Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Henry Ford Hospital researchers took electronic medical records onto the marathon route last year to show that the technology could make it easier to care for runners. The researchers presented the results recently at the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine’s annual meeting in Mexico.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News Priming the Pump
“A new report on the challenges presented by the first stage of Meaningful Use (MU) compliance provides a good road map for healthcare providers making the transition to new HIT.
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Jolein de Rooij, Computable
Vanaf 2009 is het St. Antonius Ziekenhuis in Utrecht zoveel mogelijk overgestapt op open source software. De kosten van advisering, migratie en opleiding die hierbij kwamen kijken, zijn nu al terugverdiend aan bespaarde licenties, aldus het ziekenhuis. Het project Antonius Open! is dan ook een voorbeeldproject geworden voor het programmabureau Nederland Open in Verbinding (NOiV).
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“The process of handing out HITECH stimulus could hit the medical device market.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“Communication between health care providers’ accounts for the major part of the information flow in health care setting, and errors in communication may contribute to adverse clinical events and outcomes. Therefore effective, efficient and rapid communication among patients, nurses, and physicians is a critical in delivering high quality health care. Existing communication technologies such as mobile telephones, voice mail, and email may significantly improve delivery of health care.
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Medical News Today
“Increasing the use of quality measurement as part of electronic health records (EHR) systems is critical to achieving meaningful use of health information technology, the American College of Physicians (ACP) reported in a paper released today at the 129,000-member organization’s annual meeting.
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Telecare Aware
“A paper presented at the 2010 Second International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles in February confirms what has long been suspected: people with pendant alarms (medical alerts/PERS) wear them less often than would be optimal for their safety.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“A federal health information technology policy work group has called for the creation of a national monitoring program for patient safety problems stemming from the use of a broad range of healthcare IT systems.
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Jonathan Richman, Dose of Digital
“Many of you commented about my past post, “I’ll Build You an iPhone Medication Tracker App for $10,” and today’s post is related to that one. While I said that I could build you a tracker for $10, I didn’t say it would be good or that people would use it. That’s the rub with these trackers, in order for them to work, people have to use them. Who knew?
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Pauline W. Chen, The New York Times
“One afternoon several years ago, I found myself faced with an unexpected challenge while seeing patients in clinic. The hospital had just put in effect an electronic medical records system, or EMR, and along with the dozens of shiny new computer terminals installed in nursing stations on every ward came the promise of fewer missing charts, streamlined information and efficient work-flow patterns for all.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“NHS organisations are hoping to go-ahead with the roll-out of the Summary Care Record, despite the Department of Health’s announcement that it should be suspended.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“In an online world where people empower themselves by gathering information over the Internet, a new study shows that online access for adults living with chronic disease is significantly less when compared with healthy individuals.
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Anthony Guerra, HealthSystemCIO
“Safety concerns took center stage at the HIT Policy Committee meeting today in Washington, D.C., as Certification and Adoption Workgroup Co-chairs Paul Egerman and Marc Probst reported their recommendations on those issues to the full committee.
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Hospital IT Europe
“Autonomy Corporation plc Kainos today announced the launch of Evolve, a next-generation Electronic Document Management solution which enables instant and secure access to patient medical records through Autonomy’s unique Meaning Based Computing solutions.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek
“Safety concerns took center stage at the Health IT Policy Committee meeting yesterday in Washington, D.C.
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“No me cansaré de repetir que la HCE es una herramienta excelente para mejorar el Sistema Sanitario. Del mismo modo, seguiré insistiendo en que es necesario tener en cuenta determinados factores técnicos y humanos a la hora de implementar estos sistemas ya que generalmente requieren cambios en el proceso laboral del personal sanitario.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“As Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems become more widespread, issues of poor design, and the consequences of that, take on a higher profile. This is especially true in hospital systems, which often are built using legacy, locally-installed client/server technology, geared to being self-contained (rather than interoperable).
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“Interop” (interoperation, interoperability) is about how your health data will move from one doctor to another. It’s a big deal, because it affects how well doctors can coordinate our care, and in an emergency whether everyone can see what they need to know … to save your life.
Or your mother’s life. Or your child’s.
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Denise Silber's Blog
“Is a keynote speech necessarily the highpoint of the conference for the audience? When the speaker is an international celebrity, if nothing else, the audience will have had the pleasure of seeing the speaker in person.
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