Emma Schwartz, The Center for Public Integrity
“Nearly two years after the Obama administration announced plans to spend $40 billion to help doctors and hospitals adopt electronic medical records, government officials are still grappling with how best to regulate these systems to assure patient safety. And a meeting this week made it clear firm rules are still many months away.
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Alicia Ault, Internal Medicine News
“A new study by the Association of Community Cancer Centers finds that very few hospitals are monitoring readmissions or following up with discharged patients.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report this month ambitiously titled “REALIZING THE FULL POTENTIAL OF HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE HEALTHCARE FOR AMERICANS: THE PATH FORWARD”, complete with current state of HIT analysis and authoritative recommendations to ONC, CMS and HHS on how to proceed going forward.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“HITECH’s Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements started their year-plus journey through federal advisory committees, regulation writers, public comment, and countless revisions after a draft set of recommendations were floated for discussion at this month’s HIT Policy Committee meeting.
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Tobin Arthur, KevinMD
“Once a provider realizes the increasing importance of building and managing their online reputation, they need some practical tools and steps.
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Tom Sullivan, ICD10 Watch
“CMS has likened the compliance deadline for ICD-10 to the flip of a switch. Once October 1, 2013 comes, the new code sets will be mandatory and the predecessor no longer accepted. But that doesn’t mean healthcare organizations will be entirely free of all those ICD-9 codes.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
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Bemelmans R et al, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2010
The ongoing development of robotics on the one hand and, on the other hand, the foreseen relative growth in number of elderly individuals suffering from dementia, raises the question of which contribution robotics could have to rationalize and maintain, or even improve the quality of care.
The objective of this review was to assess the published effects and effectiveness of robot interventions aiming at social assistance in elderly care.
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Press Releases RAPID
“Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Washington to promote a common approach on the interoperability of electronic health records and on education programmes for information technology and health professionals. Common standards and interoperability stand to create huge growth opportunities for the eHealth industry as well as having a positive impact on the safety and quality of care.
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Bach A et al, The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 110(10)
During the past couple decades, the use of the word perfect with electronic medical record (EMR) has been almost oxymoronic. Some physicians and hospital staff love their EMR systems, others hate their EMR systems to the point where they ignore them and use paper instead, and still others will not even consider trying such systems. To design the “perfect” EMR system, one must take into account the interests of a number of key stakeholders—hospitals and emergency departments, physicians in private practice, insurance companies, pharmacies, and, most importantly, patients.
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The Times of India
“Four-month-old Tabassum is tearful; squishy liquids are being dropped into her eyes and bright lights shined onto them. Despite her very vocal discomfort, the doctors peering at the images of her retina played out on a computer screen in a Bangalore hospital are upbeat — the blood vessels growing out on her retina are progressing well, there is no danger now of the tiny infant going blind.
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Don Kemper, eHealth Initiative Blog
“In 2002, Molly Mettler and I coauthored the book, Information Therapy. Shortly thereafter, Healthwise created the Center for Information Therapy (Ix Center) and the Ix Action Alliance to strengthen the delivery of health care—through the art, science, and practice of prescribing the right information to the right person at the right time.
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aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Así, como muestra este gráfico, ha crecido el interés por la eSalud en la Web desde que nació Somos Medicina en agosto de 2008. Se aprecia un claro aumento de las búsquedas sobre “eSalud” a través de Google, que hoy por hoy es el principal buscador en nuestro medio.
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Jack Moore, ExecutiveGov
“A slew of recent polls carry optimistic results for electronic health record adoption. Wait, scratch that. New survey results are disastrous for the health IT forecast.
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Kate Taylor, TG Daily
“Researchers surveyed the Facebook activities of 405 postgraduate trainee doctors at Rouen University Hospital in France and found that almost three out of four had a Facebook profile. One in four logged on to the site several times a day, and half logged on several times a week.
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Moubarak G et al, Journal of Medical Ethics, 37(2)
Aim
Facebook is an increasingly popular online social networking site. The purpose of this study was to describe the Facebook activity of residents and fellows and their opinions regarding the impact of Facebook on the doctor-patient relationship.
Methods
An anonymous questionnaire was emailed to 405 residents and fellows at the Rouen University Hospital, France, in October 2009.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Leaders of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, in Newport Beach, California, announced Wednesday that the hospital has connected 250 providers to its health information exchange (HIE) five months after beginning rollout.
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“Six of the nation’s leading healthcare systems—Cleveland Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Denver Health, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare and Mayo Clinic will join the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in a collaboration to improve healthcare quality while reducing costs.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
The only way for improving our citizens health status is to prevent diseases by engaging citizens to improving their lifestyle, to set up dedicated preventive programs to citizens at risk due to individual or family dispositions, to improve quality and safety of citizens if becoming patients, to optimize the care process towards higher efficiency, to optimize aftercare and rehabilitation. Such program requires a comprehensive view on health, optimal collaboration and cross-fertilization between the different health services and the multidisciplinary domains they represent. Such a comprehensive and interdisciplinary health services approach doesn’t work without the application of advanced technology.
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Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTconsequences
“Recently, EUROSTAT has published the results from ICT usage household survey 2010. I have been analysing these data developing a Digital Health Care Demand in Europe and I would like also to share my analysis of “individuals who used the Internet for seeking health information on injury, disease or nutrition” (European Union 27 Member States), inspired by The Power of Mobile written by Susannah Fox.
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