Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council is urging the use of two-factor authentication with smart card technology as a way to protect against medical identity theft.
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John Farrell, Healthcare IT News
“A new wireless technology is being touted as the missing link needed to join patients, providers and the health IT that promises to transform healthcare across the globe.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News Priming the Pump
“In a recent overview of how new HIT is rapidly changing the patient/doctor relationship, Scientific American takes the time to note some of the potential downsides of the transition.
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Anthony Guerra, HealthSystemCIO
“I am doing a project on EMRs for my graduate IT class at Xavier University in Cincinnati. My own topic centers on what happens to all the valuable data in the legacy paper records come day-forward? I read that many physician groups are simply scanning them into pdf format so they can be stored electronically, but this makes the files worthless from a data mining/ physician query standpoint.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Alexander H. Vo, PhD, Executive Director of the Center for Telehealth Research and Policy at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) described how telehealth technologies and mobile communications have helped the university face significant healthcare delivery challenges. He was speaking at a panel discussion held at Bookings Institution on April 19th held to discuss modern emergency preparedness activities.
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MedicExchange
“Various initiatives by the Polish Government, coupled with funding from the European Union (EU), have been driving the adoption of HIT systems by the healthcare sector.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“The SMS for Life program to combat malaria was launched with great fanfare in December by IBM, Vodafone and Novartis.
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Annet van Betuw, Medicalfacts
“E-health: voor de een is het bekend en een feit, voor de ander is het nieuw en een moderne toepassing, die vooral vragen oproept. Belangrijk bij e-health is dat de patiënt centraal staat. Zoals een van de sprekers zei: de medische sector moet de patiënt volgen en meer ‘e-health minded ‘ zijn.
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Rien Meijerink, Pieter Vos, RVZ
Advisory produced by the Council for Public Health and Health Care for the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport.
The internet has penetrated society to a very significant degree. Some ninety per cent of Dutch households are now ‘online’. Over the past ten years, people have taken to using the internet to find all sorts of information, including that relating to health and healthcare. For anyone with a health problem, the first step will often be to ‘ask Dr Google’. Almost one third of internet users report that they ‘always or generally’ use the internet to find relevant information before they contact their own general practitioner, while a quarter do so on their return from the doctor’s
surgery.
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Assumpta Bohigas, Clic-Austral
“Fue curioso ver la dinámica establecida en EEUU a diferencia de la dinámica europea, y que quedaba reflejada en la organización de los dos eventos. Los grandes proyectos Health 2.0, con repercusión internacional, se habían iniciado en EEUU a partir de iniciativas particulares.
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Lau Hesselbæk Andreasen, JBoye
“Interaction between patients and healthcare providers and between fellow patients is taking place on a growing number of (digital) platforms. Healthcare providers wish to enable the “engaged health citizens” to better manage their health conditions themselves.
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Jaibobola
“Les applications dédiées à la santé, au bien-être et aux soins “pillulent” sur l’Appstore… 2 catégories complémentaires co-existent “Forme et Santé” & “Médecine”. Quelles sont les opportunités pour ce nouveau marché ?
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Janine Budding, Medicalfacts
“De afdeling KNO van het UMC Utrecht start dit jaar met ‘Telemedicine à la carte’ ™. Elke week kunnen co- en artsassistenten kiezen welke operaties, uitgevoerd in verschillende Europese ziekenhuizen, ze virtueel maar interactief willen bijwonen.
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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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Denise Silber's Blog
“We are now 2 weeks after the Health 2.0 Europe conference, and it is safe to say that this is the first event in our subject area, to still be generating articles and on perhaps 10 blogs.
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APISCAM
“La Consejería de Sanidad de la Xunta de Galicia prevé que el cien por cien de las farmacias gallegas estén operativas para trabajar con receta electrónica en el primer semestre de este año, según avanzó en Lugo la titular de este departamento
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Chris Gibbons, Healthcare Disparities Solutions Blog
“The following is the text of the invited testimony I provided today to the HIT Policy Committee, at a hearing regarding the proposed “meaningful use” of HIT rule.”
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Ted Eytan, MD
“I remembered all of the times I would say, “The customer of the electronic health record is the patient” to a table/roomful of people who seemed somewhat taken aback. The response would either be no response or, “The EHR is for doctors.” Over time, I met people who would say “The EHR is for doctors. The PHR is for patients.”
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal
“The dissonance of watching ED personnel deal with a cognitively oppressive ‘overuse of GUI’ Picis ED system, and then dealing with a caveman-and-dinosaur era 1960’s character-based glass terminal emulation on the same hundred-million-transistor graphics chip-accelerated, multi-GHz CPU, modern Windows OS-based screen was simply painful.
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Steven Kraus, Dynamic Chiropractic
“We are at the start of five critical years of electronic health record (EHR) adoption and health information technology (HIT) expansion. $44,000 of federal stimulus money is on the line for qualifying providers with certified EHR systems.
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