Bob Brewin, NextGov
“Digitizing medical lab tests is one of the key components of a plan to develop a national electronic health record system, but the majority of lab reports are issued in paper form, one of the top executives heading up the initiative told a health policy panel on Tuesday.
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David Collin, The Vortex
“Wired published an article yesterday by Hadley Leggett about the trend to tracking data about babies almost as soon as the little darlings have slipt the womb.
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KevinMD.com
“More doctors are using social media than ever, and that’s a good thing.
One thing to be careful of, however, is how easy it is to share confidential patient information.
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Carrie Vaughan, HealthLeaders Media
“It started with a simple goal: to send radiology images to healthcare facilities throughout Montana in a manner that was cheaper and more efficient than using FedEx to mail CDs overnight. About 30 healthcare organizations in Montana joined the grassroots organization called the Image Movement of Montana.
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Phil Baumann, KevinMD.com
“Way back in January, Phil Baumann, RN, provided an empathic answer to the question/concern that was on everyone’s mind then: “Yeah, Twitter seems great and all, but can you use it for anything useful in healthcare?”
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EurekAlert!
“Although physicians support the use of electronic health records, concerns about potential privacy breaches remain an issue, according to two research articles published in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Informatics Association (JAMIA), in its premiere issue as one of 30 specialty titles published by the BMJ (British Medical Journal) Group, UK.
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Mario Gibbels, ICTzorg
“De implementatie van een nieuw EPD kost niet alleen geld, ze biedt ook mogelijkheden tot besparingen. Het is echter wel noodzakelijk dat de baten van het EPD gedurende de hele implementatie worden gemonitord.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Comparative effectiveness research received a significant boost from Recovery Act (ARRA) money – $1.1 billion has been earmarked for this type of research. ARRA provides $300 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), $400 million for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and $400 million for the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“Local electronic patient record systems are often more effective than larger scale projects, according to a new study by the academic leading the independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council (CCSNPC) is on the fast track with the build out of its Chatham County Health Information Exchange (HIE). CCSNPC chose its health IT vendor, Orion Health, in October and anticipates the pilot project going live in March 2010.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“The Healthcare Information Xchange of New York is looking to connect providers throughout northern New York with the deployment of a new data exchange software platform.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Ground Zero Software officials said Lab Tracker HIV is a scalable software platform designed to meet the disease-management needs of healthcare providers who are treating patients living with HIV/AIDS.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“With the proliferation of smartphones, email has become mobile. “And what that means within the healthcare industry is that patients can have quick and easy contact with their physicians to do something like request an appointment,” mHealth Initiative President Claudia Tessier tells For The Record.
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Medical News Today
“The electrophysiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) recently performed the first implantation of a new type of cardiac pacemaker (Accent RF™) in Canada. This landmark procedure was carried out on October 22, 2009 by Drs. Bernard Thibault and Peter Guerra. Both are cardiologists, electrophysiologists at the MHI and professors at the Université de Montréal.
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Daily Health Care News
“A personal health record (PHR) is a health record initiated and maintained by an individual. It can be in the form of a handwritten health diary, but in today’s information age it is most practical and efficient if it is based on a local computer with functionality allowing the exportation of data to a USB flash drive.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Researchers at the University College of London (UCL) analyzed hundreds of studies on EHR projects and concluded that they don’t deliver on their promises. This study follows on the heels of two separate Harvard University studies that came to the same conclusion.
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SkyNews.com.au
“The same technologies which allow us to peer deep into the universe can offer a window on the inner workings of the human body, a Sydney workshop has heard.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“Australian software company, iSoft has launched an integrated management solution specifically for aged and community care organisations.
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Process & Control Today
“Mobility scooters could be fitted with tracking technology to help older and vulnerable people leave their homes without fear of getting lost.
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Trading Markets
“IBM announced a C$22.5 million project with the Government of Manitoba to enhance healthcare throughout the province with the creation of an electronic healthcare records (EHR) system.
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