Philippa Hobbs, Telecoms.com
“According to Thierry Zylberberg, Executive Vice President and Head of Orange Healthcare Division at France Telecom, ‘mobile healthcare’ is ‘un mot valise’ – a ’suitcase word’ that combines multiple meanings.
[ More ]
Jamie Simpson, Article Intelligence
“Over the past 10 years, telemedicine has been used for treating diseases over the internet in third world countries. Dr. Ellen M. Einterz, of Cameroon, Africa, says it is a wonderful idea, but, she cautions that the “glitter of satellites could divert attention and funds from the grittier problems of health and health care on this continent.”
[ More ]
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced it will conduct a year-long study for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to identify best policies and practices for improving healthcare safety when using electronic health records.
[ More ]
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“This week I presented as part of the Mobile Health track at the ePatients Connections conference in Philadelphia. The track’s chair was the inimitable Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a noted health economist and commentator.
[ More ]
Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online
“An open-source EMR that was implemented in Belize by a Canadian team more than three years ago is showing results. “We put it in for a buck a citizen for the whole nation, and it runs all the clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and labs,” says Dr. Michael Graven (pictured), co-developer of the system and a neonatologist with the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.
[ More ]
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Kaiser Permanente spent about 16 years and millions of dollars developing its Convergent Medical Terminology for its own use. But now the healthcare provider is donating the CMT to the global health community — a dictionary of 75,000 medical terms and concepts for interoperable use among electronic health records.
[ More ]
Marketing 4 Health
“If you are on Twitter, you know that hashtags have a powerful way of uniting people with common interests. For months now, I have been following and participating in discussions with the hashtags #hcsm and #hcsmeu. I even subscribe to their paper.li daily e-newsletters here and here.
[ More ]
Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog
“Hospitals, doctors, and other clinicians can soon start receiving incentive payments under Medicare and Medicaid for making “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs). But before that can happen, the information technology systems they use must be capable of accomplishing specific objectives.
[ More ]
Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Online consultations could cut primary care surgery appointments by 40 per cent, a two-year pilot study by Mayo Clinic indicates.
[ More ]
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“If ever there was a compelling story in favor of EHR adoption, Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin told it at the 82nd annual AHIMA convention and exhibition.
[ More ]
GovMonitor
“Kaiser Permanente donated its Convergent Medical Terminology (CMT) to the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO©) for U.S. distribution through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) so that all health care providers—large and small—can benefit from the translation-enabling technology.
[ More ]
Mary Stevens, CMIO
“The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT has released 20 questions and answers in hopes of alleviating some of the confusion surrounding meaningful use of EHRs.
[ More ]
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Yesterday, HHS’s ONC announced the final two Regional Extension Centers (RECs), one in California and the other for the state of New Hampshire. Much like the Land Grant College Program and the much smaller Sea Grant Program, the HHS RECs have been established to assist in the appropriate adoption and use of technology, in this case EHRs.
[ More ]
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“A majority of medical students say their decision to take a job at a healthcare organization will be heavily weighted in favor of those that have adopted an electronic health record (EHR), according to a new survey.
[ More ]
Neil Versel, FierceHealthcare
“How hard or soft should a computerized physician order entry alert be?
The answer seems to be a moving target.
[ More ]
Peter Schmidt, DrChrono.com
“In order to get to ‘Meaningful Use’, we need to first get Provider’s to use an EHR to even hope to reach the level of obtaining meaningful use. Financial barriers are another reason why adoption is difficult to attain.
However, I believe that Provider’s do want to do the “right thing”, which is EHR use. I also believe that most Provider’s understand the utility of EHR’s and what progress it can bring to the healthcare field, but the problem lie’s mostly in human nature, that is ‘change’. Change takes work, energy, and time. We all get used to doing things a certain way without much thought.”
Article
Peter Schmidt, DrChrono.com, 29 September 2010
Pinciroli F et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 9(3)
The diffusion of smart cards within the health field is common in many countries and regions throughout the world. Italy’s Regione Lombardia enjoys one of the more successful applications of health information technology in Europe, and the current state of its accomplishments is examined in this article.
[ More ]
Don Fluckinger, Health IT Pulse
“This year we’ve heard a lot of conference speakers and seen many online and print experts pontificate about whose job it is to sell patients on the value of personal health records (PHRs). In theory, PHRs could be a boon to health care quality, as patients become empowered by having more information they can share when they go from practitioner to practitioner.
[ More ]
Musings by Seref Arikan
“The web is swallowing everything in the software world. Everything from accounting applications to clinical apps are turning into web applications. The trend is there, and it is so strong, that betting on emergence of a web based application for pretty much anything is possible now.
[ More ]
John, EMR and EHR
“Seeing the legislative process first hand I must admit that it’s a bit overwhelming to see the volume of legislation that they put out which is all done in this pretty cryptic legalese and full of pages of useless recaps and other fluff.
[ More ]
