John Moore, Chilmark Research
“There’s been a whole lot of discussion going on in this post on EMR and HIPAA called Why EMR Efforts Are Proceeding Slowly. The comments are an interesting read for those interested in EMR adoption.
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Denise Silber's Blog
“ACOR a été crééé en 1995, à l’époque où l’accès à l’Internet n’était pratiqué que par une petite minorité de la population … notamment issue des universités.
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Enrico Coiera, Sydney Morning Herald
“I can download a new episode of my favourite TV show on the night it shows in the US. I can email a movie of my son to his grandparent overseas. I can find a long-lost friend on Facebook in less time than it takes to make a cup of coffee.
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Nederlands Dagblad
“Artsen, psychologen en andere hulpverleners maken gebruik van internet om de gangen van hun patiënten na te gaan.
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Ärzte Zeitung
“Nach der Ablehnung der Gesundheitskarte (eGK) durch den Ärztetag klagen Krankenkassen und Industrie über die langsamen Fortschritte im Projekt.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“They say all healthcare is local. That could also be said about the regional extension centers (RECs) anointed by the Dept. of Health and Human Services and ONC.
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Ken Terry, BNET
“Trying to follow the ins and outs of healthcare information technology — a complicated morass of electronic health records, patient and medical-management systems, federal subsidies and mandates and a whole lot more — has been like assembling a giant jigsaw puzzle whose pieces are delivered in random order.
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Steve Hards, Telecare Aware
“Every year worldwide, 500,000 women die owing to complications from childbirth. Of these, 10% are in Nigeria. A Californian health sciences student, Evelyn Castle, is doing something about it through an initiative called e-Health Nigeria and an ‘Instant EMR’ she is introducing. To learn more about this visionary young woman, follow the Read more… link below.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Much of the success of healthcare reform legislation will depend on how doctors and patients use information technology to update, store, and track medical information in real time. The Internet is expected to play a role in that process, yet the vast majority of parents aren’t using the Internet to interact with their children’s doctors, and that’s something parents want to change, a new study finds.
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“The great thing about the Internet is that it’s global. The bad thing about the Internet is that it’s global.
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Think the tug-of-war between vendors, health systems and privacy advocates over data mining and de-identification of patient records is subsiding?
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John W. Sharp, eHealth
“Accenture has published a report on “Connected How Technology Will Transform the Future of Chronic Care.” From the Accenture Innovation Center for Health, a good source for research white papers. The paper reports that “a broad range of consumer health electronics at home, a two-way, direct-to-consumer infrastructure” and smart devices which set the stage for health care connectivity.
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Fred Trotter
“I am a vocal participant on the NHIN Direct Security and Trust working group. Its a perfect place for me. I love Open Source healthcare, but my background was in InfoSec… and we never really forget our first love.. do we? At the NHIN Direct Security and Trust workgroup, I get to exercise all of my hats at once… and that is fun.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“What was at one time an event focusing on visionary statements and a desire to attract the developer community has transitioned too much more of a true user conference and with this transition, Microsoft’s 3rd annual healthcare event, Connected Health Conference (CHC), was more subdued focusing on execution more than vision.
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Patrick Barta, Adventures in telepsychiatry
“There was a news article which came out over the weekend which described the results of a systematic review by members of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners in the United Kingdom.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“The AMA has a FUD-filled piece out today warning that the FDA is about to come for your doctor’s iPhone apps.
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Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“The Health and Human Services Department is deploying a cloud-based customer-relationship management system to help its regional centers do a more effective job of promoting the use of electronic health record systems.
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Prakash Sharma, TopNews
“The chief information officer of Singapore’s Ministry of Health Holdings who is currently operating a ten year investment strategy for the nation valued at up to S$1.5 billion reveals today that Australia’s faces an urgent requirement for a chief to nudge its e-health reforms.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Dossia, the consortium founded several years ago by nearly a dozen large employers to develop and offer e-health records to their workers, is now making that software platform available to other companies.
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Emily Long, NextGov
“There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Journal of American Medicine about the different types of monitoring and evaluation required to mitigate potential errors in e-health records.
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