Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“I didn’t think it was possible. The people at Forbes are getting dumber.
A Forbes blog post titled “open source makes debut in health care” is making its rounds about the Internet this morning.
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Carolyne Krupa, amednews
“Every Wednesday afternoon, Thomas Magnuson, MD, goes to a designated room at the University of Nebraska Medical Center to meet with patients in nursing homes around the state via an interactive video screen.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“David Blumenthal, MD, head of ONC, was on hand last week to help announce the launch of EHRevent.org, a safety reporting system that will let healthcare providers report problems in the implementation and use of EHRs. It will serve as a tracking system so the industry can identify trends and react quickly.
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Mary K. Pratt, Computerworld
“It’s been 19 years since the prestigious Institute of Medicine urged greater adoption of computer systems in healthcare, and more than six years since then-President George W. Bush declared, “By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs and improve care.”
So, how are we doing so far?
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“Remember the penguin problem described by economists?
No one moves unless everyone moves, so no one moves.
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Ruiz IM et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(10)
The new paradigm of personal health demands open standards and middleware components that permit transparent integration and end-to-end interoperability from new personal health devices to healthcare information system. The use of standards seems to be the internationally accepted way to face this challenge. In this article, the implementation of an end-to-end standard-based personal health solution is presented.
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“They endured years of school and back-to-back hospital shifts to prepare them for making lifesaving decisions. But when 100 doctors recently packed a conference room at Overlook Hospital in Summit to learn how to use electronic medical records, more than a few described the task as “daunting.”
Not that they have a choice.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“Every day millions of Americans and billions of people around the globe are routinely accepting colorful pieces of paper in return for their labor and placing those hard earned possessions in modern glass buildings whose owners they do not know.
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Glueck DA. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 20(1)
Telepsychiatry is being increasingly adopted in private practice and is predicted to play an important role in increasing access to care in rural communities and other underserved areas. With the current level of need, it is unlikely that all of the required services can be fully met through existing telepsychiatry practitioners.
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Workflow Management
“Computerization of health records vis-à-vis electronic health records (EHR) or electronic medical records (EMRs) is arguably the most important healthcare information technology (IT) trend these days.
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Blog de la SEIS - Foro Técnico
““La telemedicina vive un momento de gran efervescencia, ya que los sistemas sanitarios se han dado cuenta de que si quieren ser sostenibles tienen que introducir cambios importantes. Y estos sólo se pueden realizar con las nuevas tecnologías”, aseguró Adolfo Muñoz, experto del Instituto Calos III, que ha participado en la VIII Reunión Foro de Telemecina celebrada en San Sebastián, organizada por la Sociedad Española de Informática de la Salud (SEIS) en colaboración con el Departamento de Sanidad del Gobierno Vasco.
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Healthcare Informatics Research
“Whether the designation is electronic medical records (EMR) or electronic health records (EHR), there is widespread consensus that the costs and difficulties associated with system adoption are surpassed by the benefits to be gained by all stakeholders.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Healthcare Listens To Social Media Patients often reveal more details about their medical conditions in discussions on social networks, blogs, and other online forums than they share with their doctors. They talk about their experience with illness and the medications they’re taking in more detail. They bring up issues they don’t realize are relevant to their treatment or that they’re too embarrassed to share face to face.
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Leslie Scism, Mark Maremont, WSJ
“Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people’s longevity.
Insurers have long used blood and urine tests to assess people’s health—a costly process.
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Dominic Tyer, InPharm
“The European Commission wants all European patients to be given secure online access to their medical records by 2015 and is poised to begin piloting the technology that will make this happen.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“A survey of 183 physicians reveals that only 16% said they electronically send patient records when referring patients to another provider. The findings come from a study conducted by Growth Survey Research on behalf of electronic health record (EHR) provider Practice Fusion.
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Jens Dommel, Microsoft Europe
“I am proud to announce the launch in Germany of Assignio, a health platform powered by Microsoft HealthVault.. The platform, which will be operated and marketed by Siemens IT Solutions, marks a change in the way individuals can approach their health and wellness and will steer the German health sector in a new direction.
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Zina Moukheiber, Forbes
“It is taking a surprisingly long time for companies that sell electronic health records (EHRs)—a backbone of hospitals and soon of doctors’ offices, to learn that lesson. A “closed” mentality still permeates the health care IT business. Now Allscripts is finally taking a step toward open source.
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HealthFinch
“Over the past several years, the media and users of Facebook have identified and voiced concern over multiple issues related to the privacy of personal information. This includes concerns over the longevity with which Facebook will store and “own” the information shared by its users and how individuals and other applications can access this information.
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NEHTA News
“NEHTA today called for proposals from general practice clinical desktop software suppliers wishing to support the Federal Government’s first eHealth implementation sites in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The Request for Proposal will establish a panel of general practice clinical desktop vendors interested in working with NEHTA and the site project teams to incorporate new national eHealth specifications and standards into their existing products.
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