Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly known as the stimulus law, has a host of tight deadlines for its myriad health information technology subsidy and IT network development initiatives.
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Irene M. Wielawski, KHN
“Appointed in March, 2009, Blumenthal has spent the last year refining Congress’ blueprint to encourage doctors and hospitals to adopt EMRs. He says those who “get on board” will be paid more by Medicare and Medicaid, beginning in 2011. But in 2016 the subsidies disappear and those still using paper records risk sanctions, including reduced Medicare fees.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Google does indeed have an achilles heel, a potentially fatal flaw.
They don’t scale people.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“No issue is more important to healthcare providers than data management, according to a new global survey of healthcare executives, conducted by BridgeHead Software, which develops and markets healthcare storage virtualization solutions.
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Michelle Trudeau, NPR
“As the computing power of cell phones increases, more and more sophisticated mobile apps are being developed for the mental health field.
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3G Doctor Blog
“I also received an email last week from a patient community that I’m signed up to (for research purposes) that got me thinking a bit more about how patient communities are doing.
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Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“Each day, thousands of retired veterans don an electronic cuff at home that records their pulse and blood pressure and sends the information to care coordinators at the Veterans Health Administration.
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“Roger Baker, CIO of the Department of Veterans Affairs, believes he has the technical solution that will turn around many of the information security problems that have plagued VA for years and will help ensure the department does a better job of protecting its network and sensitive data.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News Priming the Pump
“As new HIT makes ever greater inroads into the nation’s healthcare system, there is bound to be an expanding array of stories that highlight the advantages HIT brings to patients and doctors alike.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“GP representatives are to hear calls for the Summary Care Record to be abandoned at the national local medical committees’ conference next month.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“Robotic nurses hold the promise of becoming more of a reality now than science fiction. Imagine having a robot around the house to do all your chores, administer medicine, and do all your checkups without you having to step out of your house at all.
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Zanskar's Blog
“Du 10 au 12 mai dernier a eu lieu à Miami le « Pharma Marketing Summit », une rencontre autour du marketing pour les principaux acteurs de l’industrie pharmaceutiques.
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Apiscam
“El sector médico dispone de una nueva red social destinada al intercambio de conocimientos y casos clínicos.
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Michelle Riley, HealthTechnica
“Information systems will change the fundamental structure of the healthcare organization. Information systems are strategically designed to give an organization a competitive edge by supporting and shaping the structure and strategy of the organization (BNET, 2010). Advancements in information technology have increased the efficiency of healthcare services and staff as available technology reduces paper and recordkeeping errors (BLS, 2009).
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Gregg Alexander, IHIIP
“Apparently cast aside for its heretical proclamations, this new Calendar is most impressive for both the time extension it allows humankind as well as the incredible glyphs just now decoded which appear to describe the tumultuous rise of electronic health records and the NHIN, known in Mayan as the MHIN.”
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Prof. Dr. B. Bergh second from left
3 German regions have been named Health Regions of the Future and awarded a total of EUR 22 million for the next 4 years.
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Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“Mention health care reform and the image that instantly comes to mind is a big government program. But there is another broad transformation in health care under way, a powerful force for decentralized innovation. It is fueled in good part by technology — low-cost computing devices, digital sensors and the Web.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to try and figure out where the skills for this project will come from, how whatever is planned will be procured (surely DoHA would not try to develop something like this?), what the governance will look like, and why clinicians would send information of this sort to a Government repository among a host of other questions about data quality, data priority, legal liability for contents transmitted and so the list goes on.
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Medisch Contact
“Op 1 juni zou het zo ver zijn, dat de senatoren hun oordeel zouden vellen over wijzigingen in de Wet gebruik burgerservicenummer in de zorg, meer dan een jaar nadat ze de Tweede Kamer waren gepasseerd.
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Elizabeth Landau, CNN
“Before iPhones, Foursquare and Facebook, B.J. Fogg envisioned a mobile fitness device that coaches the user, tracks her location, and shows her friends also exercising at that time. The concept appeared in Fogg’s 1997 dissertation about how computing and psychology can merge to change behavior, and people thought the idea sounded “Star Trek-ish.”
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