Sheri Porter, AAFP News
“Can an electronic health record, or EHR, system really benefit a primary care practice? Can health information technology, or health IT, help physicians in solo and group practices run more efficient and profitable businesses and provide top-notch care to patients of all ages?
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“What is truly odd in this announcement by Revolution Health is that rather than offering their customers the option to directly export their data to another service, be it Google Health, HealthVault, WebMD or one of the PHR players in the market, they are taking the most expeditious path out the door. Not exactly consumer friendly.
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Alan Brookstone, Canadian EMR
“A couple of years ago I created a Personal Health Record on the Revolution Health web site in the US. This was more of an experiment than a need to create a PHR for myself, but I was very interested to see how PHRs worked and how they could be used by ‘consumers’ of healthcare.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Microsoft’s delicate dance in the health IT market mirrors its challenges of the last decade, struggling to go “up the stack” in applications without destroying the ecosystem on which its power rests.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Without aggressive action, personal health record platforms Dossia and Google Health may be in danger of fading into the background, according to an analyst.
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Cynthia Johnson, HealthLeaders Media
“When faced with the possibility of an upcoming medical procedure, you want to have all sources of information available to you. If you are like 61% of American adults, that means you’ll look online for health information, according to a 2009 report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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Cheryl Clark, HealthLeaders Media
“Nearly two-thirds of Americans who answered a phone survey last month said they do not trust the federal government–including the U.S. Health and Human Services Agency–to protect their health record privacy.
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Aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“E-patients are going online to seek information, share opinions and select treatments and providers. In Using Twitter for e-Patient Communications, Kevin Kruse and the Kru Research team reveal how you can reach and engage your audience with micro-blogging.”
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Kevin Pho, USA Today
“Raise your hand if you’ve ever left a physician’s office without fully understanding what the doctor just told you. According to The New England Journal of Medicine, half of patients admit to not understanding what their doctor told them during an office visit.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“It was reported on Jan. 26 that the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel, better known as HITSP, will close shop when its contract expires Jan. 31, but John Halamka, MD, said a contract extension will keep HITSP operational until ONC awards work for the next evolution of standards development.
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Aliya Sternstein, NextGov
“The common denominator driving the Obama administration’s push for widespread use of electronic health records, smart meters and downloadable agency statistics is consumer empowerment, the top federal technology official said on Monday.
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Shawn Bell, Slave River Journal
“Health care patients in Fort Smith will have shorter wait times for lab results now the GNWT has rolled out electronic access to health records across the territory.
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Fred Schulte, Huffington Post Investigative Fund
“When Kaiser Permanente started giving patients online access to their medical records nearly five years ago, it offered the same lab reports doctors saw—complete with warning flags highlighting any abnormal results.
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David Morrison, Star News Online
“Social media is developing into more than a pastime for the elderly and disabled. If implemented properly, it could become their social lifeline.
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David Blumenthal, Health IT Buzz
“The CDC recently released its latest report on the adoption of electronic health records/electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) amongst office-based physicians from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. As a physician who trained and initially practiced in a time where nearly every order, record, and prescription was paper-based, the results are striking to me.
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KNMG Artsennet
“Werkt u al met een online afsprakensysteem of een e-mail spreekuur? Heeft uw organisatie ook een elektronisch patiëntenportaal? Doet u aan tele-dermatologie?
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Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“Gilles Frydman is one of the leading ePatients. He started and runs ACOR (Association of Cancer Online Resources) and has discussed the role of engaged patients with rare diseases at the last few Health 2.0 Conferences. We’ll be hearing more from Gilles in the US this year, but first we’re inviting him to present at Health 2.0 Europe.
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KevinMD.com
“The robots are coming. Or that’s what those who advocate for so-called “telemedicine” predict.
In a recent New York Times column, Pauline Chen discusses the phenomenon of telemedicine, looking at a study of remote monitoring of intensive care patients in addition to usual care.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Are the 25 criteria for achieving Meaningful Use of Certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs) “too many and too high”? That is the complaint voiced at the Regional Healthcare Stimulus Exchange Conference by several large hospital systems – Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), Intermountain Healthcare and Kaiser Permanente.
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PRWeb
“Dermatologists and medical oncologists are the physician specialist groups most likely to communicate with patients online, according to the latest physician report, “Physicians in 2012: The Outlook on Health Information Technology,” from pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research.
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