want, but bad data can snarl the exchange.
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Mike Williams, Michael Pfeffer, Juliana Boyle, Donald M. Hilty for CHCF
“Patients who present in the emergency department (ED) with mental health issues often encounter long delays before being evaluated and admitted, transferred, or discharged. Arranging appropriate evaluation for these patients often disproportionately affects the operation of the ED, particularly in terms of space and staffing.
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H. Valiyev, Trend Capital
“Azerbaijan accepts provisions of the memorandum of CIS cooperation in telemedicine only in terms of compliance with all the interests of the country, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies Information Society Development Head Rufat Gulmammadov told media.
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The Leader-Post
“The diagnosis is blunt: Six years after Saskatchewan residents were given the right to see their personal health records, access is “more complicated and more difficult than is necessary”.
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CNNMoney
“Finding a way to easily and quickly share information from electronic health records (EHRs) between hospitals and physician practices that are using different EHR systems is a key problem for the healthcare industry. As more organizations implement EHR systems to take advantage of the incentives offered through the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the problem will continue to compound.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
There is a lot to write about with all the EHR studies appearing the last couple of days. And I will do so in due course.
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