Steve Wilkins, KevinMD.com
“The patient-centered model of care is predicated among other things on physicians factoring in knowledge of the “person behind the patient” into their treatment. That’s means understanding and, where practical, honoring the patient’s beliefs, values and preferences.
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Alan Brookstone, Canadian EMR
“Pervasive computing is not as distant as you may think. 30+ years ago NASA astronaut’s vital signs were already being monitored using telehealth technologies. Many technologies are advanced well beyond the ability to apply them to current problems.
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RedOrbit
“The Netherlands’ three Top Institutes for life-science research (the BioMedical Materials program, the Center for Translational Molecular Medicine and Top Institute Pharma) today announced a joint investment of MEUR 28 on innovative research targeted at bringing personalized medicine closer to reality. The projects funded by the group will focus on developing new ways of delivering drugs to specific disease sites within the human body, thereby reducing the required doses, minimizing unwanted side effects and increasing the drugs’ effectiveness.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Visitors to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this morning got a little surprise in their press kits.
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Patrick Barta, Adventures in telepsychiatry
“I think this blog makes it pretty clear that I’m enthusiastic about telepsychiatry. I’ve tried to keep my enthusiasm for it low key with my patients, primarily because I want to accommodate their needs, and not have them feel pressured about whether to use telepsychiatry or not as I work out the best way to do it.
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Greg Nelson , BeyeNetwork
“Informatics is a term used in healthcare and life sciences to describe computerized information systems that support a variety of research based business intelligence and analysis requirements. We often hear the terms bioinformatics, medical informatics, health informatics, nursing informatics or clinical informatics to describe the business context in which “business intelligence” is used to analyze information derived from or for research activities.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“Girish Munavalli, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, never considered dermatologists to be all that tech-savvy.
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“In 2004, President Bush issued an executive order requiring fully operational EHR adoption throughout the healthcare industry by 2014. He also established the Office of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator and charged it with developing a “health information technology infrastructure” that “reduces healthcare costs resulting from inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate care and incomplete information.”
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“A new digital health service in the Finnish city of Espoo has been found to significantly reduce doctor’s workloads and help encourage patients to take more responsibility for their health.
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eHealthNews.EU
“InterSystemsInterSystems has signed a framework contract with NHS National Service Scotland to supply its InterSystems TrakCare™ connected health information system as the new national patient management system for Scotland.
The contract is a national framework in line with Scotland’s eHealth Strategy that will enable any Health Board access to the system and associated modules over the next four years.”
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eHealthNews.EU, 15 February 2010
Laurens Waling, Zorg Kennis Blog
“Terwijl de gemiddelde werknemer in de zorg nog dagelijks tegen allerlei minder handig georganiseerde zaken aanloopt, bruist het ondertussen van de nieuwe ontwikkelingen. Samen met mijn collega’s volg ik de voorbeelden op het gebied van zorg 2.0 en e-health op de voet. Zie onze eerdere berichten op dit vlak. Op Twitter gonsde het al een tijdje rondom een nieuwe baanbrekende ontwikkeling: m-Health.
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Hope Rachel Hetico, Healthcare Finanacials
“But, ever since the term “web 2.0″ was first used in 2004, there has been an inordinate amount of chatter about what web 2.0 really is and its true impact in medicine.
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CompleteRx
“A growing population of elderly, an increase in the number of people suffering from chronic conditions, and an increasing demand for emergency care are among the many critical issues facing hospitals today. Hospitals are seeing an increasing need for access to care and efficiency in healthcare delivery due to continually rising costs and decreasing federal reimbursement.
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Virtual Private Server
“In this digital age, more and more bulks of information which used to be paper-based, from library catalogues to telephone books, are digitized and stored in a central location for easy access. The idea of EMRs started about 40 years ago.
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Newswire
“Cancer.im is the next-generation social networking and resource site for cancer patients, advocates, and volunteers. It boasts many of the features of existing social networking sites like Facebook of MySpace, such the ability of members to blog, post pictures and videos, make and remain in contact with friends, and find others with similar interests.
But unlike those other networks, Cancer.im was designed by Dr. Mahesh Kanojia a world famous oncologist and Chris Ryan a cancer advocate to specifically serve the unique needs of those currently struggling with the disease. This new network combines databases of medical community knowledge, repositories of wisdom from cancer survivors, systems for helping cancer patients organize their records and various facets of their treatment, and tools that allow patients and their supporters to work together effectively. In short, Cancer.im provides everything a cancer patient, friend, or family member is looking for to help in the fight against the disease, all in one online location and easy-to-use format.”
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Newswire, 13 February 2010
HealthScienceChannel
“Patients, and providers alike, strive to make patient safety a priority. Whether it’s ensuring prescriptions are written and dispensed correctly, monitoring patients from a distance, or diagnosing patients in rural areas of the country, there are many ways to affect a patient’s safety.
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HealthScienceChannel
“Electronic Health Records, make patient safety a priority by ensuring prescriptions are written and dispensed correctly, monitoring patients from a distance, or diagnosing patients in rural areas of the country, there are many ways to affect a patient’s safety.
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Gilles Frydman, e-patients.net
“In a world with abundant, actionable health data – both from electronic medical records and our everyday observations – we will be empowered to make better decisions and our relationships with doctors may significantly change.”
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David Blumenthal, Healthcare IT News
“Today we announce the first cooperative agreement awards authorized by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. It marks a major milestone in our journey towards nationwide adoption and meaningful use of health information technology (health IT). One set of awards provides $386 million to 40 States and qualified State-Designated Entities to rapidly build capacity for exchanging health information across the health care system both within and between states through the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program.
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Bill Crounse, HealthBlog
“On January 27th, I posted a piece on HealthBlog titled A “right-sized” EMR? Tablet PC + Microsoft Office OneNote. I explained how many doctors who can’t afford or don’t like the well known, branded EMR solutions currently on the market, have turned to lower-priced, sometimes home-grown commodity solutions.
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