Articles
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“The field of healthcare has undergone drastic changes with the introduction of internet and its other related concepts. It has given rise to the internet savvy patient who is now able to get information which had remained inaccessible for years with just a click of the mouse. The healthcare is now patient centered and is looking to improve based on the feedback available from the patients and/or their caregivers.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: e-patient, Social Media
Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Although it reads as if we were all playing together in some odd health IT island on Second Life, an interesting debate broke out online yesterday.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Exchange
Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“With the introduction of electronic health records, health data storage is expected to be high on providers’ to-do lists. However, storing this data will be challenging, said Bill Burns, senior director for Hitachi Data Systems.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Data Storage
Andy Oram, O'Reilly Radar
“The list of sessions at the Open Source convention’s health care track was published this week. We found it wonderfully gratifying to get so many excellent submissions in the brief three weeks that the Request for Proposals was up.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Devices, Health Information Exchange, Open Source, Patient Centric
Jennifer Ruzek Liebermann, The Health Care Blog
“To explore answers to that, this week I am joining with physicians, nurses and design thinking, quality and innovation experts from the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and Kaiser Permanente for three days in South Devon, England
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Failure, Healthcare Technology, Innovation
eHealthNews.eu
“The Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Republic of Kazakhstan has signed a contract for consultants’ services with the Australian company Ocean Informatics Pty Ltd. within the framework of the World Bank-supported Kazakhstan Health Technology Transfer and Institutional Reform Project.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Kazakhstan | Tags: health-information-system, Industry, Interoperability, Standards
Science Daily
“Patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may no longer have to spend an expensive and uncomfortable night at a sleep center to monitor their sleep-disordered breathing.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Monitoring, Portable, Sleep apnea
Apiscam
“El 88 por ciento de los médicos de Atención Primaria tiene ya acceso a la historia clínica electrónica de sus pacientes y el 46 por ciento dispone de receta electrónica.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: e-prescribing, Primary Care, Telemedicine
e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“Through the magic of Google Alerts, Diane Engelman recently learned of this blog. She’s one heck of an e-patient, though until now she’d never heard the word.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Cardiology, e-patient, Empowerment, Health Information
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Veterans Affairs Department plans to develop a kiosk-based system for its mental health clinics that would allow patients who have limited computer literacy or cognitive disabilities to conduct self-assessments of their conditions.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: emr, Kiosk, Literacy, Mental Health
Tian Y. Health Communication, 25(3)
This study examines the content of and audience response to organ donation videos on YouTube, a Web 2.0 platform, with framing theory. Positive frames were identified in both video content and audience comments. Analysis revealed a reciprocity relationship between media frames and audience frames. Videos covered content categories such as kidney, liver, organ donation registration process, and youth. Videos were favorably rated.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Communication, Video, Web 2.0
Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Electronic prescribing, also known as e-prescribing, is a bedrock element of the federal government’s push for health IT.
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20 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Alert/Reminder, Decision Support, e-prescribing, Medical Errors
Jaan Sidorov, Disease Management Care Blog
“Did you know that in some countries, the number of cell phones in circulation exceeds the number of persons? That in the U.S., 58% of persons have sent text messages, 89% of teens use text messaging regularly and that 30% of teens do so daily?
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19 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | EHR: EHR USA | Tags: Disease Management, Messaging, mHealth
Robert D. Budman, MD, MBA's Blog
“Communicate early and often (several months before go-live and maybe before contracting).
Articulate vision and mission and develop a culture of excellence, safety and outcomes, satisfaction, and standardizing care.
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19 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption
Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“The Obama administration’s plan for implementing electronic medical records is getting some pushback. Health-industry groups including the AMA and American Hospital Association are calling the digitization requirements “too much, too soon,” Politico reports.
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19 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Incentives, Meaningful Use
UPI.com
“Fifty percent of U.S. parents say they welcome e-communications with their child’s doctor, a U.S. survey indicates.
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19 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Children, Communication, e-Mail
John K. Higgins, CRM Buyer
“Proposed federal regulations for obtaining funding could actually stymie the adoption of EHR programs, say critics.
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18 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Incentives, Meaningful Use
Zanskar's Blog
“Je viens de découvrir par hasard le blog buzz e-santé et ce très intéressant article sur les applications médicales Iphone et Ipad, que ce soit à destination du public ou des professionnels de santé.
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18 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Applications, mHealth
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“According to the WHO, health technology refers to the application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives. Advancing health technologies increases the health care costs. Health is a major financial problem and a serious issue the world over.
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18 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: India | Tags: Devices, Health Information Technology, Imaging, mobile, Telemedicine
Michael Young, Article Source
“Global Markets Direct, a source for leading research and analysis, is releasing the report The Future of the Healthcare IT Market to 2015 – Healthcare Reform in the US to Boost Growth, which provides key data, information, and analysis on the global Healthcare IT market. The report estimates that the global market for Healthcare IT market was valued at around $11 billion in 2008, and is forecast to exceed $24 billion by 2015, with a CAGR of 11%.
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18 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR | Tags: Health Information Technology
