Signaal
“Inmiddels zijn er zo’n twintig aanbieders van persoonlijke elektronische medische dossiers, de Personal Health Records. De grootste zijn Microsoft Vault en Google Health, die vooral in de Verenigde Staten al veel gebruikers hebben.
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Mike, eHealth Musings
“One of the topics that seems to getting more attention as we strive to push health IT more into the mainstream is usability. Prior to fully immersing myself in the health sector seven years ago, I worked for a major Canadian system integrator and had an internal usability team reporting to me.
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Science Daily
“Electronic health record systems likely will soon become a fixture in medical settings. Advocates claim they will reduce health care costs and improve medical outcomes, which could be critical since the new health care reform law increases access for millions of Americans.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“While the healthcare sector has long been an IT laggard, the industry appears to be embracing cloud computing comparably to many other sectors.
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“With voice exposed as a decaying business model, telecommunications companies are scrambling to secure profits beyond their traditional boundaries.
It remains to be seen whether medical services can prove to be the new gold trail they are desperately seeking.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Healthcare delivery organizations implementing electronic health record (EHR) systems can now test and certify the technology to meet the requirements of “meaningful use” of health IT, and qualify to receive incentive payments under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive program.
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Paul Roemer, e-patients.net
“I learned I had testicular cancer way back in the dark ages of medicine—1985. I learned about it while on a consulting engagement in Amarillo, Texas. The entire project team was at a colleague’s apartment having dinner.
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Rob Lamberts, The Health Care Blog
“It’s been a very long time since I did an Ask Dr. Rob post. It’s also been a long time since I shot a spitball out of a straw and hit someone behind the ear during social studies class.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced the formation of HIMSS Analytics Europe (HAE), a German-based company that will provide healthcare organizations, governments and information technology companies extensive data resources and services about the adoption and use of healthcare information technology in Europe.
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Julie Zier, AICCSE
“Look behind the receptionist’s desk in most doctors’ offices and you will see shelves crammed with manila file folders. Brightly-colored labels dot the edges. Papers of every size and shape jut out from the sides, threatening to come loose from their bindings.
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Paul Wicks, The Value of Openness
“Last week the PatientsLikeMe R&D team published a study entitled “Sharing Health Data for Better Outcomes on PatientsLikeMe” in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), the leading open access peer-reviewed journal on health care in the Internet age.
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“The Continua Health Alliance has developed a set of standards and protocols to facilitate communication between different medical devices. This was meant to allow various manufacturers to create devices that would automatically be compatible with those from other firms.
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Camille Tuutti, ExecutiveGov
“Cutting-edge virtual reality medical technology will soon be available for patients at the new National Intrepid Center of Excellence, which will hold its ribbon cutting ceremony June 24, according to the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.
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Newswise
“Electronic health record systems likely will soon become a fixture in medical settings. Advocates claim they will reduce health care costs and improve medical outcomes, which could be critical since the new health care reform law increases access for millions of Americans.
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Hoffman S, Podgurski A. Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 24(7)
In the foreseeable future, electronic health record (EHR) systems are likely to become a fixture in medical settings. The potential benefits of computerization could be substantial, but EHR systems also give rise to new liability risks for health care providers that have received little attention in the legal literature. This Article features a first of its kind, comprehensive analysis of the liability risks associated with use of this complex and important technology. In addition, it develops recommendations to address these liability concerns.
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Joel White, The Hill's Congress Blog
“According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Behind the Numbers report, employee health care costs are expected to rise by more than nine percent in 2011. If that projection holds for the foreseeable future, health care costs will double in about eight to nine years.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“In February, 2010, executives from healthcare organizations in the U.S. participated in a study conducted by healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners for the purpose of taking the pulse on where hospitals are today in adopting EHRs.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“David Blumenthal, MD, head of ONC, announced on Friday, June 18, the final rules for temporary certification of EHR products. With the temporary certification rule in place, he expects EHRs with this particular certification on the market by this fall.
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Jon Mills, The Healthcare IT Guy
“As more and more healthcare facilities leave behind the decidedly un-green data storage methods of forms and files for a more 21st century approach, the importance of monitoring and managing that data flow has grown exponentially.
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HON
“Health on the Net Foundation, a non-governmental, non-profit organization providing the HONcode, the oldest and the most used ethical and trustworthy code for medical and health related information available on Internet, launches a new and improved certificate for health and medical web sites.
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