Dan Bowman, FierceEMR
“National health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal welcomed providers and health IT vendors alike into the “era of meaningful use” at last week’s eHealth Initiative Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C.
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Peter Buxbaum, Government Health IT
“The Army’s Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) organization is getting ready for the day when mobile devices such as smartphones may be fielded to soldiers.
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Matt Rosoff, Business Insider
“If Google Health really made it easy to organize your medical records in one place it might be useful.
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Susannah Fox, e-Patients.net
“The Pew Internet Project recently issued a short report noting that people living with disability are less likely than other adults in the U.S. to use the internet: 54%, compared with 81%.
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Dietmar Krause, Weblog Medizin IT und Telemedizin
“Am 11. Januar hat das Bundesgesundheitsministerium die „Dritte Verordnung zur Änderung der Verordnung über Testmaßnahmen für die Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte“ veröffentlicht.
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Thomas McMennamin, EHR Bloggers
“American exceptionalism is the notion that there is something special about the United States that has successfully set us apart from every other country on Earth.
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Laurie Orlov, Aging In Place Technology Watch
“National Alliance for Caregiving’s study — very revealing. In January, NAC published a report sponsored by United Healthcare which surveyed how caregivers view technology.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“According to a survey of IT managers at health delivery organizations, 51% of respondents said they don’t protect patient data used in software development and testing.
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Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“According to GlobalData’s new report, “Electronic Medical Records (EMR) – Global Opportunity Assessment, Competitive Landscape and Market Forecasts to 2016” the global electronic medical records (EMR) market is forecast to grow at a 12% Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) to reach $9,123m by 2016.
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EMR Daily News
“VMware, Inc., announced today that they are seeing growing momentum for desktop virtualization with VMware View™ as healthcare organizations look to safely accelerate the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR/EMR) systems and meet “Meaningful Use” targets.
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TEDMED
“Your medical chart: it’s hard to access, impossible to read — and full of information that could make you healthier if you just knew how to use it. At TEDMED, Thomas Goetz looks at medical data, making a bold call to redesign it and get more insight from it.”
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medGadget
“Lab-on-chips are said to be the future of clinical diagnostics. While the technology is still not yet commercially available, researchers are already improving on it to make it even more portable and affordable.
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Eileen O'Brien, SirenSong
“Part of the transformation of health care is the new technology that allows smartphones to be used for diagnosis and tracking medical concerns. These mobile apps do everything from monitoring heart beats to managing glucose levels. There were more than 7,000 health-related apps for the iPhone in September 2010 according to a MobiHealthNews study. With the popularity of the iPad these numbers are sure to grow.
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William Hersh, Informatics Professor
“The headlines have blared the news this week that a new study published in Archives of Internal Medicine showed that electronic health records (EHRs) in the ambulatory setting do not appear to lead to higher quality patient care [1].
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Zina Moukheiber, Forbes
“Another piece of technology that could have been co-opted by the private sector, but unfortunately hasn’t is an open source electronic health record (EHR) called VistA that the government developed 15 years ago at a cost of $8 billion. Obama briefly mentioned veterans being able to download their electronic medical records.
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EurActiv.com
“Depending on where you live, your local phone company is developing technologies to check your blood pressure and sugar level, and will even remind you to take your medicine.
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Valerie Watzlaf, Advance
“As an educator and researcher in health information management and epidemiology, I have spent many years examining the quality of documentation in the medical record for risk factors and other data elements that may be linked to specific diseases.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Physicians who want to qualify for stage 1 meaningful use incentives need to have electronic medical record systems that can accomplish all the tasks mentioned under the stage 1 rules — even the tasks doctors plan to defer accomplishing until a later time.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“While innovation, writ large, is an engine for economic growth, it’s especially going to positively impact many aspects of health and health care, based on GE’s Global Innovation Barometer 2011.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“I’ve written several posts about the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report on Health Information Technology.
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