MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“At “As Records Go Digital, Cultures Clash, Bringing to Life Secrets the Health IT Companies Don’t Want You to Know” I wrote of the used-car nature of the healthcare IT market, where lemon laws do not seem to exist and “physician buyer beware” seems a defining characteristic.
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Symtym
“The commons refers to resources that are collectively owned. There are two tragedies that may befall a commons: The Tragedy of the Commons and The Tragedy of the Anticommons. Paraphrasing Michael Heller (Gridlock Economy): the tragedy of the commons is when too many people share a single resource, we tend to overuse it; and the tragedy of the anticommons is when too many people own a single resource, and anyone can block the use.
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Elias Aboujaoude, Everyday Psychology
“Our clinic recently moved to a new charting system wh
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Adam Morris and Michael Blackley, News Scotsman
“Fresh fears have been raised over the protection of personal information after both the city council and NHS Lothian were hit by new “data loss” incidents.
The Evening News has uncovered a series of cases where sensitive information has been lost or stolen in the past year.
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Alan Brookstone, Canadian EMR
‘Over the years I have spoken with many physicians, practice managers and change management consultants about the process of EMR implementation. What makes for a successful implementation? How can a practice improve their chances of success?
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Hamza Mousa, Goomedic
“How to search for medical and health information ?! This question is buzzed often from many non professional users who are seeking simple medical information.
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Steve Nowottny, Pulse
“Privacy concerns, chronic delays and mounting costs – now an incoming government has decided to shelve an ambitious national care records project, writes PulseToday editor Steve Nowottny.
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Sam Adams, IT (R)Evolutions
“Keep some things in mind as you read this – first, this is from a limited subset of experience – I’m not a travelling consultant, so I speak from personal and trusted second-hand experiences and from a deep well of understanding how to make technology work – hardware & software – within an enterprise business world. Second, there are HealthSystems that are on the ball, adopting technology, spending time and money on software infrastructure that will get them there.
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Steve Wilkins, Mind the Gap
“The Patient Centered model of care is predicated among other things on physicians factoring in knowledge of the “person behind the patient” into their treatment. That’s means understanding and, where practical, honoring the patient’s beliefs, values and preferences.
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Collin Evans, Dossia Blog
“A recent CNN.com article (http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/14/medical.records) entitled “Patients demand: ‘Give us our damned data’” highlights the barriers that many patients must overcome in order to get access to their own medical records.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
‘I firmly believe the right EHR and CPOE will be great for hospitals. Providers will be better served by finding answers to the question, “What’s in it for me,” rather than, “What do they want me to do?”
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“Sometimes, a little guidance is helpful—even if it has to come in the form of being led around like camel with a ring through its nose. One of my on-line friends, a nurse who teaches nursing—seems like a good fit–asked me what are the success factors for EHR.
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David M. Polaner, ModernHealthcare
“In response to freelancer Linda Wilson’s “Med students not ready to use EHRs: study”:
I am not at all surprised by this, and, in fact, would bet a substantial portion of my income that most of their attending physicians are not either.
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ThaiIndian News
“India is willing to share its expertise with Africa in bridging the digital divide, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has said in Addis Ababa while inaugurating a telemedicine facility of India’s flagship information technology initiative, Pan-African e-network.
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Dietmar Krause, Weblog Medizin IT und Telemedizin
“Elektonische Patientenakten als Mehrwertanwendung der elektronsischen Gesundheitskarte eGK sind aktuell politisch ausgebremst. Derweil schafft die Industrie Fakten: Die elektronische Patientenakte von Microsoft, die im Ausland bereits verfügbar ist, wird nun auch in Deutschland eingeführt. Das Produkt heisst HealthVault und ist eine internetbasierte elektronische Patientenakte.
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theMobileHealthCrowd
“The Socket Bluetooth CHS 7XRx is designed for use in healthcare applications such as scanning patient wristbands for identification purposes and reading medications imprinted with 2D barcodes.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“According to a new study, as many as 90 percent of hospitals and health systems use social media, but just one in three have a formal social media plan in place – something researchers say is key to using such media successfully.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“When Microsoft first entered the health IT industry a few years ago it was seen as an interloper, an outsider, a mainline “PC software” company trying to muscle into a specialist area in direct competition with its own customers.
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Rob Lamberts, The Health Care Blog
“I was talking to a fellow physician about a mutual patient. I had information that would help him in their care and he was taking the unusual step of asking me for my information. I was impressed.
“Could you fax me those documents?” he asked. ”Here’s my fax number.”
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“As expected, Apple unveiled its new tablet device, the iPad, and it dominated the news cycle this week. Apple positioned the device as a new platform positioned at the intersection of the “liberal arts and technology” — a clear indication that the healthcare industry was not its top of mind use case.
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