Sachin H. Jain, HBS Alumni Bulletin
“As a physician, I’m a great believer in health IT. So I’m always confused by how slowly and unevenly it has been adopted in medicine, a field where new technologies and techniques are often embraced with vigor. To be sure, new technologies can suffer from poor implementation.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“HITECH was signed into law in February 2009 and the Meaningful Use clock starts in October 2011. We’re about half way through the process. How are we doing so far? Will we be ready in time? Everybody seems busy, none more so than ONC, and about $1.5 Billion has been awarded to States, Universities and Health Care organizations.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“According to a new HIMSS Analytics report, many clinics and hospitals are behind on their transition from paper to digitized patient records. Even worse, the digital divide is alive and well with larger, urban healthcare systems faring better than smaller, rural facilities.
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rteston, Buzz e-sante
“La revue mensuelle revient sur le congrès Health 2.0 qui s’est déroulé à Paris en avril dernier, en dressant un comparatif entre les expériences anglo-saxonnes bien avancées et les premières approches sur le marché français.
Pour résumer, la santé 2.0 se cherche un modèle en France.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Patients with chronic illnesses often require close monitoring, although access to a doctor is not always available. Royal Philips Electronics have announced an agreement with Project HOPE, an international health education and humanitarian assistance organization to place telemonitoring devices in select homes in rural areas in New Mexico. This will help patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory ailments receive the proper treatment for their medical problems.
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Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“This week I’m writing from the World Congress on Information Technology in Amsterdam. Yesterday I delivered a keynote address for the eHealth track of this multidisciplinary conference that has drawn more than 2000 delegates from across Europe and around the world. The conference theme is “challenges of change”.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“Healthcare IT system supplier EMIS claims the NHS could save almost £300m a year if all UK adults used online appointment booking and repeat prescription requesting.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“The European Commission has set out its Digital Agenda, which includes measures to use technology to address rising healthcare costs and help member states to cope with their ageing populations.
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Carolyn Whelan, Scientific American
“A new generation of medical devices using wireless communications, sophisticated software and data center-driven “cloud” computing promises to deliver health care in ways previously limited to the confines of fancy hospital rooms.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“While it may seem as if a good number of care providers have shepherded mobile health services – piloted them – at their facilities, the truth is very few have officially announced mobile health pilots.
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Linda Blake, Voice of America
“Eye doctors in India are now able to treat patients in remote villages thanks to a new wi-fi video conferencing network.
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Sophie Curtis, eWeek Europe
“The UN telecoms agency, the ITU, has called for new action to enable half of the world’s population to gain access to broadband by 2015.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“I last wrote about Bob Lorsch of MMR Information Systems (right) at SmartPlanet last year. He was helping China automate its medical records.
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Anuradha Shukla, TMCNet
“The chief executive officer and chairman of MMR Information System, Inc., Robert H. Lorsh, presents a blog which can be viewed at any of the company’s websites, www.mymedicalrecords.com, www.mmrpatientview.com, www.mmrvideos.com, www.mymedicalrecordsmd.comand www.myesafedepositbox.com.
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Joseph Kim, Mobile Health Computing
“We all know that electronic health records or EHRs are actively penetrating the market because of the HITECH Act. Will doctors embrace the slate tablet? Or will they stick with the old keyboard and mouse?
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Secretary of Health and Human Services should consider creating information technology certification programs beyond those being adopted for complete electronic health records systems and EHR modules, according to the Electronic Health Network Accreditation Commission.
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Weitzman ER et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(2)
Background:
Engaging consumers in sharing information from personally controlled health records (PCHRs) for health research may promote goals of improving care and advancing public health consistent with the federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Understanding consumer willingness to share data is critical to advancing this model.
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Vince Kuraitis, David C. Kibbe, e-CareManagement
“Pop quiz: Among early-stage companies that are successful, what percentage are successful with the initial business model with which they started (Plan A) vs. a secondary business model (Plan B)?
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Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“The patient of the future—also known as the e-Patient—is technologically savvy, information hungry, and has a sense of entitlement about the level of service and the types of services they want.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“Healthcare providers should encrypt patient information when they share it with another provider, even in a case of the direct exchange of personal health information or data that is not facilitated by a health information exchange or other third-party organization.
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