John Moore, Chilmark Research
“In about an hour’s time I will head downtown to participate in yet another Commonwealth of Massachusetts HIE Consumer Workgroup meeting. The workgroup, formed by the Secretary of Health last Spring, is charged with insuring that the strategic HIE and more broadly, HIT plans for Massachusetts be inclusive of consumers’ future needs.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“The BMA in Scotland is calling for tighter controls on access to shared record information as the Scottish Parliament prepares to debate the introduction of clinical portal technology.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“I think something has been lost in the confusion about a national EHR system. After all, that’s the target right, a national system? We only unleash the power of EHR if we are able to make it work out outside of the provider’s four walls. Is it possible that perhaps the logic of how we have been viewing developing a solution for the problem is wrong? I think it is.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Massachusetts ranks first in the nation when it comes to the use of electronic prescribing, announced officials Tuesday at the Fifth Annual Safe-Rx Awards held on Capitol Hill. Nationwide the number of physicians using e-prescribing has grown to 200,000.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I knew that my previous post about the cost to update an EMR would bring out the people who like to back the SaaS EMR model versus those who like to back the Client Server EMR. As I’ve said before, it’s one of the most heated debates you can have in the EMR space.
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Mark Montgomery, Kyield
“For some time now I have been thinking about structures, classifications, compression, security, scaling, and synthesis of data for the anticipated big data storm just beginning to form in mobile health. Even with a healthy dose of de-hyped skepticism, the mobile health data storm promises record sustained winds, with much higher gusts.
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Carmen Juri, The Star-Ledger
“During a walk through St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, Angelo Schittone pauses in an office where patient records are stored. The rows and rows of file cabinets, chock full of confidential medical information, soon will be a thing of the past, he says.
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stevegonhit, HealthITExchange
“A newly released paper by four academic researcher comparing electronic health record adoption in the United States and European Union concludes that concerns over privacy of health record data remain the key obstacle to broader EHR use in the United States.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“When members of a federal advisory group suggested recently that the government shouldn’t be in the business of designing electronic health records, Rick Jung nearly fell out of his chair.
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“A new public education service in Kenya aims to increase knowledge about family planning. All one needs to access the service is a mobile phone. Launched in May 2010, the service, dubbed m4RH (Mobile for Reproductive Health), is taking advantage of the growing use of mobile phones and text messaging in Kenya to deliver automated information about reproduction.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The use of e-prescribing nearly tripled last year, but still only accounts for the minority of prescription transactions in the U.S., according to a new report.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Unplanned hospital readmissions cost Medicare $17.4 billion a year, and as many as 76 percent of these events are preventable, says the Center for Technology and Aging, citing a 2009 study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Four types of technologies–three of them with strong mobile components–could cut the 30-day readmission rate, currently at about 18 percent, by a third, the Oakland, Calif.-based organization says in a new report.
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Telecare Aware
“Technology devised by researchers at the University of Washington and the Georgia Institute of Technology uses a home’s copper electrical wiring as a giant antenna to receive wireless signals, allowing for the possibility of wireless sensors that run for decades on a single watch battery.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“The Electronic medical record (EMR) system has evolved from simple clinical reporting systems and is used to not only document patient reports, but also provide decision support for physicians. EMR intends to replace earlier systems, such as practice management systems (PMS). Though the EMR system inarguably offers the promise of quality health care, widespread adoption of this system is still lacking.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“Shahid, The Healthcare Guy, recently added a guest post from Nick van Terheyden, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer (Clinical Language Understanding) from Nuance Healthcare (Yes, they make Dragon Naturally Speaking – DNS) about making the most of speech recognition with an EMR.
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PHYSorg
“Cabin personnel taking a paseenger’s temperature using the Tempus IC telemedicine system. The data will be transmitted back to an expert medical team on the ground.
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Jean DerGurahian, HealthITExchange
“The Department of Veterans Affairs is pressing forward with its virtual lifetime electronic record initiative by opening a fourth pilot site for the program.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Privacy concerns remain the key obstacle in the widespread adoption of electronic health records in the U.S., according to researchers from the North Carolina State University.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Office for Human Research Protections in the Department of Health and Human Services has issued guidance governing data retention and other issues when a patient withdraws from a research study.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Let me kindly remind you that the position paper submission deadline for BIOSTEC 2011 will end in a week time, more exactly on September 27, which is a hard deadline. We would welcome a paper submission from you, describing relevant and innovative research work.
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