Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“A consortium of leading international bodies and health organisations has called for the accelerated use of mobile health ICT to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and improve health in the developing world.
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Paul Grant, Creation Interactive
“Over the past 16 years, Taiwan has been creating a health management system that enables its 23 million citizens to carry a so-called ‘IC Card’ medical record everywhere they go. This Integrated Circuit card contains information about the last six medical visits, prescriptions, allergies, organ donation willingness and vaccinations.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“Recently, we suggested that innovative business models can drive vendors to produce breakthroughs in EMR usability. We subsequently argued that market forces are more efficient than regulation as a means to assure rapid dissemination of usable EMRs. If the market is to work its magic in this regard, physicians need simple ways to compare EMRs when it comes to usability.
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Cheryl Clark, HealthLeaders Media
“Intelligent use of electronic health records—even those collected from multiple health systems—can alert providers to harmful medical practices.
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Apiscam
“La estrategia incluye acciones concretas, como aplicar el Marco de Interoperabilidad Europea a nivel nacional para el 2013, potenciar los estándares europeos, las pruebas de interoperabilidad y certificación de los sistemas de eSalud para el 2015 a través del diálogo entre los actores
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Gary Baldwin, Health Data Management Magazine
“When it comes to data security, Dallas-based Children’s Medical Center was a day late and a Blackberry short. On November 19 last year, a staff person reported a lost-and unencrypted-Blackberry, one that contained an e-mail with a spreadsheet attached. The spreadsheet listed some 3,800 patients who had been treated in the hospital’s ICU.
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Greg Gillespie, Health Data Management Magazine
“Mount Sinai Hospital has moved its use of hand-held applications in the clinical setting way beyond checking calendars and e-mail. The Toronto-based facility has linked 66 applications to a homegrown system called VitalHub that enables physicians to order drugs and diagnostic tests, check on lab results and trend vitals data, and access nursing documentation as well as reference apps.
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management Magazine
“You can’t say the first 18 months of the Obama administration have been boring for the health I.T. industry.
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Apiscam
“Los fabricantes de software apuestan por productos que permitan que el médico pueda acceder a la historia clínica desde cualquier punto del centro de salud, hospital o infraestructura sanitaria, evitando desplazamientos.
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Azaraimy HH, BruDirect
“Bandar Seri Begawan – Brunei will have a state of the art stroke centre next week when the Jerudong Park Medical Centre (JPMC) opens its new Neurological and Neuroradiological unit.
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Sally C. Pipes, Inside Bay Area
“If the federal government’s ambitious new plan to digitize the nation’s medical records comes about, filling out reams of paperwork at the doctor’s office may become a thing of the past.
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Jon Linkous, mobihealthnews
“The funny thing about “mHealth” is that it has taken on such a cult-like status among investors, industry and the media. Certainly the potential for the use of mHealth in the delivery of healthcare is huge and it may have an impact on other parts of healthcare such as chronic care management, emergency response services and the role and responsibilities of the consumer in their own health.
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Topnews
“Legislation to put in place the Healthcare Identifiers Service was given a green signal by federal Parliament today.
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7th Space
“In order to proceed from a paper based registration to a surveillance system that is based on extraction of electronic health records (EHR), knowledge is needed on the number and representativeness of sentinel GPs using a government-certified EHR system and the quality of EHR data for research
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Mary Vanac, MedCity News
“The promise of electronic health records (EHR) seems clear: The digital records of everything from prescriptions to CT scans could raise the quality and lower the cost of healthcare.
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Jianggan Li, FutureGov
“A consortium made up by Accenture, Oracle, and Orion Health has won Singapore’s National Electronic Health Record project, a credible source has told FutureGov.
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Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“Die Ärztekammer Nordrhein und die Ärztekammer Westfalen-Lippe haben einen ärztlichen Beirat installiert, der die Praktikabilität der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) unter die Lupe nehmen soll. Auf den Prüfstand kommt der Einsatz der eGK in den Testregionen Essen und Bochum.
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Peter Hudson, mobihealthnews
“Personal health records (PHRs) represent a great opportunity for healthcare consumers to take control of their healthcare data and help deliver many meaningful solutions for managing their health. The problem with the current landscape of solutions is that data is not flowing quickly from healthcare systems into central repositories.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The federal government’s stimulus investment in healthcare IT is not a panacea, primarily because during the last decade the healthcare industry failed to invest in technology innovation. For that reason, it will take two to three years for the healthcare industry to catch up to other industries such as retail and banking, a new report concludes.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“As we move to Electronic Health Records (EHR), the debates over security and privacy are becoming more frequent and more poignant. We of course have HIPAA laws on the books and ONC has a Tiger team assembled to recommend privacy and security policies to Secretary Sebelius.
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