Twitter and Facebook can help conduct group patient visits
KevinMD.com
“There are some medical centers that are investing in the concept of group visits.
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RFID in Health Care—Dallas Report
RFID Journal
“Radio frequency identification is gaining a foothold in the health-care sector, with a growing number of hospitals, medical centers and health-care companies using the technology for asset tracking, patient monitoring and other applications. RFID in Health Care—Dallas 2010, RFID Journal’s fourth conference and exhibition for health-care professionals, was held on Jan. 28 at the Fairmont Hotel, in Dallas, Texas.
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The Mainstream Media is Noticing What a Mess e-Health is in Australia.
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“All I can say is that he is spot on. This fragmented, secretive and incoherent approach is utterly unacceptable.
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The Australian Department of Defence Plans to Do E-Health.
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“It is good to see e-health getting a serious look in – if only in, of all places, the Defence Department. I guess they know something the Health Department doesn’t!
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Health Canada slammed in eHealth audit
Dean Beeby, The Globe and Mail
“Health Canada handed out millions of dollars to a national eHealth agency without properly accounting for how the money was spent, a new audit says.
The finding raises doubts about Health Canada’s own record of accountability even as it conducts due diligence before deciding whether to give Canada Health Infoway Inc. another half-billion dollars.
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Health data quality – a two-edged sword
Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“Our health data is scattered – temporally and geographically; paper and electronic; on scraps in drawers and folders in filing cabinets; EHRs, EMRs, PHRs and research database silos; and distributed amongst a huge range of different providers, starting with our usual family physician and specialists but then extending to those forgotten emergency rooms; late night home visits; physiotherapists, dentists, naturopaths, iridologists and the myriad of others you have consulted over a lifetime.
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Health on the Net Foundation goes Web 2.0
Denise Silber, Health 2.0
“The subject of the quality of healthcare information on the Internet is rich and recurring. The main question we hear regularly is whether or not Internet users are finding quality health information. But it’s not the only one. There is also: how governments can/should protect citizens? And more recently, do Web 2.0 tools give users more power or make them more exposed to poor quality information?
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E-medical records goal of panel
Jan Biles, CJOnline
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently awarded more than $9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to the Kansas Health Information Exchange Project to help improve the exchange of health records at the state level.
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EHR Safety
Robert Kaye, Dr. Bob's HIT Thoughts
“Now is a good time to discuss EMR/EHR safety. The HIT Policy Committee Certification/Adoption Workgroup will be holding a public meeting on HIT Safety on February 25. An impressive group of experts has been assembled to present testimony on this important issue. Much of the literature on EHR safety to date suggests that electronic record systems are safer than a paper-based approach.
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MGH death spurs review of patient monitors
Liz Kowalczyk, Boston Globe
“A Massachusetts General Hospital patient died last month after the alarm on a heart monitor was inadvertently left off, delaying the response of nurses and doctors to the patient’s medical crisis.
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Texas docs grow more bullish on EHRs, survey finds
Andis Robeznieks, ModernHealthcare
“Physician use of electronic health records continued to grow in Texas last year, with younger doctors and primary-care physicians leading the charge with indirect access specialists—such as anesthesiologists and emergency medicine doctors—lagging behind, according to a survey by the Texas Medical Association.
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Handheld Electronic Medical Records
“A handheld electronic medical record is the modern way of maintaining patient records through a computerized system. It is usually employed in health organizations like hospitals and doctor’s surgery.
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Internet en Chile – buscando oportunidades en Salud 2.0
Medicina Código Abierto
“Ver este video me pone tan estúpidamente orgulloso de mi país… Chile es efectivamente un pionero en conectividad en Latinoamérica, con una penetración de Internet, banda ancha, y telefonía móvil por encima de la mayoría de los países de la región.
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Relaxing Meaningful Use? Not Really
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“While it is easy to understand why the federal government would like to use some form of quantifiable measurements (MU rules) to insure that it is indeed getting its money’s worth for this multi-billion dollar investment in HIT, stepping back, one really has to wonder if this is truly the best approach and the best use of precious tax-payer dollars. It is increasingly looking like what HITECH is creating is yet another layer of bureaucracy, truly a jobs bill (isn’t that what the Stimulus bill was all about anyway), that will ultimately have very little impact on the costs and delivery of care for the incentives are misaligned.
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Monitoring the Elderly
Bob Emmerson, M2M
“As Editorial Director Peggy Smedley pointed out in her editorial [It’s Not About the Phones, Sept./Oct., 2009] the national cellular carriers are “Getting serious about the M2M space for the first time.” That’s good news. In this column I’ll be looking at an innovative application that’s been developed by a vendor that markets communications kits to carriers. That’s very unusual news in the space.
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Sensors Never Sleep
M2M
“Imagine a job that involved sitting in front of a refrigerator 24 hours a day and checking its temperature every five minutes. It is doubtful many people would apply. Plus, what organization would want to spend the money on that person’s salary? It might be nice to be sure the temperature in the refrigerator remained constant, but is it really worth it in the scheme of things? How much would the owner be out if just one refrigerator breaks?
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‘Core measures’ at center of health IT debate
Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
“The Health IT Policy Committee has asked the CMS to drop the three so-called “core measures” from its proposed rule on “meaningful use,” but that’s not to say the committee has a problem with another group of core measures used by the Joint Commission, the CMS and the Hospital Quality Alliance quality measures reporting programs.
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Developing Countries See Promise in E-Health; Challenges Remain
Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat
“When you think of developing countries, health IT might not be the first thing that comes to mind. In some developing countries, per person spending on health care is as low as $10 annually so it wouldn’t be surprising if high-tech health tools weren’t a priority.
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Using scribes sets industry ‘back almost 40 years’
Ann Farrell, Modern Healthcare
“The idea we’d spend more money, add steps/inefficiencies and introduce new potential for errors (opposite of electronic health-record goals) via scribes or “audios to transcribers” sets the industry back almost 40 years when physicians first used computerized physician-order entry successfully and happily—and we’re touting scribes and audio to “ease” the transition”? When will physicians take over from these scribes?
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When mobile becomes a lifestyle device
Neeraj Roy, RedIff Business
“The four-day GSMA Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona has been successful in showcasing opportunities for the mobile industry. We are beginning to see a paradigm shift in the way consumers are using a mobile device. It is moving beyond basic functionalities and becoming a lifestyle device.
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