Greg Bartlett, Medical Smartphones
“A few years ago, a Fire-Rescue Department paramedic in San Diego developed a simple smartphone application called TapChart that replaced the bubble-field data forms completed by first responders after an incident.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“It is always fun to go back and look at what was happening on the blog a year or so ago and see how we are going at getting things right and wrong. Note dates of articles in bold.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“Image Analysis, the company that specialises in developing computer-aided algorithms for MRI data analysis, is calling on the NHS to adopt its technology, which is widely used in the rest of Europe.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“GP leaders have joined the attack on the roll-out of the Summary Care Record, calling for an immediate halt to the roll-out and an urgent discussion of the issues with the Department of Health and NHS Connecting for Health.
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eHealthNews.EU
“Eric Maurincomme, speaking in his role as Chairman of COCIR Healthcare IT Committee, the voice of the European Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry, has stated during his participation at eHealth week in Barcelona that, in this industry, true innovation always comes from small and medium enterprises, as a result of researchers’ work in tackling a specific problem posed to their organization.
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EcontentMag.com
“ABC News Digital announced a partnership with health information services provider Healthline Networks.
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EcontentMag.com
“Two documents from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) aim to provide internationally harmonized guidelines for archiving patient information.
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Paul Webster, CMAJ
“Two years after Barack Obama’s presidential campaign pledge to vastly increase usage of electronic health records (EHRs), the White House is following through.
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Geoff Nairn, Financial Times
“Healthcare is beginning to shake off its Cinderella image after lagging behind other sectors both in levels of IT investment and in its perception of IT as a strategic tool.
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Lauren Biron, OCLNN
“Doctors are always looking for the next technological marvel to help them treat patients more effectively, whether it’s robots that can find cancer cells or medical records on iPhones.
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Sarah Murray, Financial Times
“The potential of the mobile phone to transform healthcare in the developing world has been sparking enthusiastic debate among communications industry professionals.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The Commonwealth Fund released a report on the usage of EMRs in Denmark. All primary care physicians (PCPs) use EMRs and 98 percent can manage their patients electronically. Usage went from 15 percent in the early 1990s to more than 90 percent by 2000. The keys to success are a coherent national policy, financial incentives to adopt health IT and technical support for providers, according to the report.
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Last week in this space, I wrote about the importance of a master patient index or other form of reliable patient identifier as key to making health information exchange work.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“Now let’s look at healthcare IT projects, to be more particular, implementing an electronic health records system, an EHR system. When you pictured the implementation in your mind, when you studied the implementation plan it painted a nice picture. All the pieces made sense—sort of like the picture on the left.
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Anthony Guerra, HealthsystemCIO.com
“While a number of HIT-related patient safety issues can be traced to system usability, network stability, and end-user competence with the application in question, few are attributable to traditional software “bugs,” according to Marc Probst and Paul Egerman, HIT Policy Committee Members and co-chairs of a special hearing on such issues.
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mcg, Hospital Digital
“La semana pasada tuvi lugar la Barcelona eHealth Week 2010 (15‐18 marzo), oportunidad única para compartir y asistir en directo a las presentaciones de destacados expertos del mundo de la sanidad y de la eSalud, procedentes de los cinco continentes, tanto del sector público como del privado. Estos expertos hablaron de las iniciativas más recientes, de realidades, de expectativas y del impacto de las TIC en salud.
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eHealthNews.EU
“The International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) announced a collaborative agreement to advance terminology harmonization and foster interoperability in health information systems.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“The weekend was bookended by good and bad news for athenahealth, Inc., the provider of Web-based billing software and services for physician practices.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“Over the next four years, the amount of personal medical information online will increase exponentially, opening up new avenues for hackers to expose personal data that, unlike financial information, can result in a permanent violation of privacy.
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Linda Davidson, e-Health Insider
“Britain’s population is ageing and we are just starting to see the effects. In the past five years, the first of the ‘baby boomers’ – the generation born immediately after the Second World War – have started to collect their pensions.
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