Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“HITSP, an organization that sorted through and worked to harmonize healthcare IT standards and whose work provided an early foundation for “meaningful use,” will cease to exist in its current form after this week.
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eHealthServer
“GE Healthcare is bringing to market a global vision of eHealth that encompasses solutions and services enabling the exchange, sharing, workflow and distribution of images and clinical information across multiple hospitals, regions or nations. The goal is to connect patients, physicians, care providers, payers, GP offices, pharmacies, laboratories and others.
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CMIO
“EHR vendors must incorporate software-as-a-service (SaaS) and speech recognition services into their product portfolio if they wish to take advantage of market opportunities in 2010 EHR market, according to a report by market research firm Ovum.
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Hein Bosman, ICTzorg
“De patiënt die telezorg gebruikt moet niet de vrijheid die hij daarmee wint, verspelen door onkunde”. Een coach kan uitkomst bieden.
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ScienceDaily
“Handheld devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the iPod Touch are prevalent among doctors.
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Hein Bosman, ICTzorg
“Het gros van de EPD’s in de markt krijgt van mij niet meer dan een mager zesje, vooral vanwege de datakerkhoven die kunnen ontstaan.”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“For the most part, the American Academy of Family Physicians, an advocate for health IT, supports the meaningful use criteria that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released at the end of last year. They have an issue, however, with the reporting requirements of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
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Denise Silber's Blog
“L’e-santé, cela bouge en 2010 aux Etats-Unis, en Europe dont la France. Le ressentez-vous comme moi ? Sûrement, mais avez-vous suivi l’avancée de Microsoft Healthvault en Belgique ? Pas facile, si vous n’êtes pas sur place. Je rappelle que Microsoft Healthvault et GoogleHealth sont des “personal health records”, c’est à dire le dossier santé personnel, initié par le patient et destiné à contenir des éléments provenant de diverses sources.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“The European Union (EU) is struggling with many of the same healthcare issues as the US, aging population, ever increasing costs of care and the need to move to new modalities of care. This is one of the key take-aways from a recent EU-sponsored report: Reconstructing the Whole: Present and Future of Personal Health Systems.
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Cristiano Codagnone, PHS2020
“The book envisages the research themes needed to be funded and pursued in the future in order to infuse PHS with bio-medical knowledge, produce more intelligent data processing in support of decision making and actuation
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Don Kemper et al, Healthwise
Imagine—anytime you have a health care question, face a treatment decision, or need to learn a new self-management skill, all of the tools you need are presented before you in a tailored, personalized, and easy-to-use way.
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Diane Stafford, The Kansas City Star
“No matter what happens with health care reform, an electronic network to share your medical records is being stitched together.
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Andy Greenberg, Forbes
“As President Obama has learned over the last year, Americans tend to get angry when you try to fix the country’s dysfunctional health care system.
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Harsha Chawla, India Today
“Hands accustomed to kneading dough are now measuring blood pressure, recording electrocardiograms and becoming acquainted with the Internet.
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Jo Ciavaglia, Bucks County Courier Times
“Today, the hospital experience doesn’t end when patients walk out the door. Hospitals are getting involved in patients’ lives after they leave to make sure they don’t return soon.
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Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
“E-prescribing technologies are gaining ground in doctors’ offices and hospitals, but are hampered by gaps in the systems and worries about reliability, industry experts told a federal advisory group today.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“The same discussion where I met Regina Holiday and learned about 73 cents was also one where I received advice about how doctors should engage in social media.
I specifically remember what Regina and the group said (in paraphrase) – “Show me the DNA of a high quality doctor.” and “Demonstrate that this/you are a doctor that I’m going to love.”
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John Commins, HealthLeaders Media
“Nine in 10 hospitals use social media to some degree, but most of them say they’re having little luck attracting new patients with it, and only one in three has a formal social media plan in place, a new study by Greystone.Net shows.
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HealthTechnicaAuthor, HealthTechnica
“Epidemiologist Joel Selanikio has used the explosion in mobile phone technology and the World Wide Web to deliver more effective public health services throughout the developing world. Dr. Selanikio and his organization DataDyne.org are making a difference by improving the medical information available to public health programs in under-served areas of the world. VOA’s Francis Alanzo has a profile for this week’s “Making a Difference” series.”
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Fred Trotter
“I am utterly not surprised to hear that OpenMRS is shining in Haiti.
This reminds me of the tremendous reponse that the VA had to hurricane katrina using VistA. For fun you should ask those involved for the inside scoop of how VistA enabled an entire hospital to uproot and move over the course of a single week.
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