Articles
Dave deBronkart, Vince Kuraitis, David C. Kibbe, e-CareManagement
“So far this series has looked at HITECH participation by hospitals (grumbling but in the game) and physicians (wary, on the sidelines), kudos for ONC’s three major policy points, and how HITECH is already moving the needle on the vendor side. Today we’re going to look at the reason the whole system exists: patients.
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29 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Disruptive, Innovation, Patient
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Getting clinicians and other end users involved in the selection, implementation and training of an EMR is a key component to successful provider adoption, but Oroville Hospital in northern California has taken clinician participation to a new level.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Hospitals, Open Source
GLGroup
“The FDA asserts its authority to regulate medical software as a “device” following some bad patient care outcomes in the radiation therapy, radiology, and other arenas.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Devices, Radiology, Software
Mary Stevens, CMIO
“For a short time last week, the ANIA/CARING annual conference in Boston became an informal HIE progress report from some of the savviest health IT users on the front lines. During a presentation that discussed the role of nursing informatics in the HITECH Act activities, nursing informaticists from across the U.S. weighed in.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Hospitals
aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Durante el evento de Salud 2.0 hice referencia a la mentalidad hacker aplicada a la Medicina. Los ingenieros de la Universidad Rutgers han tomado este concepto de forma literal y han hackeado una Play Station 3. El objetivo, ayudar a jóvenes que sufren parálisis cerebral a mejorar sus funciones motoras manuales.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Adolescents, Autism, games, Stroke, Telemedicine, Telerehabilitation
Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“The chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has said the National Programme for IT in the NHS has “put back the contribution of IT in the NHS by more than ten years.”
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Implementation
Janine Budding, Medicalfacts
“De apotheek in Atrium MC is als eerste ziekenhuis in de Benelux gestart met het gebruik van een ‘allesrobot’. De robot bundelt per dagdeel en per patiënt de medicijnen zoals tabletten, spuiten of capsules. De allesrobot is aangeschaft in het kader van patiëntveiligheid.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | Tags: Hospitals, Medication, pharmacist, Robot, Safety
Gienna Shaw, Indidge
“Forget flying cars, cities crisscrossed with moving sidewalks, and unisex body suits made of silver lame. Instead, get ready for an explosion in smart medical devices, infection-fighting nanotechnology, virtual biopsies and colonoscopies, bionic organs, and operating rooms that could serve as a backdrop for a science fiction movie. These and other medical breakthroughs are more than cool.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Costs, Devices, Hospitals, Imaging, Nanotechnology, Virtual, Wireless
James M. Connolly, Mass High Tech
“Several New England executives are active in regional and national initiatives to advance health information technology and electronic medical records. One is Dr. John D. Halamka, who serves as chief information officer of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Technology, Meaningful Use
John Gever, KevinMD
“The Department of Veterans Affairs’ long-term investment in healthcare information technology paid off at a rate of more than $500 million in net annual benefits from 2001 to 2007, researchers said.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Health Information Technology, Hospitals
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“About $640 million has been made available, courtesy of the government’s stimulus package, to establish regional extension centers intended to help small practices adopt and become meaningful users of health information technology.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Implementation
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Nearly half of women seeking health answers online do so first, before talking to their doctors or family members, according to a Harris Interactive poll, conducted on behalf of iVillage, an online community for women.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Internet, Medical Information, Online Communities, social-network, Women
Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“In Part I of this series, we introduced the problem of racial disparities in the US health system, and provided examples in which electronic health records (EHRs) improved care for medical conditions that disproportionately impact blacks and Hispanics.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Disparities, Meaningful Use
HealthTech Wire
“The Ministry of Health and Sports in France has officially named Carestream Health as an approved host for personal health data and the first medical imaging company to receive accreditation.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | Tags: Data Storage, Image, Industry
mcg, HospitalDigital
“El Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha extenderá a toda la Comunidad el programa de Teledermatología, denominado DERCAM, el cual ha demostrado una elevada eficacia para el diagnóstico dermatológico a distancia, sin que existan diferencias en la fiabilidad diagnóstica al compararse con las consultas convencionales de presencia.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Teledermatology, Telemedicine
aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Una reciente revisión de cómo las nuevas TIC sanitarias están cambiando rápidamente la relación médico-paciente, Scientific American dedica parte de su artículo a los potenciales contras de la transición.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Health Information Technology
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired Magazine and author of The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine discusses the impact of social media on health-related decisions with Susannah Fox, Associate Director of Digital Strategy at the Pew Internet & American Life Project and co-author of the study, Chronic Disease and the Internet.”
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Country: United States | Tags: Social Media
NextGenWeb
“In a panel focused on telemedicine at the Broadband Properties Summit 2010, two major themes emerged – access and cost savings.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Telemedicine
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Identifying patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease through electronic primary care records would be just as effective in preventing CVD as the universal screening programme proposed by the government, researchers have concluded.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | EHR: EHR | Tags: Cardiology
Darren Pauli, Computerworld Australia
“Paramedics are divided on the benefits of an electronic Patient Care Record (ePCR) system that is replacing old paper-based notes across Australia.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tags: Paramedics
