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PhysOrg
‘In an essay in the February 2010 issue of Health Affairs, a special issue of the journal devoted to global e-health, William Tierney, M.D., of Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, and colleagues, who like Dr. Tierney have significant experience in the development of workable health information technology systems in low-income countries, identify critical steps toward allowing developing countries to cross the “digital divide” to realize the full potential of e-health to improve the quality and efficiency of their health care systems.
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17 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Kenya, United States | EHR: EHR | Tags: Developing Countries, Health Information Technology, HIV, OpenMRS
Dan Bowman, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Healthcare providers will increase their use of telehealth technology dramatically within the next two years, with the number of gateways used in telehealth applications surging past 1 million by 2014
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17 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth, Telehealth
AAFP News Now
“A recent study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change, or HSC, reveals a gap between what the federal government hopes health information technology, or health IT, can achieve in terms of patient care coordination and how well the technology actually assists physicians in practice.
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17 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) announced Tuesday that it has extended its contract with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through April 30, 2010.
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17 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Adoption, Interoperability, Standards
Paul Webster, CMAJ
“The federal government’s failure to release $500 million in promised funding has slowed the next phase of the multibillion-dollar national effort to implement electronic health records (EHRs), says Canada Health Infoway President Richard Alvarez.
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17 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Adoption
Jeff Horvath, HFI Connect
“As anyone who hasn’t been under a rock for the past year and a half knows, health care reform is a hot topic. Many have made the argument that reforming the health care system is key to the US’s economic recovery, and one of the key ways to realizing that the path to reform is through better use of health care IT systems. President Obama explicitly called this out in his inauguration speech.
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17 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA
Mark Metherell, Brisbane Times
“The promise that patients will control their medical records in the federal government’s proposed electronic health system remains uncertain despite the introduction of ”foundation” e-health legislation.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tags: Access, Identifiers
Remedeo, Jaibobola
An overview in numbers of the development/history of e-health.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: e-Health
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“Some news in the world of Health 2.0 today where the worlds of patient communities and tracking tools come ever closer. (Those of you following my Health 2.0 “bubbles” chart know that “social networks” and “tools” are integrating. You can see more in the free exec sum of our report The Past & Future of Health 2.0).
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Online Communities, Tracking
PRWeb
“Thinklabs is pleased to announce Stethoscope App for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, a medical application that works with Thinklabs’ patented, performance leading, ds32a Digital Stethoscope.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Applications, Cardiology, mHealth
Roy Mark, eWeek
“In what Health Discovery says is a first-ever breakthrough, it nears completion of a mobile app that would allow a person to take an image of a mole, lesion or birthmark and receive immediate feedback for a risk assessment for melanoma.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, Dermatology, mHealth
“Now is when the rubber meets the road. For most of 2009, vendors, hospital leaders, consultants and other industry experts professed to know what it will take to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records. But then the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in December issued its proposed rule. As IT experts read through the 500-plus pages, it became clear where the federal government was setting the bar and how far providers had to climb.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use
John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’ve often seen people compare the adoption of IT in healthcare with the banking industry’s adoption of IT. Many have wondered why the banking industry (and so many other industries) has adopted IT when healthcare is still sitting here with such low adoption levels. As I’ve thought about the difference, one thing is very clear. Both healthcare IT and banking have/had major challenges in order to implement IT in their industry.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Health Information Technology
Hein Bosman, ICTzorg
“Een van de felste tegenstander van invoering van het landelijk EPD is VVD senator Heleen Dupuis. Het liberale Eerste Kamerlid was tijdens de expertmeeting over het EPD in de Eerste Kamer dan ook zeer kritisch. Maar wat blijkt uit het verslag van die meeting: “Ik spreek over een onderwerp waarvan ik werkelijk geen verstand heb”, aldus Dupuis.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Implementation
Andrea Kraynak, HealthLeaders Media
“It has now been a month since the CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology published the interim final rule for EHR certification standards and the proposed rule on the EHR Meaningful Use Incentive Program and meaningful use standards. Another rule proposing the EHR certification process and organizations designated to conduct EHR certification is also expected early this year.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Incentives, Meaningful Use
Cole Petrochko, KevinMD.com
“Just over half of U.S. adults under 65 used the Internet to look up health information over the course of a year, according to the first National Health Interview Survey to collect data on health information technology.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information, Internet
Jyunichi Ooshita, Nikkei Electronics
“Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the University of Yamanashi and the Information Technology Center of the University of Tokyo conducted a field test of an ophthalmology telemedicine system developed by the University of Yamanashi.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Japan | Tags: Ophthalmology, Telemedicine
eHealthServer
“A plethora of devices and applications, some converging from the consumer electronics world, are coming onto the market and are being recommended by doctors and health insurers to help us all monitor our health and wellness. These tools, called “personal health systems” (PHS), are a key element of the growth of eHealth in Europe. Their full benefit can only be realised if they are interoperable – that is, if a device from one vendor works easily and seamlessly with other eHealth applications.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tags: Devices, e-Health, Interoperability, Personal Health Systems
Helena Spongenberg, EUobserver
“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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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | EHR: EHR | Tags: Benefits, e-Health, Health Information Technology, Privacy
AarkStore
“Healthcare providers in Europe are facing incongruous challenges, including an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases or long-term conditions, while having to meet an overriding need to reduce costs and maintain high quality healthcare. These necessities fuel the demand for e-health IT in general, and electronic health records (EHR) in particular, but also create a new set of challenges, especially in the field of data protection. Western European countries have deployed EHR solutions for some time, with local players still having a strong position in the local markets.
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16 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | EHR: EHR | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Elderly
