Pierre Simon, esante.gouv.fr
“La télémédecine est un acte médical à distance qui permet aux patients d’améliorer leur parcours de soins et aux professionnels de santé l’organisation des soins.
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Emmanuel Cordonnier, esante.gouv.fr
“Les différents rapports sur la télémédecine et la télésanté s’accordent sur l’amélioration de la prise en charge sanitaire et sociale d’une part, et de création d’emplois industriels et de services d’autre part. Mais ils pointent le retard français sur le plan de l’usage des TIC dans la santé, en regrettant l’absence de grand champion français dans le domaine des dispositifs médicaux et des systèmes d’information de santé.
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Roger Shindell, Ezine articles
“These days, the U.S. government seems more intent than ever on encouraging practitioners to take active steps to improve the patient experience. Though the primary focus of this grand initiative has focused on electronic health records, there’s another form of technology that, if adopted, can benefit patients tremendously for the long haul: remote monitoring devices.
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Daniel Ghinn, Creation Interactive
“After finishing the day at the mHealth Conference 2010 conference in Dubai by moderating a panel exploring the commercial aspects of mHealth with a particular focus on start-ups, I was left with some new concepts to consider in global healthcare engagement.
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The Hindu
“Mobile wireless technologies have the potential to aid speedy disease detection, treatment, and monitoring in remote communities. When combined with the power of computers and special software, they can work in real time and enable interventions by health authorities to prevent communicable diseases from turning into epidemics.
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Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online
“The number of hospitals that have adopted EHR systems rose slightly from 8.7% to 11.9% between 2008 and 2009. Many see this growth as an indication that EHRs are finally taking hold in the medical community. However, as we all know, EHR adoption doesn’t necessarily translate to EHR meaningful use.
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3G Doctor Blog
“Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, has posted an article on his blog and MobiHealthNews in which he points to how mHealth “has taken on such a cult-like status among investors, industry and the media”
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Mike, eHealth Musings
“While Health Canada is moving ahead with licensing of health IT software as medical devices, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in the US is contemplating possible regulation of smartphone applications that monitor vital signs. The FDA appears to moving cautiously.
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John W. Loonsk, Healthcare IT News
“By now we all may be growing tired of the “it’s the economy, stupid” construction. What’s more, using it for health IT is not respectful of the many people who work in the area, because they are earnestly trying to improve health. But, in many respects, the “forest for the trees” kind of reset that the construction suggests is very appropriate now.
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John W. Sharp, eHealth
“Connected For HealthIn a new book edited by Louse Laing, the story of the comprehensive implementation of the EHR at Kaiser Permanent. The story begins in 2002 when George Halvorson, the new CEO, saw the need to implement the EHR not as a cost savings initiative but as a market differentiator. He laid down the challenge to accomplish this national implementation in 3 years.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed “MedWatcher,” a new iPhone application that provides drug safety surveillance in real-time.
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Vineet Arora, KevinMD
“I recently completed a two week tour of duty on the wards in July with new residents, interns, and students.
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aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Desde su lanzamiento hace un par de años Google Health no había experimentado una actualización tan profunda. El sistema nos permitía hasta el momento generar una HCE y un registro personal de nuestra salud, así como realizar un listado de nuestra medicación y su posología.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Here’s yet another meaningful use (to steal a phrase) of EMRs: assessing the health risks of premature babies.
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Max Harrold, The Gazette
“Saying “what’s up, doc?” to a physician on the phone instead of sitting around for hours in a hospital waiting room could save Quebec’s beleaguered public health care system a bundle, a Montreal economic think tank says.
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CNW
“Innovations such as telemedicine are a way of improving the efficiency of the health care system and enhancing the choices offered to patients. In an Economic Note published today by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), the authors say the current government monopoly in the health care sector has the adverse effect of eliminating most natural incentives for innovation and optimal use of resources. These characteristics are necessary, however, to promote the advance of new models of care like telemedicine.
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Zorgvisie
“RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) zou een kostenbesparing van 40 procent veroorzaken in de logistieke processen .
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Joanna Ptolomey, VIP LiveWire
“We all know that mobile phone use is increasing at a stellar rate – some recent LiveWire comment includes http://digbig.com/5bcjmk and http://digbig.com/5bcjmm. The Pew Institute recently reported that ‘mobile phone use in the US has increased dramatically over the past decade with eight in ten adults (82%) being users (http://digbig.com/5bcjkp).
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imran, biomedme.com
“In an article published in the Sept. 15 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, (JAMA), author Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, points out that although information underlies all clinical work, and despite the growing role that information management and access play in healthcare delivery and clinical support, there is a dearth of informatics competency being developed in America’s future corps of physicians.
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Shortliffe EH. JAMA, 304(11)
When I first meet with preclinical medical students, I make a point of asking them what they believe will receive the greatest focus of their attention once they are in clinical practice. The most common response, not surprisingly, is patients, and yet it is clear to experienced practitioners that the correct answer is information—in the service of their patients.
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