Claire O'Connell, Irish Times
“A stroke patient received urgent and potentially life-saving treatment in Mullingar on Sunday after a consultant at another hospital used a robotic device to assess her remotely and prescribe clot-busting medication.
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Ben Schwan, Heise Online
“Ähnlich wie Blutzuckermessinstrumente die Diabetes-Bekämpfung revolutioniert haben, könnte ein neues Gerät des kalifornischen Start-ups Aneeve Nanotechnologies bald die Therapie hormoneller Störungen erleichtern.
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Lana Kunz, Courier Press
“Xiaoli Magary no longer has to endure hours on the road for a 10-minute checkup. The 12-year-old can see a doctor from Cincinnati’s Shriners Hospital for Children without ever leaving Evansville.
With the time she saves from making once-frequent trips to Cincinnati, she can now devote herself to playing violin in the Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.
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Benzinga
“Premera Blue Cross today announced an important collaboration with Microsoft aimed at providing Microsoft employees with integrated, personal health records.
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Hans Lewis, TMCnet
“According to 2009 preliminary estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or “CDC,” of the U.S. Government, four out of every 10 office-based or clinic based physicians use electronic health records, or “EHR,” or electronic medical records, or “EMR.”
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Brian Robinson, Government Health IT
“Cisco, the world’s leadingsupplier of networking technology, is piloting what it is touting as a “transformative” telemedicine program at 15 sites in California, in partnership with several community centers, Molina Healthcare and the state of California.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“Some more thoughts on the post on KevinMD’s site stemming from Dr. Gwenn’s blog.
Justifiable on-line road rage. I run a consulting firm. You know what? I hate it—running the firm, that is. The consulting is great fun. I am guessing that being a physician is a lot like that.
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Gwenn Schurgin O’Keeffe, KevinMD
“New technologies can make healthcare more personalized, strengthen the patient–physician relationship, put the right information in the right hands at the right time, and potentially improve outcomes and efficiency across the healthcare spectrum. So why are so many physicians reluctant to embrace these changes?
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Sky News
“The federal government says its proposed e-health system will improve patient safety and free up GPs.
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ICTzorg
“Terwijl in politiek Den Haag de discussie over het landelijk EPD nog steeds voortduurt, gaat Nictiz dit jaar de volgende stap in dat dossier testen.
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“Privacy fears over Federal Government plans to put personal medical details in a national health database have been ignored and personal information put at risk.
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Patrick Barta, Adventures in telepsychiatry
“I’ve been playing with Google Wave for a few days now, and I’m really intrigued with the future possibilities for using it in conjunction with telepsychiatry.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“The e-health revolution got a shot in the arm earlier this month when health care network giant Kaiser Permanente and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs declared a months-long pilot program of sharing patient electronic health records (EHR) a success.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ComputerWorld
“Since I run my own small business, I’m very interested in health care reform. You see, my tiny — two-person — company pays more than four figures a month for health insurance. Ow!
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“As physicians experience mounting pressure to contain costs and improve outcomes while their patient loads increase, many are finding that patients can be the most cost-effective and valuable tools to help them do their jobs.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The proposed rules released by the Dept. of Health and Human Services for achieving meaningful use from EHRs incorporates recommendations made by proponents of information therapy.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“The government’s expectation that electronic medical records will dramatically improve care coordination across multiple care settings might come up short if changes are not made to both policy and EMR systems themselves, according to a recent study.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS North East Essex is launching its Summary Care Record programme this week and 12 other primary care trusts in East of England plan to follow by 1 April.
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“I remember hearing a story about a software demonstration for practice management and billing – a classic where the practice principal proudly stood up and gave testimony about the merits of his new system, including the news that he had to hire extra staff in order to run it, above those who had run the practice beforehand.
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Tunde Fatunde, University World News
“Telemedicine has finally arrived in Nigeria via a pilot project recently launched at Lagos University. This interactive electronic mode of teaching, research and provision of medical services has been embraced by lecturers, students and patients.
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