The Subtle Influence
“While teaching a session on Twitter and blogs for healthcare at the Center for Public Health at the Berkeley School of Public Health I met a two employees from Practice Fusion who invited me to their office to talk about their EHR on the web.
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Jean-Jacques Fraslin, i-Med
“En mars 2010 de nombreux articles de presse se faisaient l’écho d’une avancée révolutionnaire dans le domaine de l’e-santé. Grace à une formidable initiative parlementaire, une Loi allait être votée incessamment et, à défaut du DMP promis pour le 1er juillet 2007, la France allait prochainement expérimenter le Dossier Médical Baladeur sur clé USB !
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iHealthbeat
“Fifty percent of health care providers have adopted a “comprehensive” or “partial” electronic health record system
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Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat
“The patient-centered medical home concept has been around since 1967, when it was first introduced by the American Academy of Pediatrics. More than 40 years later, widespread implementation has yet to occur, but the health reform law and the “meaningful use” incentives have given the concept new legs.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“I finally decided to do something about the leg tendon that has been aggravating me since mid-summer.
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Microsoft News Center
“Microsoft Corp. and iSoftStone Information Technology (Group) Co. Ltd. have signed an agreement that enables iSoftStone to introduce Microsoft HealthVault technology to the Chinese market. HealthVault, a personal health application platform, enables individuals to store and manage their health information in a personal, online account. Initially focused on Wuxi, in the province of Jiangsu, the vision of the Microsoft-iSoftStone relationship is to enable citizens to connect to various health systems and services run by government organizations, physicians, hospitals, pharmacies and even fitness facilities for a comprehensive view of their personal health information.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I recently sat down with Jeff Donnell from NoMoreClipboard. We had a fascinating all around conversation, but one of the most fascinating things he told me was the story of his last visit to his doctor’s office. I’ll do my best to recount what he told me.
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France FR. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010
eHealth platform is the official federal network in Belgium (created by law on 21 August 2008) devoted to a secure exchange of health data in many types of applications, such as health care purposes, simplification of administrative procedures and contribution to health policy. It implies a controlled access to decentralized databases and uses encrypted personal data. The national identification number has been chosen in order to authenticate the requester, the patient, and the receiver of information exchange. Authorizations have to be respected in order to obtain personal health data.
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Collins SA et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010
Purpose
Effective interdisciplinary exchange of patient information is an essential component of safe, efficient, and patient-centered care in the intensive care unit (ICU). Frequent handoffs of patient care, high acuity of patient illness, and the increasing amount of available data complicate information exchange. Verbal communication can be affected by interruptions and time limitations. To supplement verbal communication, many ICUs rely on documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) to reduce errors of omission and information loss. The purpose of this study was to develop a model of EHR interdisciplinary information exchange of ICU common goals.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“Providers and policymakers working hard to transition the healthcare sector to EHRs might not want to think about this, but at least one longtime observer of HIT is suggesting that EHRs have already had their day and it’s time to move on to something new.
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Mariette DiChristina, Scientific American
“The machine-human connection ran like a titanium thread through several of today’s TED MED sessions.”
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Jon Meyer, KevinMD
“Looking at the industry response to the recent study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change, Physicians Slow to E-mail Routinely with Patients – Issue Brief No. 134, it appears that a piece of the puzzle is missing. Both the study, and the analysis, put the physician at the center of the email debate. In reality, about 30% of a medical practice’s communication is from the doctor.
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e-Health Europe
“As part of the European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe the Commission aims to provide patients secure access to digital health records by 2015.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“This is a report from Washington, DC-based Center for Studying Health System Change that looks at physician use of e-mail with patients, based on a regularly administered tracking survey of physicians.
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Juliana Gruenwald, NextGov
“A new study released Thursday found that up to 50 percent of healthcare providers have either adopted electronic health records or are partially using them.
The study released by CompTIA found that 34 percent of healthcare providers now use a “comprehensive” electronic health records system and 16 percent said they are using a partial system.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“EMRs keep on proving their mettle in the area of care coordination.
The latest evidence comes from Kaiser Permanente Colorado, which improved outcomes by mining its EMR and electronic disease registries to match patients with heart disease to clinical pharmacy specialists and “personalized” nurses.
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Medical News Today
“Nine southern African countries and donors have gathered in Namibia for the second regional leadership Health Information Systems (HIS) meeting to discuss “how recipient countries should take ownership of these systems,” New Era reports (Sasman, 10/26). Participant countries “will work together to develop country specific strategies to strengthen their national HIS and prepare a country-led action plan,” writes the Southern Times.
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Alain Clergeot, La Santé dans la Cité
“Depuis deux jours on nous rebat les oreilles avec la télémédecine sans préciser d’ailleurs que ce décret (n°2010-1229) publié le 19 octobre dernier définissait le terme télémédecine apparu dans la loi HPST (Hôpital Patients Santé Territoires) du 21 juillet 2009.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Last week we wrote about the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s report on mobile health apps adoption, which the research group pegged at 9 percent among US adults with mobile phones.
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Michael Martineau, Technology for Doctors
“My father purchased his first computer a year before his 70th birthday. Like many people, my father’s main reason for this purchase was his desire to access the Internet from home.
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