Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Identity management in healthcare was a hot topic at the Smart Card Alliance 9th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference held last week in Washington. Controlling access to healthcare records, particularly when it comes to consent, was an issue recognized by experts as requiring more innovation.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The intelligent use of medical data is a foundation stone for the dramatic changes coming to healthcare. Patient treatment, doctors’ and hospitals’ business models, and the role of government in regulation and reimbursement are all undergoing profound changes, and heated debate – but the underpinning to all of this is the availability of aggregated, interoperable medical data.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“There is an ever increasing disease-burden gap between developing and developed countries. Consequently, people involved in health care industry are thinking of ways to develop and implement effective healthcare technologies to curb this gap.
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Khanyisa Sunduzwayo, WeekendPost
“Government nurses across the country could find their work a little easier if a new mobile health information system (MHIS) being tried by the Health Department in various Nelson Mandela Bay hospitals is rolled out nationally.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“Microsoft has done a U-turn on its approach to its HealthVault personal healthcare platform in the US, abandoning efforts to make a profit out of the system.
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Siegler EL. Annals of Internal Medicine, 153(10)
Form dictates content, and the manner of recordkeeping imposed on us probably influences how we think about patients. At The New York Hospital, physicians began to maintain permanent patient case records in the early 1800s. Originally proposed and valued as teaching cases for medical students, these freeform patient records varied in quality and often reflected not just the medical care of the time but also the personalities of the physicians composing them.
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Rohan Aurora
“I recently came across a very interesting abstract in a latest issue of the journal Lab on a Chip. Furthermore, I found its full research manuscript at the free digital database PubMed Central. It encompassed details of a new biomedical device and techniques that would allow effective detection of biomarkers in a blood sample in a matter of minutes rather than days or weeks.
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Howard Solomon, IT World Canada
“Efforts to expand availability of health records online to everyone in the country have taken another step with the partnering of a major hospital and a national telecommunications medical services provider.
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PRLog
“South Korea, along with Japan and the Netherlands, is one of the few countries that prohibit the operation of profit-oriented hospitals. However, this trend is beginning to change with the first foreign, for-profit hospital being built in Songdo.
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Protima Advani, iHealthBeat
“CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT recently provided a critical clarification on “meaningful use” for hospitals and eligible professionals (EPs) that will make demonstrating the criteria more difficult. Their guidance states that hospitals and EPs must implement all the meaningful use functionalities of the certified electronic health record.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The market opportunity for mobile apps in the healthcare enterprise is currently $100 million, according to a recent report from Chilmark Research.
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“The privacy and security “tiger team” set up to resolve pressing issues for the Health IT Policy Committee is calling for standard authentication policies for direct electronic exchange of EHRs and other health data between providers when both sender and receiver know who the other party is.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“The rapid adoption of smartphones and now touch-screen tablets (e.g., iPad) by clinicians will trigger enormous growth in the use of mHealth Apps within healthcare enterprises, with the market for mHealth in the enterprise projected to reach $1.7B by end of year 2014.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“The federal stimulus funds aimed at expanding electronic medical record adoption in the U.S. seem to be having the intended effect, as a recent survey found that overall adoption rates rose about three percentage points from January to October.
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Michael J. West, EMR and HIPAA
“When, I was in residency at a large health system in Pennsylvania, several of the residents and interns got into the habit of templating hospital notes on their home computers the night before they would go in to see patients who were chronic players with multiple medical problems who would often stay for long times in the hospital. I’ll openly admit that I was one of the many who bought into the perceived need to make things more efficient in order to get out of the hospital sooner and have a better home life.
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Beacon Partners
“In this, our Third Quarter 2010 Industry Study, Beacon Partners set out to determine where healthcare organizations are in their journey toward Meaningful Use (MU), and to see if any are preparing for the long-term sustainability of their investments post American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) incentive dollars.
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Glasgow RE et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(12)
OBJECTIVE:
Internet and other interactive technology-based programs offer great potential for practical, effective, and cost-efficient diabetes self-management (DSM) programs capable of reaching large numbers of patients. This study evaluated minimal and moderate support versions of an Internet-based diabetes self-management program, compared to an enhanced usual care condition.
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Hébert PC, Sibbald B. CMAJ, 182(17)
Everyone, from the Prime Minister and Privacy Commissioner of Canada to veterans and their families, are crying foul over the alarming breach of Gulf War veteran Captain Sean Bruyea’s privacy.
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Carolyne Krupa, amednews
“Social networking websites and blogs can be an effective and efficient way to communicate, but the AMA is advising physicians and medical students to proceed with caution.
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Don Fluckinger, Health IT Pulse
“In a new report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) took a look at electronic health records (EHRs) as they relate to improving health care and cutting costs. It examines the stories of 15 health care providers that have formed integrated delivery systems (IDSs).
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