Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“New telehealth initiatives across the country are starting to address critical shortages of many medical specialists, helping provide care to patients who previously didn’t have access.
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Jaan Sidorov, Disease Management Care Blog
“As a former New Yorker, the Disease Management Care Blog has always had an abiding respect for the Big Apple’s taxi drivers. That increased considerably after it left its wallet in a Manhattan cab and it turned up in Virginia a year later – in the possession of an individual allegedly involved in organized crime.
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David Blumenthal, Health IT Buzz Blog
“As I write, physicians throughout the United States are deciding whether to become meaningful users of electronic health records by 2011 when Medicare and Medicaid start making extra payments to meaningful users. For some the decision may be pretty simple. Almost 200,000 doctors already have adopted EHRs and are using them at a basic or sophisticated level. For these physicians, the journey to meaningful use, and its financial and clinical rewards, may be comparatively short. Many other doctors, however, remain undecided.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“An group advising the Health & Human Services Department on privacy matters is wrestling with determining at what point in a health information exchange it becomes necessary for providers to obtain consumer consent to approve the transaction.
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Victor Patterson, Telecare Aware
“If you think telehealth/telemedicine is too easy in the UK and you’d like a real challenge, my advice is to try Nepal.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The push for adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), stimulated in part by the federal stimulus funding to physicians who can demonstrate “meaningful use of certified EHR technology,” leaves physicians with a dizzying array of choices.
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Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“I had such a clever idea for this week’s column: I would test a number of free online personal health record sites and write about the experience. About four and a half hours into my research—with only one prescription and a list of the vitamins I take daily entered into just one online PHR site—I realized that I would have to either abandon the project or abandon all hope of meeting my deadline.
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Hospital IT Europe
“From the knowledge that’s in informatics, it’s clear the profession has the potential to support the transformation of the NHS and help deliver more for less in an evidence-based way. When informatics is done well, it saves lives.
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Camille Tuutti, ExecutiveGov
“National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Blumenthal wants healthcare providers in rural areas to be an early focus for health IT extension centers, and setting up “beacon communities” will help those providers with better access to broadband connections, Government Health IT reports.
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Rahul K. Parikh, Salon
“A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine by Harvard doctors Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband fired up a decade-long debate about patients who use the Internet to learn about their health.
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Phil Baumann
“I’m not a fan of buzzwords: not only do they tire with time but they also constrict discussion and usually end up being the object of unimaginative and disconnected marketing efforts.
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Hyung-Jin Kim, AJC
“North Korea formally launched a medical videoconference network Tuesday aimed at giving smaller, rural hospitals access to specialists in the capital Pyongyang with the help of the World Health Organization.
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Zhao J et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(3)
Data sharing and information exchange among medical institutions is a requirement for convenient and effective data availability for both healthcare professionals and patients. In this paper, the characteristics of medical data are studied; two mainstream technologies of data storage for medical information are compared, and three strategies of medical documents storage are described with detailed advantages and disadvantages.
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Pakyurek M et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(3)
The literature on the efficacy of telepsychiatry for assessing and treating children and adolescents with mental health problems is still developing, but there is evidence that telepsychiatry is diagnostically valid, and that there is high patient and provider satisfaction. Outcome studies are awaited, with the assumption that telepsychiatry has to demonstrate at least as good outcomes and reliability as face-to-face psychiatric care.
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Zhao J et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(3)
China started to pay more attention to the construction of a regional and national health information network after the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003. The construction of a public health system is considered the most important part of national medical reform, with information and computer technology serving as the key to deploying regional collaborative medical service, also known as e-health.
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Giakoumaki A et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(3)
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During the last few years, wireless networks have been increasingly used both inside hospitals and in patients’ homes to transmit medical information. In general, wireless networks suffer from decreased security. However, digital watermarking can be used to secure medical information. In this study, we focused on combining wireless transmission and digital watermarking technologies to better secure the transmission of medical images within and outside the hospital.
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Kifle M et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(3)
The study of the adoption of information technology (IT) by individuals has taken two approaches, one emphasizing rationalistic goal-oriented behavior and the other focusing on poignant forces that influence an individual’s reaction to a new IT. These approaches are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Individuals’ acceptance and subsequent usage of a new IT is predicated on both. Additionally, the tendency in past studies has been to examine either the rational or the poignant factors in the context of a “resource-rich” environment-one in which there is an abundance of IT, adequate infrastructure, and a high level of acculturation to technology solutions. Consequently, there is a clear need for the examination of these factors in resource-poor environments, where assumptions on technology abundance and technology culturation do not hold. We empirically test a model that explains the intention of physicians in a resource-poor environment (epitomized by rural Ethiopia) to adopt telemedicine systems.
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STC
“Scientific Technologies Corporation (STC) has released their iPhone immunization tracking application, My Immunization Record (MyIR™).
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“For those concerned about the digital divide growing wider and deeper with the push for EHR adoption among providers, have no fear.
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Terence Corcoran, National Post
“In summary, the report concluded that Canada’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) program, as implemented so far by Infoway and the provinces, has no overall cost controls, no total cost estimate, no numbers on total costs to date, no way of measuring benefits, no way of determining whether budgets are being met, has lacked strategic planning, has a high risk of not achieving objectives, and there are questions about how the project will be funded through to the end.
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