Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ online survey results released last week, the 1,000 physicians polled are very interested in using mobile devices for a number of clinical tasks. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute, “Healthcare Unwired” report found that 83 percent of the physicians surveyed are interested in prescribing medication via their mobile devices.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“One of the key early findings of the planning group was that the adoption of the EHR would change their care paradigm. ”For the clinicians and staff, the changes would require a fundamental shift in the way they view their relationship with the patient.
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Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“Rather too many premature articles have been written about Google Health’s demise. Now before I get in trouble here, Mr Nolan, I’d like to acknowledge that most observers think that Microsoft Healthvault has done a rather more aggressive job of courting partners within “traditional” health care.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Google Health has seemingly been stuck in neutral almost from the start. Despite the fanfare of Google’s Eric Schmidt speaking at the big industry confab, HIMSS a couple of years back, an initial beta release with healthcare partner Cleveland Clinic and a host of partners announced once the service was opened to the public in May 2008, Google Health just has not seemed to live up to its promise.
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rteston, Buzz e-sante
“La multiplication des sites liés à la santé au cours des dernières années a entraîné un nouveau phénomène : le cybercondriaque.
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Nuria FeSalud, PESCA
“Tras el anuncio de la UCLA del lanzamiento de un microscopio sin lentes que podemos acoplar a un teléfono móvil para realizar estudios anatomo-patológicos basados en telemedicina ahora es el iPhone el que se apunta a la microscopía móvil.
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Don Fluckinger, Health IT Pulse
“Today, Motorola Inc. released the MC-75A0-HC, an enterprise digital assistant, or EDA — basically, its name for its line of ruggedized personal digital assistants (PDAs).
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Peter Schmidt, DrChrono.com
“There’s a specialty in medicine where health IT has already revolutionized their practice. In this specialty, successful, profitable software companies sell generally appreciated products that increase practice revenue and shorten their workdays. What’s the specialty? Radiology.
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Ideaworks
“Researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, have created a hi-tech robotic wheelchair that can be controlled with the power of thought. Well, not quite – the chair actually works by sharing control between a users’s brain and artificial intelligence. The scientists hope that their development will eventually give paralysed patients greater mobility.
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Senate of the Philippines
“The Congressional Commission on Science Technology and Engineering (COMSTE) has identified the significance of information and communications technologies (ICT), through Telemedicine, as a vital tool in delivering basic health services to remote areas throughout the country.
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Mid e-news
“”Le point de vue de Philippe Ameline, Ingénieur des Mines et spécialiste de la gestion des connaissances en santé.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Last week, as you probably know from reading today’s issue, I was in San Diego, where I was a keynote speaker at the mHealth Initiative’s 2nd International mHealth Networking Conference.
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Gilles Frydman, e-patients.net
“I hope this blog post can be a modest contribution to this debate, by raising the awareness about the very real risk of a new and serious data divide, just as Susannah is saying “Mobile was the final front in the access revolution. It has erased the digital divide. A mobile device is the internet for many people.
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Fred Fortin, Innovation@HMSA
“As the country moves to stimulate the adoption of electronic medical records in order to achieve all the good things for health care we think will follow – better coordination of care, improved quality, less errors, etc. – we also need to re-imagine what these electronic records should look like.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is a central goal of federal health IT policy. In order to encourage this, significant funding has been aimed at building a network of Regional Extension Centers (RECs) that are intended to reach out to ambulatory practitioners and help them implement EHR systems in their practices.
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kruResearch
“E-Patient Dave” delivers the truth about empowered patients.
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Lee Aase, Mayo Clinic Center For Social Media
“When we announced formation of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media in late July, Scott Johnson was among those who wrote to express their support.
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Concord Monitor
“New Hampshire health care providers are ahead of the curve when it comes to switching from paper medical records to electronic record keeping. Most medical offices and testing labs have made the switch. Health care providers swivel from patient to computer to check their medical history and enter new information.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“To figure out why physicians and hospitals are slow to adopt electronic medical records, researchers are looking at institutional and social networks to see if they can discover the key to overcoming resistance.
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Health News Gate
“At intervals, I’ve posted about the dangers associated with electronic health records (EHRs), due not to the basic concept which most agree is excellent, but to the too-often slipshod implementation, especially as the software industry moves in to capitalize on the promised bonanza.
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