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SEIS
“El vicepresidente de la Sociedad Española de Informática de la Salud ha señalado que el acuerdo entre el Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social y esta Sociedad tiene como objetivo “establecer las condiciones que regirán las futuras colaboraciones entre ambas partes y que estén orientadas a la promoción y difusión de los sistemas de información dirigidos a la Sanidad”.
El convenio firmado “también nos compromete a estar al tanto y analizar todas las novedades y tendencias que vayan apareciendo con objeto de elaborar informes, publicaciones y la organización de sesiones de trabajo”, ha señalado Arribas. También el Ministerio y la SEIS colaborarán activamente y de manera especial durante el I semestre del año en curso en la promoción de proyectos y logros TIC en Europa, Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos.”
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SEIS, 29 March 2010
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Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Health Information Technology
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“A survey of clients by electronic data interchange vendor NaviNet Inc. shows mixed results on whether meaningful use incentive payments are driving electronic health records adoption among small physician practices.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use
Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
“Hospitals and doctors should be required to report data glitches that create “hazards and near-misses” that affect patient safety to a national patient safety organization starting in 2013, according to recommendations proposed today by a Health and Human Services Department advisory workgroup.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Patient Safety, Reporting
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The government’s goal to provide every citizen with an electronic medical record by 2014 is not likely to be met, according to Dr. Kip Webb, who leads Accenture’s clinical transformation practice.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Implementation
Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“The Certification/Adoption Workgroup met on March 29, 2010. Following up on the previousMarch 12, 2010 meeting and the February 25, 2010 meeting, the committee reviewed the revised set of recommendations to the ONC, and discussed concerns expressed about the potential for increased FDA regulation of EHR systems and possible ways that the ONC and FDA could possibly collaborate.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Certification, Patient Safety
KevinMD.com
“A personal health record (PHR) has been touted as a way for patients to better keep track of their health information. Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault lead the way. But what happens if the company storing your data gets bought, goes bankrupt, or simply decides to discontinue their system?
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, phr
Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Much of the literature on medical errors has focused on medication administration and adherence to clinical guidelines for various procedures. Though misdiagnosis remains a huge problem in medicine, it has received less attention.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Diagnostic Errors, Documentation, Medical Errors
Lyndsay Moss, Scotsman
“Thousands of NHS staff not directly involved in the treatment of patients have access to confidential records in Scotland, a report claims today.
Research by Big Brother Watch, a campaign by the TaxPayers’ Alliance , asked health authorities across the UK how many “non-medical personnel” had access to patient records.
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Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Confidentiality
ICTZorg
“De LHV heeft bedongen dat voor de patiënt direct duidelijk wordt wie hem heeft aangemeld bij het landelijk schakelpunt (LSP).
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Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Communication, Patient
BiomedME
“Electronic prescribing refers to the use of computing devices to enter, modify, review, and output or communicate drug prescriptions. In a basic electronic prescribing system, clinicians review, enter, manage, and sign prescriptions using a computer, instead of writing them on paper.
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Categories: News | Tags: e-prescribing
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Advocate Physician Partners (APP), the largest network of independent physicians in the Midwest, has partnered with Westborough, Mass.-based eClinicalWorks for one of the biggest electronic medical record (EMR) implementations in the country.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Hospitals, Implementation
Jean-Jacques Fraslin, i-med
“Au Canada, malgré des difficultés financières et techniques on commence à généraliser dans la “Belle Province”, le Dossier de Santé du Québec (DSQ).
Ce dossier de santé du Québec contiendra les renseignements essentiels au suivi médical. Les médecins, pharmaciens, infirmières pourront le consulter par le biais d’un réseau sécurisé. Le site officiel explique son objet : « Vous déménagez de Chicoutimi à Sherbrooke et consultez votre nouveau médecin traitant. Ou encore, lors de vacances en Gaspésie, vous avez oublié à Montréal l’ordonnance de renouvellement de vos médicaments. »
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Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Access, Consent, Implementation
Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“First, we need to define the terminology. Patient Portals are software or web services accessible in real time by both physicians and patients. Patient Portals come in two flavors: tethered to an EHR and untethered.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health 2.0, Patient, phr, Physicians, Portal, vendors
Steve Beller, Curing Healthcare
“In my previous post, I summarized a deep conversation I’ve been having with a group of knowledgeable people about PHRs. I then offered an innovative, low cost, uncomplicated solution to deal with the concerns others raised.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: phr
Steve Beller, Curing Healthcare
“I’ve been involved recently in an interesting virtual discussion (at this link on LinkedIn) that focuses on personal health records (PHRs).
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: phr
Satish Misra, KevinMD
“The excitement and hype surrounding the announcement of Apple’s iPad have subsided for the time being, perhaps just a lull prior to the actual release in a few months. It’s expected that the iPad could make significant contributions to healthcare, such as potentially replacing the physician’s clipboard or medical textbooks.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Handheld
Joseph Kim, Medicine and Technology
“The world of HIT can be confusing enough – it helps if you understand of all the acronyms out there.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Technology
mcg, Hospital Digital
“El hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Barcelona es un Hospital visionario e innovador en implantación de TI no solo en sus procesos internos sino también de cara a la comunicación con el exterior mediante el uso de telemedicina, portal web dinámica y uso de la web 2.0.
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Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Health 2.0, Health Information Technology, Hospitals
Joseph Kim, Medicine and Technology
“The New York Times has an article titled, “Technology can improve healthcare.” This is actually an interesting topic because some would argue that recent advances in technology have done a disservice to the health care industry. Expensive tests may be diagnosing certain diseases earlier, but they are also being misused by many and this is causing health care costs to soar.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Communication, diagnose, Education, Health Information Technology
Medical News Today
“Tiny chemical sensors implanted into patients could help diagnose disease and track its progress, following a development by scientists.
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Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: diagnose, Implants, Sensors, Tracking
