Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“In a virtualized desktop, also known as client virtualization, the data, and often operating system, is stored on a remote central server, instead of local storage in end-user computer terminals.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“I don’t get it.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“This is the third installment of the interview conducted with Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, whose book, Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, was published in May.
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Apiscam
“El Hospital 12 de Octubre acogerá el Centro de Proceso de Datos (CPD) Athene@, un gran centro tecnológico que supodrá una inversión de 2.858.926 euros para 2010.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Hospitals and physicians that plan to meet meaningful use eligibility for government incentives must start now to assess their technology and talk with their vendors about certification, says Erica Drazen, managing partner of consulting firm CSC’s Healthcare Group.
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Chelsey Ledue, Healthcare IT News
“Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has designated more than 1,800 physicians in roughly 500 practices across the state as patient-centered medical homes, the largest PCMH effort in the United States and one that has information technology at its core.
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FHS eSociety Blog
“Eine neue Publikation der Europäischen Kommission beschäftigt sich mit dem Einsatz von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) für personalisierte Gesundheitsanwendungen: “A healthy approach: Technology for personalised, preventative healthcare“.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“Work on developing Swine flu surveys over mobile phone by Telefónica Mexico and German firm Myriad Group AG, has been shortlisted for ‘messaging application or service: social use’ at the 2010 Global Messaging Awards.
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Sky News
“Every Australian will be given an individual healthcare identification number from next week after parliament gave the scheme the green light.
Labor amended its draft laws on Thursday in response to concerns raised earlier this year by a Senate committee.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners Healthcare, announced on Wednesday that patients using a wireless electronic bottle cap to remind them to take their blood pressure medication led to a 27% higher rate of patients who took their medication on time compared to patients who didn’t have such a device.
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Timothy Wilson, the Washington Post
“Meera Sutaria of Ashburn grew tired of trying to read the scribbled handwriting from the mounds of patient documents. So when she opened her optometry practice, she left behind the clutter and waste of paper from her former employer.
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James M. Connolly, Mass High Tech
“Using cloud computing in the health information technology sector makes sense from a cost basis, but it could take years for health-care providers and patients to develop solid confidence in the security of patient data in cloud environments.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“For the three million veterans living in rural areas, access to healthcare remains a major barrier, Rep. Michael F. Michaud (D-Maine), chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health, said in his opening remarks at a hearing Wednesday. But wireless technology shows promise for veterans, he said.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“The security of patient data has been, and continues to be, a major problem for the US in achieving its goals for an interoperable healthcare system. According to Kurt Long, CEO of FairWarning technology solutions, the same problem can be found all over the world.
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Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online
“The big news in healthcare IT circles this month was Allscripts’ acquisition of Eclipsys. According to issued press releases, the purchase was an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion. The combined company will employ nearly 5,500 employees ? with Allscripts’ CEO Glen Tullman serving as CEO of the combined company and Eclipsys’ CEO Phil Pead serving as chairman.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“The “consumer choice technology” demonstration that the federal Health IT Policy Committee’s new privacy and security Tiger Team will host June 29 in Washington aims to showcase projects and systems that address one of healthcare reform’s biggest IT challenges: balancing the opportunities of health-information sharing with the need to keep individual patients’ data secure.
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Samoocha D et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(2)
Background:
Patient empowerment is growing in popularity and application. Due to the increasing possibilities of the Internet and eHealth, many initiatives that are aimed at empowering patients are delivered online.
Objective:
Our objective was to evaluate whether Web-based interventions are effective in increasing patient empowerment compared with usual care or face-to-face interventions.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“The chair of Intellect’s Health Group, Jeremy Nettle, has told E-Health Insider that he expects that there will be increased investment in health IT in response to the £20 billion of efficiency savings needed to be made by the NHS.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Primary-care practices, if you’re thinking about not adopting an EMR, you could be putting yourselves in a very bad position for the inevitable future transition to a quality-based reimbursement system.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The question of Certification of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has caused confusion among many physicians, clinics and hospitals. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), a new approach to certification came into play, which replaced the legacy method.
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