Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Insider
“Eclipsys Corporation has announced an alliance with Microsoft that will see Eclipsys integrate Microsoft’s Amalga platform into its clinical software products, including Sunrise Clinical Manager.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Instead of recommending small adjustment to the Standards and Certification Interim Final Rule (IFR), the 10th meeting of the federal HIT Standards Committee was consumed by a fundamental, philosophical debate of just how specific the group should be in its regulations, and the nature of the regulatory process itself.
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Richard Staines, Pulse
“London LMCs have created an online information resource for GPs to ensure they are aware of roll-out of the Summary Care Record across the capital.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Members of the Health IT Standards Committee believe more federal clarification will be required surrounding patient access to their electronic health records (EHRs), as required under the interim final rule on standards and certification.
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Healthcare Informatics
“The New York/New Jersey Veterans Healthcare Network (VISN 3) has selected San Diego-based CliniComp’s Essentris ED and Essentris Critical Care solutions to improve quality, safety and outcomes at its emergency departments, intensive care and post anesthesia care units, the company says.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Two hospitals are leveraging a new interface to orchestrate message notifications sent to clinicians’ iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
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Francisco Jose Grajales III
“The first decade of the 21st century is here! For the agog-types, it is the infamous year of the White Tiger and the 21st Winter Olympic Games, which will take place in our beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“If the federal government wants healthcare providers to align their existing EHRs and EMRs with the meaningful use criteria, it needs to set an example on the federal level so the rest of the market can follow. The Indian Health Service (IHS) has stepped up to the plate in that regard.
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Denise Silber, Health 2.0
“Dr Bertalan Mesko, or Berci to his friends, is a recently-graduated Hungarian medical doctor, with whom I had the pleasure of blogging about geriatrics at IAGG 2009. Berci was then just beginning his PhD in clinical genomics.
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eHealthNews.EU
“iSOFT has completed the implementation of Lorenzo 3.5 across all surgical departments at St Jansdal Hospital, Netherlands, with the latest release providing tools for patient management, results reporting, requesting and advanced clinical data capture, for 96 nurses and ten surgeons currently.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Been a lot of talk over the last year or so regarding the move to smaller, more modular, substitutable apps (think iPhone) to address healthcare IT sector needs, particularly for providers. This discussion has progressed to the point where HHS, in looking to certify EHRs, is also looking at how these small modular EHR apps might also be certified in the broader context of meaningful use.
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Advance
“The push is on for health care providers to make the switch to electronic health records (EHRs) but it is hard to tell how well these complex health information technology systems are being implemented and used, writes a health informatics researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in a Feb. 3 commentary in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Denise Silbert, TalkStandards
“One of the barriers to the adoption of eHealth is the adoption of standards. And there are in turn unending barriers to the adoption of standards: legal, cultural, administrative, financial, organizational, and of course technical constraints not to omit the lack of incentives. Hence an interesting Norwegian paper by Riita Hellmann which speaks of “ubiquitous heterogeneity.”
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“With all the high profile initiatives in USA and Europe, it is tempting to think that e-health is a ‘western’ concept. While it is true that the idea of e-health is getting a lot of coverage in the West, it may actually arise earlier in emerging markets.
This is not as far-fetched as it first sounds.
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Business Wire
“PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading provider of Physician Information Technology, is working with NextGate to help healthcare organizations combine data from disparate systems to create a unified and complete record for each patient in their care.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“A recent survey of C-level executives from 168 provider organizations, mostly hospitals, shows only a third of respondents expect to meet the first deadline for receiving Medicare/Medicaid incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records.
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Art Chimes, VOA News
“Information technology has come more slowly to the area of health care perhaps than some other fields. But the field of e-health, as it’s called, is moving forward, and some of the most notable advances are happening in developing countries.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“Dr. Osler was a great physician and a great man. However, in America today medicine may be a calling and may be partly art, but it is also increasingly part science and, for many physicians in private practice, it must also be part business.
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“As I’ve noted recently, this Thursday I’m on a stakeholder panel at a meeting of the Adoption/Certification Workgroup, which is part of the Federal Health IT Policy Committee.
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PRWeb
“A recent study conducted by Nicholson Kovac, Inc. reveals some surprising findings about new media, including social media, use among nurses and physicians. Most are using their mobile phones for texting, and other applications for both personal and professional reasons.
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