theMobileHealthCrowd
“Blackpool Council’s Vitaline and NHS Blackpool have reported on the success of the use of telehealth home monitoring to support people with long-term conditions to enable them to live independently at home.
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theMobileHealthCrowd
“According to LSS Data Systems, Citizens Memorial Healthcare have rolled out their web-based LSS Patient Portal. Since their pilot implementation at two of their clinics last spring, CMH has extended the portal to patients to approximately 10 of their clinics, enabling secure online access to their medical record information via Citizens’ own web site.
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Henry Porter, The Guardian
“The decision by Scotland’s Crown Office not to prosecute Dr Andrew Jamieson for accessing the emergency care summary (ECS) records of well-known people is interesting. Despite the absence of a conviction, the case involving footballers, politicans and BBC journalists is significant because it shows that big centralised databases are the enemy of privacy.
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e-Patient Dave
“Back in September, Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal wrote a terrific (fact-based!) send-up of our archaic, arcane, not-customer-centric healthcare system, titled “If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care.”
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Korea IT Times
“According to a new report from Ovum, the global analyst and consulting company, EHR vendors that are unable to capture a sizeable share of the market this year will be pushed out of an already competitive market. The report titled “2010 Trends to Watch: Healthcare Technology” highlights a number of global government initiatives on EHRs as well as the overall economic and consumer drivers that are driving healthcare providers to adopt IT, concluding that 2010 will be a pivotal year in EHR adoption.
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PRWeb
“With the national debate on healthcare still churning, innovations in technology will have a bottom-line impact on people’s health. While a lot of attention has been paid to electronic health records, there is a new breed of technology aimed at preventative, integrative health solutions.
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RWJF
“The purpose of this Web feature is to provide a new and enriched context for the body of work on personal health records funded by the Pioneer Portfolio and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. After five years of funding PHR-related work, the Pioneer Portfolio has acquired a substantial corpus of reports, podcasts, e-primers, and blog posts concerning personal heath records.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Information technology is playing a pivotal role in the work on the ground in earthquake-ravaged Haiti as Boston-based Partners in Health tends to the sick and the maimed.
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Kent Matthies, eCliniqua
“It is estimated that 60% of the computer systems containing patient medical records currently in use within the United States are not in compliance with the industry standards for security, audit trails, and electronic signatures,” states industry expert David Nettleton, FDA Compliance Specialist, of Computer System Validation.
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Joe Eaton, Center for Public Integrity
“As the federal government prepares to spend up to $27 billion in stimulus funds to promote electronic medical records, a health technology industry survey suggests that a number of hospitals, health clinics, and insurance firms are violating federal security rules on patient data and putting sensitive health information at risk.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Ever since the ONC made its recommendations to CMS for Meaningful Use and Certification of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), we have been commenting on several aspects of the 25 criteria categories needed to be eligible for HITECH incentives starting in 2011. We have commented on the question of Certification and stand-alone billing systems, and on challenges around interoperability, particularly with respect to statewide and regional Immunization Registries.
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“The Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has introduced a research and policy overview of personal health records (PHRs) and related issues. The feature traces the history and development of PHRs and discusses their role within the larger health information technology arena.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’ve been promising some more detailed coverage on Meaningful Use for a little bit now. I’ll admit that life has been busy, but I’ll also admit that the amount of information out there on Meaningful Use is also a bit overwhelming. However, consider this the start of my coverage of meaningful use. This is still kind of general, but should get us started down the path of meaningful use (I hope).
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BlueApoc, HealthTechnica
“Cutting edge technology is now increasing the efficiency of nurses at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. Nurses and other point of care workers are now able to receive all of their voice, alarm, and text messages on their iPhones, thanks to Voalté’s first-of-its-kind healthcare application.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“Vanguard Health Systems, a founding member of the Dossia consortium, has begun rolling out Dossia electronic personal health records to its employees in a big way — and plans to add some bells and whistles of its own soon.
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Telecare Aware
“Having kept tabs on Proteus Biomedical and its major investment from Novartis (13 Jan), The Economist digs and finds that Philips is now promoting an ‘intelligent pill’, a US startup called MicroCHIPS is developing implants that hold drugs or monitoring devices, plus mention of Vitality GlowCaps (wireless programmable pill bottle caps), Vodafone and Orange mobile platforms.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“It’s been widely reported that people have been using the Nintendo Wii, particularly the Wii Fit, to get in shape.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“NHS Connecting for Health has invited suppliers to help develop and test standards for electronic discharge summaries in an extension to its interoperability toolkit programme.
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Fran Johns, True/Slant
“Getting health care — whatever happens with the health care bill — is no longer just a matter of getting to the doctor. Issues of comfort, efficiency and cost control increasingly point to the use of telemedicine, which is coming, ready or not. And one recent report suggested the medical profession isn’t ready.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“I read with interest Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ opinion piece, “EHR is health care reform we call all agree on.” For the same reasons he gave, as a consumer I want a physician outside my doctor’s group to know my medical history when he or she is treating me for the first time. I want him or her to know that I’m allergic to sulpha drugs, and know some other critical pieces of my medical information that would inform the treatment plan.
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