Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The notion that Electronic Health Record (EHR) data is somehow “safer” when it is backed up locally is something raised in conversation from time to time. Is this really true? What kinds of assumptions lie behind such a question?
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epractice.eu
“Over 2 400 residents of the village of La Algaida, in the Autonomous Region of Andalusia, will have unique electronic health records (EHR).
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epractice.eu
“The development of the Estonian eHealth Record System has been progressing steadily since its launch in December 2008. It will continue gradually until 2013.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“ePediatrics” could become more common, as parents are requesting more electronic communication with their children’s doctors, according to a new poll.
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A Pakistan News
“World’s smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg, has been developed, which may help improve healthcare in developing countries reported by A Pakistan News.
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Jonah Frohlich, iHealthBeat
“Californians think big — as the seventh largest economy in the world we have to. And as one might expect we boast some of the biggest health IT successes and failures.
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Beverley Head, ITWire
“The Government’s fooling itself if it thinks that the $466.7 million allocated in last week’s Budget will buy it a national e-health record system, but nor should it pony up billions to pay for a big bang electronic health network as the UK’s £30 billion e-health initiative has proved a squib.
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MedicExchange
“EMRs have slow roll-out times and advanced technology learning curves, however, they help in healthcare costcutting and raises improves patient health care.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“Alert has become the latest firm to join COCIR, the European medical devices and healthcare IT trade association.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Primary care trusts are seeking agreement from GP practices to go ahead with the creation of Summary Care Records in areas where their roll-out had been suspended.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The Dept. of Health and Human Services is going to be conducting two surveys on patient perceptions of EHRs. Getting patient buy-in is just as critical as having physicians adopt health IT. It’s one thing to get physicians to use the system.
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Joseph Kvedar, The cHealth Blog
“Some recent experiences we had at the Center, as well as some data published by my friend Susannah Fox at the Pew Internet Project, have me noodling about chronic illness. This is going to motivate some readers to jump all over me, and I welcome the dialogue. But, please, before you do, take time to read and contemplate.
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Heather Chambers, San Diego Business Journal
“In the past, home health agencies interested in keeping track of their mobile caregivers had few options at their disposal.
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Paul Christopher Webster, CMAJ News
“In the opinion of Dr. Karim Keshavjee, a Toronto, Ontario, family physician and associate member of the Centre for Evaluation of Medicines affiliated with McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada’s experience with EHRs has largely been a failure.
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Paul Christopher Webster, CMAJ News
“Dr. James Lane, a Collingwood, Ontario, family physician, has worked with EHRs for nearly a decade, even winning an award from the provincial government for his leadership in the adoption of electronic records at 21 sites used by the 37 doctors within the Georgian Bay family health team.
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Paul Christopher Webster, CMAJ News
“Two years after Barack Obama’s presidential campaign pledge to vastly increase usage of electronic health records (EHRs), the White House is following through.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“Maintaining a record about the different aspects of health is an important and mandatory step for all the hospitals and clinics. The simplest benefit offered is: this system helps the hospitals to keep a track of the progress of the patients while, the patients will have a record of all the treatments and tests they have undergone. There are numerous other benefits that a health record can serve to the hospitals and the patients.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“In the 6 years since the National Cholesterol Education Program reduced the LDL (“bad”) cholesterol target from 100 mg/dL to 70 mg/dL in patients deemed at very high risk for a heart attack, experts have consistently raised doubts the aggressive goal could be met in most patients.
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MedicExchange
“Regional extension centers as federally funded outposts for EMR support will open soon for the purpose of assisting physicians adopt EMRs and be elligible for ‘Meaningful use’ incentives.
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Tom Chernitsky, EMR and HIPAA
“As we SLOWLY progress towards the Government putting in place an actual plan to fulfill the goals set forth for Healthcare in the American Recovery and Reinvestment act of 2009, the backlash seems on the verge of overtaking the talk of actual good that would be achieved.
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