Keeley Wray, MassDevice
“A pregnant woman wants to monitor her baby’s activity in response to the foods she eats. She takes her smart phone, plugs in an ultrasound adapter and takes readings after every meal. She logs the contents of her meal and presto! Pattern recognition software tells her that her baby is unfavorably sensitive to dairy.
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Paul Christopher Webster, CMAJ News
“Billions of dollars are being squandered in Canadian purchasing of health software for reasons of industrial policy, which is leading to disastrous technical problems and vast overpayments to technology companies and consultants, critics say.
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Daphne Swancutt, KevinMD
“Two people in the United States just died in the last hour. Seventeen more will die in the next 7 to 8 hours. Over a year, that number will accumulate to about 7,000.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Costs for adopting an electronic health records system in an ambulatory practice could hit $120,000 per physician, with 84 percent of that cost ($101,250) being lost revenue from fewer patient encounters during the transition, according to a recent study.
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Joseph Kim, Medicine and Technology
“Are electronic health records (EHRs) safer than paper records? Or, will we see an increase in medical errors as clinicians switch from paper to electronic systems?
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Emmanuel Kessler, France info
“Vos données de santé sur Internet. Avec plus de trois ans de retard, le carnet de santé en ligne va être disponible dans les prochains jours pour les patients qui le voudront. C’est ce qu’indique ce matin Le Figaro. Alors à quoi va ressembler ce dossier médical personnel ?
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Denise Silber's Blog
“Selon la nouvelle synthèse de Susannah Fox (Pew Foundation) portant sur les patients atteints du cancer voire de maladies chroniques en général, les études confirment les points suivants.”
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“Last week PCAST (The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) issued a major report — “Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward”.
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“It was with great interest that I read about the the recommendation for a universal exchange language in the recent release of the US report to the President: REALIZING THE FULL POTENTIAL OF HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE HEALTHCARE FOR AMERICANS: THE PATH FORWARD.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“In a new study of adult care visits, which found that patients are visiting multiple sites for care, researchers reveal the extent to which medical information has become fragmented. Because of the increased risk of medical errors and adverse events this makes a strong case for health IT investment, say its authors.
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Joseph Kim, Medicine and Technology
“What is a physician technologist? You won’t find this job description too often. There is no formal medical specialty that gives anyone the title or designation of “physician technologist.”
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“Early results from an annual survey of provider practices show that more than half of the physicians who responded use at least partial EHRs in their offices, slightly higher than the 2009 figure of 48.3 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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eGovMonitor
“At a press conference in the German Federal Ministry of Economics and technology (BMWi), the consortium partners of the ‘Partnership for the Heart’ project presented the results of an up to now worldwide unique clinical study on the effectiveness of telemedicine in chronic heart failure.
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Chris Swingle, Democrat and Chronicle
“The 10-county Rochester area is a leader in the state when it comes to sharing patients’ medical records electronically across different places where care or testing is provided — such as hospitals, labs, imaging facilities and doctors’ offices.
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“Trois ans et demi après la date prévue, ce dossier virtuel en ligne, destiné à mieux coordonner les soins, est prêt.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Results from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) show that between 2009 and 2010, the percentage of physicians reporting having an electronic medical record/electronic health record (EMR/EHR) system that meets the criteria of a basic system increased by 14% and a fully functional system increased by 46%.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“MedVirginia, a Richmond, Va.-based health information exchange, is now linked to the virtual lifetime electronic record, a collaboration between the healthcare systems of the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments and civilian healthcare systems, the organization has announced.
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Scott Schumacher, Mastering Data Management
“Last week, I testified at the Office of the National Coordinator’s Privacy and Security Tiger Team hearings. (View my colleague Lorraine Fernandes’ preview and recap.)
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Diabetes Mine
“Today Medtronic announces what is sure to be the first of a whole new generation of diabetes management software: its CareLink® Pro 3.0 Therapy Management Software — the first system to include algorithms capable of analyzing data from a patient’s insulin pump, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device, and blood glucose meter “to identify the most important patient information in one easy-to-use dashboard.”
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David C. Kibbe, Care And Cost
“In a December 8 report, “Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward,” the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) urgently recommend departing from much current HIT practice in America’s hospitals, doctors’ offices, pharmacies, labs, and patient’s homes. PCAST calls on ONC to accelerate making health data easily accessible, interpretable by computers, and searchable on the web.
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