Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“MobiHealthNews broke the news last week that the mobile EHR product that came out of Apple’s pilot with EMR vendor Epic Systems was an iPhone app called Haiku, but Haiku was not the first EMR to grant iPhone and iPod touch users remote access.
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New Scientist
“When Ross Clark read in New Scientist (29 March 2008, p 26) that the US military considered the Nintendo Wiimote controller accurate enough to control bomb disposal robots, it set him thinking. Could the Wii’s skiing and snowboarding attachment, the balance board, help rehabilitate people who have had a stroke?
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CNNMoney
“An Internet-based virtual assistant and a tabletop touch screen are two projects the tech giant is working on.”
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Bill Crounse, HealthBlog
“In fact, it is not the EMR that will deliver the value but rather what we do next with the health information that is digitized.
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PR-inside
“Medical Care Technologies Inc. today announced that the company has entered into discussions with Chinese local officials to launch MDCE’s first Telehealth Clinic in North China.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“My dear wife works for a credit card processor.
Over the years she has given me horror stories about new security procedures. Her hard drive is encrypted, old drives are shredded, and she can’t even get into her PC without a strong password that is changed regularly.
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
‘The 20th WorldVistA Community Meeting got under way in Tempe, Ariz., Thursday, with the looming challenge of “meaningful” use very much on the minds of most of the proponents of open-source healthcare information technology who gathered for it.
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iHealthBeat
“A recent survey from Computer Sciences Corp. found that many hospitals are unprepared to meet the federal government’s recently released requirements for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records.
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Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
“Advocates for a discipline known as information therapy are taking credit for some of the requirements in the Health and Human Services Department’s recent proposed rules for digital health records.
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Kathy Robertson, San Jose Business Journal
“Cisco Systems Inc. is contributing $10 million in equipment, services and support for a telemedicine pilot program in California, company officials announced Friday.
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Kelly Young, RA Warrior
“Over the last few years, the internet has changed the way that healthcare consumers (patients) interact with providers and manage their own medical care. A Pew survey showed that 61% of patients look online for healthcare information. Sixty percent of them access social media** related to health. Judging by the response to the recent post about message boards, our readers agree.
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Marcia Frellick, amednews
“With the December 2009 launch of a new national e-mail alert system for medication errors, health care professionals nationwide will get quick notice when a deadly or potentially deadly error has occurred.
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eCareGiver
“With ever increasing costs of institutional care, restrictions on inpatient care by managed-care organizations, and the desire to “age in place” by individuals with medical conditions requiring regular medical monitoring, tele-medicine is fast becoming a cost-effective and viable option for many Americans.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“Nearly half of online physicians in Western Europe watch online video for professional purposes, according to a new survey.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“I hate it when I have to repeat myself, it brings memories of those classic vinyl records and the needle hanging in the same groove. Nevertheless, it seems necessary.
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Andreas Udo de Haes, Webwereld
“Minister Klink houdt vast aan DigiD voor de authenticatie van patiënten tot hun EPD, maar dat is volgens de VVD niet de veiligste optie. De partij dreigt de steun voor het EPD in te trekken.
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jmfaner, Hospital Digital
“Es un resumen bastante completo del estado de la sociedad de la información en España en general con abundantes datos de otros países europeos y Estados Unidos, aunque no siempre los datos ofrecidos permiten una comparación directa por no estar agrupados de la misma manera. He echado en falta también la comparación de indicadores por comunidades autónomas aunque es muy útil los capítulos dedicados específicamente a cada una de ellas.
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
‘Healthcare industry leaders and their lobbyists have had a little more than a week to read and digest the massive new “meaningful use” proposed rule that the CMS released.
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iHealthBeat
“Experts warn that the country’s shift to electronic health records could lead to a rise in health care fraud, CNNMoney reports.
Health care fraud already costs the U.S. as much as $100 billion annually.
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HCPLive
“2009 may very well be looked back on as the year that social media finally came into its own in healthcare. Compared to how things were a couple of years ago, the current level of penetration, acceptance, and utilization of social media tools of all stripes within healthcare is striking. Now, it seems that every physician not only has a blog, but also a Twitter account and a Facebook page. Forward-thinking innovators are constantly devising new social media tools, while power users conjure a steady stream of new, healthcare-specifi c uses for existing platforms.
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