Ideaworks
“The telemedicine market in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) is expected to grow to almost half a billion dollars in the coming years, according to a new report. The surge is being driven by a widespread increase in IT spending as well as a rise in patients with chronic diseases.
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Adida B et al, 2010
We suggest that doctors can most effectively share data with one another via a patient’s personally controlled health record.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“In the United States today there are about 3 million people with some form of epilepsy, a medical condition that produces seizures affecting mental and physical functions.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
In 2010 the ICMCC News Page and Science Pages reached 6 million hits, 2 million visits and almost 5 million pageviews by over 84,000 visitors.
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CMIO
“IT-based programs can improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) management and patient empowerment, but must be accompanied by supportive social and political environments and active patient and clinician engagement, according to an article published online Aug. 24 in PLoS Medicine.
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Health Imaging
“The EMR purchasing process has matured, there are fewer EMR pioneers and buyers are savvier; so today’s EMR projects aren’t likely to go way over budget, according to a report from healthcare market research firm KLAS. However, EMR customers may face unexpected costs down the line.
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Wells S et al, PLoS Medicine, 7(8)
Robyn Whittaker and colleagues argue that IT-based programs can improve cardiovascular disease management and patient empowerment, but must be accompanied by supportive social and political environments and active patient and clinician engagement.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“Almost all U.S. hospitals couldn’t meet the federal government’s meaningful-use standards and qualify for subsidy payments for electronic health-record systems under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, according to a report published Thursday in the policy journal Health Affairs.
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Rosemarie Nelson, KevinMD
“Maybe you’ve been assuming that when it comes time to go live on your EMR, you’ll simply scan each patient’s old paper chart into the electronic system.
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Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online
“A few weeks ago, I wrote an article titled Save The Clinical Narrative that emphasized the importance of preserving the medical narrative to aid in clinical decision making. I received a great deal of feedback on this article from physicians, healthcare IT personnel, and the vendor community alike.
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eHealthNews.eu
“Due to deficiencies in present administrative and record-keeping capacities, hospitals across Europe are under tremendous pressure to improve clinical practices. As inefficient trends permeate hospital management, the adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) solutions has become paramount.
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Healthbase Australia Blog
“There is a wide spectrum of opinion in Australia regarding how e-health should be progressed. At one end of this spectrum we have the proponents of national-scale, top-down architected and developed infrastructure, such as exemplified by HealthConnect and by the NEHTA work program.
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Katherine Dedyna, Times Colonist
“It’s your health, but a personal record — never mind a family’s — can get long, complicated and confusing to recall on the spot, especially in an emergency. Moreover, thousands of B.C. residents don’t have a general practitioner keeping records for them.
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Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog
“While the share of U.S. hospitals that had adopted either basic or comprehensive electronic health records rose modestly between 2008 and 2009, from 8.7 percent to 11.9 percent, only 2 percent of this country’s hospitals reported having records that would meet the federal government’s “meaningful use” criteria.
These findings are reported today in a Health Affairs Web First article by Harvard’s Ashish Jha, who is serving as a senior adviser to the under secretary for health of the Veterans Health Administration and coauthors.
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Jha AK et al, Health Affairs, 29(10)
Given the substantial federal financial incentives soon to be available to providers who make “meaningful use” of electronic health records, tracking the progress of this health care technology conversion is a policy priority. Using a recent survey of U.S. hospitals, we found that the share of hospitals that had adopted either basic or comprehensive electronic records has risen modestly, from 8.7 percent in 2008 to 11.9 percent in 2009.
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Kathleen Sebelius, KHN
“A funny thing happened on the way to a 21st century health care system.
Many different groups representing vastly different interests across health care recently came together around an issue that seemed like a roadblock to building a healthier America a short time ago.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Several studies point to a higher adoption rate of smartphones by physicians than the general public. Given the historical low rates of technology adoption within the healthcare industry, this news may come as a surprise.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“How many Internet users search for health information? According to one poll, almost all of them.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“The best lessons learned are those you don’t have to learn yourself. That seems to be the idea behind a free, downloadable guide incorporating the experience of about 170 health IT professionals who have already implemented electronic health records in their organizations.
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Ahava Leibtag, Online it ALL Matters
“Earlier this year, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion published a must-read for any Web professional producing healthcare websites, “Health Literacy Online: A guide to writing and designing easy-to-use health Web sites.” [PDF] The report is 98-pages, but if you are a healthcare content strategist and Web writer like myself, it’s a fascinating read.”
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Ahava Leibtag, Online it ALL Matters, 25 August 2010
