Derek Allen, Wisebread
“I just graduated from FSU with a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology. During my time there, I had the opportunity to take Health Informatics taught by Ebrahim Randeree. It was an eye-opening experience that delved deep into all aspects of IT in the healthcare industry.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News - Priming the Pump
“One of the most widely cited justifications for pushing healthcare practitioners toward greater use of EHRs is that electronically accessible data will lead to better care for patients.
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Kevin Kruse, Kru Research
“How Pharma, Hospitals, and Public Health Organizations Can Use YouTube to Reach Patients and Caregivers.
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Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun
“One doesn’t need to read too far into the latest report from auditor-general John Doyle to discover why electronic health records should be a good thing for patients and medical professionals alike.
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International Business Times
“CapSite™ has announced the release of the 2010 U.S. Ambulatory EHR Study, a strategic analysis of the U.S. Ambulatory EHR market in response to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) Act.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“European health IT trade body COCIR has launched a telemedicine toolkit to support the creation of a stronger European telemedicine sector.
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CMIO
“The EHR adoption rate in U.S. medical offices is 36.1 percent, a 3.2 percent increase since February 2009, according to a report from health IT company SK&A, a Cegedim company.
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Denise Silber's Blog
“En 2007, nous étions peut-être quelques-uns en France, et en tous cas pas nombreux — à nous intéresser à la chose 2.0 chez les médecins et les patients… J’annonçais ci et là l’arrivée du 1er Congrès Santé 2.0 aux Etats-Unis et ma participation au suivant.
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Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog
“Modern information and communications technology, or e-health, has already significantly transformed health care in the developed world. The way in which in e-health has also begun to transform health care in the developing world, and the potential for e-health to vastly expand in low- and middle-income countries, was the subject of a National Press Club briefing held Tuesday in Washington, D.C., by Health Affairs. Video and handouts from the briefing will be available soon on the Health Affairs Web site.
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Helena Spongenberg, BusinessWeek
“Information technology applied to healthcare – broadly termed e-health – is set to revolutionise patient care and how healthcare systems can be structured and managed. However, different obstacles are standing in the way for Europe to truly embrace the digital reform of its healthcare systems.
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Sue Dunlevy, Southern Courier
“You are going to get a unique 16-digit health ID number on July 1 – whether you want one or not.
This is a despite a Rudd Government promise the new “e-health” system would be on an opt-in basis.
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Newswire.ca
“A bold new initiative soon to be implemented in federal prisons in Ontario will help to address the treatment needs for federal offenders with mental health issues.
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P. Vijian, Bernama
“A Bangladeshi company is taking telemedicine to an innovative level, by promoting medical care among its two million overseas workers, many of whom have limited access to decent healthcare.
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HealthCanal
“Moca, an MIT student organization, today announced the release of the Moca source code, a set of foundational building blocks for telemedicine and mHealth applications that use wireless networks to connect rural healthcare workers to urban-area specialists.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek , InformationWeek Healthcare
“The federal Health IT Policy Committee isn’t happy with the proposed definition of what constitutes the meaningful use of e-health records. But that doesn’t mean it’s getting any easier for healthcare providers to qualify for the stimulus funds that will reimburse them for EHR investments.
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Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online
“Two weeks ago, Apple unveiled its latest creation — the iPad. Apple’s take on the tablet computer is set to hit stores in April and, with its 9.7-inch full-color touchscreen, it’s expected to place a great deal of competitive pressure on existing e-books and netbooks. However, the jury is still out on how significant an impact the iPad will have on the healthcare industry. With several clinicians currently leveraging iPhones and other smartphones, some experts believe the iPad will be the catalyst that finally drives the healthcare community away from the desktop and toward point of care computing.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“In Mexico, it’s illegal for patients to access their own medical records, and 9.1 percent of Mexicans have an Internet connection at home. 80 percent of them have at least one cell phone.
Conditions like this don’t stifle innovation, they ignite it, and it’s one of the several reasons I think mHealth (“the use of wireless communication devices to support public health and clinical practice”) is different than eHealth (which I’m referring to as desktop Web/computer interaction in health/health care).
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“Revolution Health, the online consumer health venture launched in 2005 by AOL co-founder Steve Case, shut down its personal health record system in February, citing underutilization as the cause.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Local authorities are ill-prepared to cope with the demands of an ageing population and must look to telecare as one of a raft of measures to help them tackle those challenges, according to the Audit Commission.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“The introduction of a medical check list for the iPhone could be a benefit to providers as mobile technology is quickly being integrated into the care process.
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