Glenn Laffel, KevinMD
“Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released criteria that will be used to certify EHRs as appropriate support tools for providers who want to qualify for Bonanza Days.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Healthcare data is rendered meaningless unless it can be shared, industry experts say. The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North America Connectathon, now in its 11th year, recently showed how to get interoperability done right.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Competition and lost revenue are keeping communities from participating in health information exchanges, panelists told attendees at the Regional Healthcare Stimulus Exchange Conference.
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Janine Budding, Medicalfacts
“Vandaag hebben het UMC Utrecht en het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC) het contract ondertekend met leverancier ChipSoft voor de volledige vernieuwing en verbetering van hun zorg-ICT. In de komende anderhalf jaar vervangen beide UMC’s hiermee hun bestaande ziekenhuisinformatiesysteem (ZIS) dat ze uitbreiden met een nieuw Elektronisch Patiëntendossier (EPD).
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“I’ve still got the first day of the San Francisco Regional Healthcare Stimulus Exchange National Road Show on my mind because there was a lot of meaningful – no pun intended – dialogue going on in many of the sessions.
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Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare
“Republicans are not the only ones blocking the Obama Administration’s healthcare agenda these days. Hospitals are also pushing back big-time against the “meaningful use” criteria required for them to get government health IT incentives.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“Federal health IT policymakers said yesterday they crafted a set of more flexible standards for electronic health records systems to make it easier for providers to qualify for meaningful use when the first phase of the health IT incentive program starts next year.
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Scoop Health
“Halton and St Helens Community Health Services in the UK have launched a 12 month telehealth project where they will asses the effectiveness of telehealth to remotely manage the health of locals living with a chronic condition.
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Alva H. Wright, Telematics Weekly
“I was recently asked to prognosticate on what I believed to be the next significant trend in this tumultuous market. I have a number of predictions, but let’s focus on recent events. The Republican Party’s historic win for the open Senate seat in the state of Mass should effectively kill the president’s current Health Care Legislation.
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Luke, PublicTechnology
“Blackpool Council’s Vitaline and NHS Blackpool report the successful use of telehealth home monitoring, allowing independent living to people with long-term conditions.
Telehealth led to a 75% reduction in hospital admissions for the COPD & Heart Disease patients on the 12-month pilot, as well as an 85% reduction in GP visits and a 43% reduction in home visits by community matrons during the pilot, alleviating pressure on care providers and ensuring resources can be deployed effectively where needed most.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“The ranking member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee this week asked 31 hospitals and health-care systems to provide feedback on problems with computer systems associated with the government’s efforts to incent the rollout of electronic health records (EHR).
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Brian X. Chen, Gadget Lab
“U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley was shooting a documentary about the impact of poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He could have died, but he ultimately survived with the help of an iPhone first-aid app that taught him to treat his wounds.
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openPR
“ITH icoserve is decorated with the highest level quality award for electronic health records.
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Galveston Texas
“Your personal health information – do you know who has it or where to find it in Dallas, Houston or in the other Texas cities where you have lived? Do you have it? In most cases, a complete record of all of your personal health information can’t be found at any single location or in any consistent format. Each one of your healthcare providers (family practitioner, allergist, OB-GYN, etc.) compiles a separate medical record on you. And often times, these multiple medical records can lead to an incomplete story about your health.
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Catherine Saint Louis, The New York Times
“Imagine the ease. It’s 2 a.m. and you can’t stop thinking about your saggy midsection. You log on to SurgeonHouseCall.com and create a free patient profile declaring your wish to get a tummy tuck. You fill out a brief medical history and include photographs of the problem area.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Regular readers know about my skepticism toward personal health records. You’re probably also aware that I have been critical of media coverage touting Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault as the clear industry leaders in this category. They’re not.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“In the wake of the release of the CMS Proposed Rule regarding “meaningful use,” one would expect that the mist would begin to clear and facts emerge. But it seems that as the hype intensifies, so does the dissemination of misinformation.
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Matthew Holt, The Health 2.0 Blog
“Health 2.0 Advisors is the research and consulting arm of the Health 2.0 family and it will be offering a series of reports, a database of all Health 2.0 organizations, and others consulting services including one day workshops/bootcamps and research services.
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Pete Rivera, Healthcare Informatics
“With very little fanfare EPIC released Haiku. It is a free iPhone application that allows users to access their EPIC system and obtain schedules, patient lists, health summaries, test results and notes. After so many blogs about how healthcare is the “late adopter” to most technologies, along comes EPIC and does something about it.
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Kate Huvane Gamble, Healthcare Informatics
“As healthcare organizations move further into an electronic environment, the need for an accurate system of patient identification is becoming increasingly evident. Errors resulting from duplicate patient records or incomplete information can incur significant costs, burden the administrative staff, and most importantly, compromise patient safety.
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