Robert Lamberts, Physicians Practice
“EHR adoption doesn’t end when your system is installed; you have to continue to improve your use of the product. Many offices see EHR as a burden instead of a tool that can improve the lives of both patients and medical staff. One of the keys to changing this mindset is to improve your work flow and refine user skills to take full advantage of your EHR.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“Recent conversations with several health IT pros have made clearer the EHR connection to HIEs. As one of the features in this Portal indicates, an EHR can expand clinical information exchange throughout an organization, and can bridge gaps in the exchange process, thus paving the way for HIE connections.
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KevinMD
“I recently spoke at Grand Rounds in my local hospital, talking about how doctors and other medical professionals can better use social media to interact with patients.
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Thibaud Guymard, Creation Interactive
“Through the esante.gouv.fr portal, the Health Shared Information Systems Agency (ASIP Santé), operator of e-Health for the Ministry of Health provides “a platform for information and awareness about the challenges of e-health in France that tries to develop projects and initiatives in this regard”. This website allows all stakeholders to exchange, share and comment on articles online.
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Jacobs N, De Bourdeaudhuij I, Claes N. Informatics for Health & Social Care, 35(2)
The primary objectives of the present study were to gain insight into website use and to predict the surfing depth on a behaviour change website and its effect on behaviour. Two hundred eight highly educated adults from the intervention condition of a randomised trial received access to a medical intervention, individual coaching (by e-mail, post, telephone or face-to-face) and a behaviour change website. Website use (e.g. surfing depth, page view duration) was registered. Online questionnaires for physical activity and fat intake were filled out at baseline and after 6 months. Hierarchical linear regression was used to predict surfing depth and its effect on behaviour.
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Brunetti ND et al, Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, 17(6)
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To assess whether telemedicine technology applied to public emergency healthcare system improves overall quality of home diagnosis in case of acute myocardial infarction among elderly patients, often characterized by higher rates of atypical presentation.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Despite the relaxation of the proposed meaningful use criteria for the adoption of EHRs and EMRs, critics claim that the final rule is still too stringent and the rushed timeline will doom the whole transformation to a fully electronic healthcare delivery system. Politics aside, the critiques are actually a good thing.
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Naomi Freundlich, Health Beat
“Last week I had my first visit with my new primary care doctor. I picked him based on recommendations (plus he’s one of the few that accepts my insurance), and also because he seemed to be an eager adopter of electronic medical records (EMR).
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Jean DerGurahian, HealthITExchange
“As one delves deeply into the details of electronic health records, technical standards, privacy compliance and vendor contracts, what starts to emerge is more a picture of legal defense than one of a system focused on patient care.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Dr. Deborah Peel has been crusading against health reform since the Clinton years. Readers of Modern Healthcare have named her one of the 100 most powerful people in the field for three years running.
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Dale Sanders, HealthSystemCIO
“Cerner and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) have teamed to provide evidence-based medicine (EBM) embedded in the electronic medical record in a manner that is as exciting and encouraging a development in healthcare IT as anything I’ve ever seen — I repeat, as exciting as anything I’ve ever seen.
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Jennifer Ludden, NPR
“The boomer generation that has grown up with e-mail, cell phones and video cameras is now using all of these things to help care for their aging parents. That’s leading to some odd dinnertime scenes, like the one that plays out every evening in the ranch house of Edward and Lavinia Fitzgerald in Savannah, Ga.
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John Morrissey, H&HN
“The electronic medical record at University Health System is never out of reach for clinicians doing their work. Whether they’re pushing a laptop on a cart or using a wireless computer tablet, the data just comes and goes—no notes inked on hands for later, no detours to a workstation.
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Daniel J. Marino, H&HN
“While hospitals nationwide are taking a leading role in helping physicians implement electronic medical records, many do not have a clear plan for recouping the cost of their investment.
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Wendy S. Harpham, KevinMD
“Have you ever read what your physicians and nurses have written in your medical chart? If not, would you want to?
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Everyone in the industry is painfully aware of the state of hospitals today, even before the economic recession sent healthcare providers down a darker, deeper spiral. Add healthcare reform and the federal incentives for the meaningful use of health IT to the mix, and you’ve got major changes that would make mere survival monumental.
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Armin Scheuer, HealthTech Wire
“Hyderabad’s airport is a symbol of India’s economic success: organized, modern, efficient. The city is host to this year’s eIndia, the country’s largest ICT event – with a dedicated track on eHealth. The question is, what are the opportunities for eHealth in India? I am here to find out.
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Ken Terry, BNET
“Emergency-room crowding is getting worse, and that’s likely to continue unless we find better ways to make sure more Americans can actually get in to see non-emergency doctors — a big but generally underrecognized problem that won’t be fixed by healthcare reform as it’s currently structured.
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aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Uno de los aspectos que más preocupa a organismos profesionales y administraciones sanitarias a la hora de implantar servicios de eSalud es el mantenimiento de la debida privacidad de los pacientes.
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esante.gouv.fr
“Les personnes fragilisées pourront alors, si elles le désirent, demeurer sur leur lieu de vie grâce au développement des technologies pour un suivi a distance et sécurisé de leur santé (Télésanté-E-santé = Télémédecine +Assistance à la personne).
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