Articles
Rutherford JJ. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE, 29(3)
Wearable technology may provide an integral part of the solution for providing health care to a growing world population that will be strained by a ballooning aging population. By providing a means to conduct telemedicine-the monitoring, recording, and transmission of physiological signals from outside of the hospital-wearable technology solutions could ease the burden on health-care personnel and use hospital space for more emergent or responsive care.
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29 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Telemedicine, Wearable
Candid CIO
“On July 13, 2010 the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services released their Final Rule regarding the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program, known within our industry as the definition of “meaningful use” of an EHR.
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29 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Certification, Incentives
Margalit Gur-Arie, KevinMD
“As we move to electronic health records (EHR), the debates over security and privacy are becoming more frequent and more poignant.
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Physicians, Privacy
John, EMR and HIPAA
“One clinic I visited yesterday in northern Nevada — Silver Sage — will be an exemplar for me (I’m an REC adoption support workflow specialist). They look to be a shoo-in for Meaningful Use compliance. They use eMDs, and they are really using it. eRx? Check. CPOE? Check. 2-way lab interface feeding back structured data?
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Workflow
Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“The money could begin flowing from Medicare to providers for the purchase of electronic health-record systems as early as May 2011, a CMS official said today.
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Incentives
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Will tens of billions of dollars in forthcoming incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records meet the HITECH Act’s goal of improving care quality and patient outcomes while bringing efficiencies to the health care industry?
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Incentives, Meaningful Use, Workflow
John Schieszer, Renal And Urology News
“New findings suggest that electronic health records (EHR) with special features for managing hypertension may be highly beneficial in improving BP control.
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Hypertension
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“ReadWriteWeb has a worthwhile feature on the potential for location-based services in healthcare: How might services enabled by GPS, like FourSquare and other future services, impact consumer health and healthcare providers’ data set?
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: GPS, Location, smartphone
Healthcare IT News
“There’s a big push in the healthcare industry for hospitals to deploy core IT systems — electronic medical records, PACs, practice management, cardiology — to enable more efficient, higher quality care.
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Technology, Hospitals
Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“According to the Veterans Administration’s Northwest News, VISN 20 has a number of ongoing projects. VISN 20 is expanding telehealth, examining the patient centered medical home concept, expanding outreach clinics, expanding rural healthcare services, improving behavioral health efforts, and partnering with providers in local communities where it is not feasible to establish a VA staffed clinic.
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Primary Care, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“A Hong Kong-based firm has developed a robot designed to help individuals combat obesity, by holding conversations with them about their weight.
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Obesity, Robot
Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“Insurers including WellPoint and Aetna are experimenting with programs that allow heart-failure patients to transmit their vital signs and other indicators of health from home to a medical caregiver using electronic devices, the WSJ reports.
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Cardiology, Devices, Insurer, Wireless
Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“Mayo Clinic has been taking advantage of social media — including Facebook, Twitter and patient and employee blogs — for several years.
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Blog, facebook, Hospitals, Social Media, Twitter
medGadget
“The Software Freedom Law Center, an open source advocacy legal group, has issues a paper claiming that the closed nature of the software running most implantable devices is a health risk.
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Devices, Implants, Open Source
Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“It happens more with IT. Much more. Do you know what the chances are of any IT project ‘working’ that costs more than$7-10 million? (Working is defined as having a positive ROI, a project that was delivered on time, withing the budget, and delivered the expected results.) (IT includes workflows, change management, training, etc.) Two in ten.
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28 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Workflow
Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“Seven of 13 Canadian provinces and territories offer subsidies to primary-care physicians for the purchase of EHR systems, according to a new report published in the Journal of Healthcare Information Management. But after nearly a decade of providing these subsidies, Canada still has not achieved majority adoption of EHR systems among its primary-care physicians, the report notes.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Adoption
Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“How ubiquitous have smartphones become among physicians? A new report from Menlo Park, Calif.-based Spyglass Consulting Group says that an astounding 94 percent of doctors are using smartphones to communicate, manage healthcare and personal workflows and access medical information–up from 59 percent in November 2006.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Physicians, smartphone
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have joined forces to help advance innovation and investment in wireless-enabled telehealth devices, which can improve the quality of a patient’s health and reduce healthcare costs.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Devices, Innovation, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Wireless
Eric Van De Graaff, KevinMD
“My medical school at the University of Utah developed a clever computer program in the late 80s that was meant to both educate medical students and assist in the treatment of patients.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Technology
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“A former chair of the BMA’s GP IT committee is advising GPs to automatically opt-out all patients from the Summary Care Record.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Opt out, summary-care-records
