Chris Rickert, Wisconsin State Journal
“From the annals of “How Technology Won’t Save Us.” (Also see: “Why the United States Should Just For God’s Sake Go Ahead and Adopt a Single-Payer, Universal Health Care System Already”):
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Stephanie Baum, MedCity News
“It’s a popular sport among startups and the mobile vendor community to figure out what physicians are willing to do on their tablets and smartphones. It has to be said that some of them have come up with some pretty compelling approaches to deepen the relationship between physicians and their mobile devices.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, Healthcare Info Security
“The Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance urging medical device manufacturers to develop cybersecurity controls in the design phase of their product development.
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Kyle Murphy, EHR Intelligence
“The push for the adoption of electronic health records, especially the meaningful use of certified EHR technology as part of the EHR Incentive Programs, is based on the premise that the digitization of health information will led to more accurate, safer, and coordinated care. While EHR adoption will certainly lessen the role of paper records and documents in clinical settings, it will eliminate them altogether. Paper still floats around healthcare organizations and between providers. Paper documents came in from external sources. Patient registration forms require handwriting.
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Scott Mace, HealthLeaders Media
“The change from fee-for-service to coordinated care is challenging providers to solve a longstanding need to identify patients more precisely to avoid waste, fraud, and substandard care.
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DoctorsLounge
“Caregivers of children receiving care in an urban pediatric primary care setting frequently use digital technologies, according to a study published online June 10 in Pediatrics.
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DeMartini TL et al. Pediatrics, 2013
OBJECTIVE:
Digital technologies offer new platforms for health promotion and disease management. Few studies have evaluated the use of digital technology among families receiving care in an urban pediatric primary care setting.
METHODS:
A self-administered survey was given to a convenience sample of caregivers bringing their children to 2 urban pediatric primary care centers in spring 2012. The survey assessed access to home Internet, e-mail, smartphone, and social media (Facebook and Twitter). A “digital technology” scale (0–4) quantified the number of available digital technologies and connections. Frequency of daily use and interest in receiving medical information digitally were also assessed.
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“The complexities of clinical quality measures in the 2014 Edition of the electronic health records meaningful use program may outweigh potential benefits as the measures are beyond the ability of many EHR vendors and providers to comply with.
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Coakley MF et al, Big Data, 2013
The era of “big data” presents immense opportunities for scientific discovery and technological progress, with the potential to have enormous impact on research and development in the public sector. In order to capitalize on these benefits, there are significant challenges to overcome in data analytics.
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The Observer
“Despite a stable political environment and increasing levels of social and economic development, our health sector still lags behind in terms of telemedicine compared to their counterparts in developed countries.
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Malta Independent Online
“A rollout of mobile healthcare (mHealth) technology across the EU could help save as much as €99 billion in healthcare costs by 2017, according to the findings of a new report by GSMA, a grouping of mobile technology stakeholders, and PwC, with ageing populations and rising numbers of people suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes creating hardships for European governments.
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News-Medical.net
“The GSMA today published research that demonstrates the significant socio-economic impact that mHealth adoption will have in Europe. Findings reveal that mHealth could save almost €100 billion in healthcare costs in the EU by 2017 as well as add €93 billion in GDP.
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Guillaume Parodi, L'Atelier
“L’envoi d’appareils mobiles possédant des capacités de monitorage, appareils intelligents, smartphones, tablettes, atteindraient les 515 millions de produits en 2017 contre 107 millions en 2012.
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Jennifer Bresnick, EHR Intelligence
“You can order all your coding workbooks, schedule your physician lectures, hand out ICD-10 lollipops by the dozen, and nag your vendors until you’re blue in the face, but the chances of your hospital being fully prepared for ICD-10 without a strong project plan and central leadership are slim at best.
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“The 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act provides the Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) with the authority to establish programs to improve health care quality, safety, and efficiency through the implementation of health IT, including electronic health record technology (“EHR Technology”).
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Anthony Brino, PhysBizTech
“As of early 2012, only about 10 percent of U.S. physicians were meeting meaningful use standards with their digital health record systems, according to a survey published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Andrew M. Seaman, Reuters
“Despite the U.S. government offering hefty financial incentives to doctors for using electronic records to assess the care they provide, a new study says few doctors met the program’s criteria last year.
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Matthew Mientka, Medical Daily
“Forty-three percent of American doctors now use an electronic health records (EHR) system, though only a quarter them leverage the data in aggregate for more meaningful assessment of care.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Black Book Rankings, which publishes customer satisfaction survey results for a wide range of industries, shared the results of national surveys of EHR vendors, hospital CIOs, and physicians in the US that found a very strong demand for mobile apps for EHRs.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The volume of scientific research about mobile healthcare technology has grown as the field itself has exploded, but the quality and focus of academic studies has not kept pace with the speed of innovation, a review of 10 years’ worth of published literature suggests.
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