Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“Here’s a definition for e-health from Canada:
{A]n overarching term used to describe the application of information and communications technologies in the health sector. It encompasses a range of purposes from purely administrative through to health care delivery.
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ITU
“eHealth systems that use information and communication technologies for the delivery of healthcare services and information hold great promise for improving global access to healthcare services and health information, particularly in the developing world.
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Jason Miller, Federal News Radio
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology wants to make exchanging electronic health records as easy as sending an e-mail.
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John Brosky, AuntMinnie
“Earlier this month, France went online with the long-awaited Dossier Médical Personnel (DMP) program by opening a portal to enable physicians in five pilot regions to create electronic health records (EHRs) for patients.
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EMR Daily News
“The most positive aspect of the 2011 National Physicians Survey is that a significant majority of responding physicians do not feel negative about the impact of Electronic Medical Records on patient care.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, KevinMD
“One of the most promising uses of Electronic Health Records (EHR) is research.
As EHRs become more and more widespread and the clinical data previously held in silos of paper charts becomes fluid, exchangeable and duly collected, large clinical repositories should emerge and be made available to those engaged in research, presumably medical research.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“In their January 10th-11th meeting, the HIT Standards Committee Implementation Workgroup met to review progress toward adoption of Meaningful Use by clinicians and hospitals. Numerous perspectives were heard, from provider organizations, hospitals, vendors and others.
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Hal Amens, EHR Bloggers
“The cost for collection and processing of data is a significant part of the budget for a typical medical research project. Use of data that is already being collected for other purposes provides opportunities to improve the quality of the available data, reduce the cost of obtaining it and minimize the time required to get it to the analysts. Here’s where EMR systems can help.
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Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
“Those new gizmos doctors are using — electronic medical records, e-prescribing systems, image databases that can store X-ray images digitally, even telemedicine — have a lot of allure. Medical groups and hospitals are adopting the technologies, hoping they’ll bring organization and efficiency, minimize errors, save money and ultimately make patients healthier.
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IT News Africa
“South Africa’s healthcare is poised for a major revolution this year. Millions of MTN subscribers will be able to access a range of healthcare services on their mobile handsets without the inconvenience of travelling to a healthcare facility.
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Kathy Jones, Medindia
“Technology for personal health information needs to be designed with the patient in mind.
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J.M. Graham, MedHealthWorld
“EHR vendors and electronic records users have an opportunity to shape the Stage 2 guidelines and criteria for meaningful use by submitting their comments to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) between now and Feb. 25. Comments should be based on the preliminary set of HITPC recommendations for meaningful use criteria that is available on their website.
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Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“Arthur Kellermann, the director of the Rand Health unit of nonprofit policy-research group Rand Corp., stopped by Health Blog HQ today for a chat.
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Alida Budding - Hennink, Medicalfacts
“De medewerkers van de Spoedeisende Hulp ziekenhuis St Jansdal in Harderwijk weten sinds 19 januari precies in welke medische toestand patiënten op hun spoedeisende hulp aankomen. Ambulancemedewerkers van Connexxion Ambulancezorg kunnen namelijk al tijdens de rit naar het ziekenhuis belangrijke gegevens van de patiënt digitaal aan het ziekenhuis doorsturen.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Just as there are anecdotes about the liabilities of EMRs, there are stories about the benefits. In McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, healthcare providers are talking positively about the implementation of EMRs.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“In an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal this week, US President Barack Obama wrote that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set for reform: “Tomorrow the FDA will lay out a new effort to improve the process for approving medical devices, to keep patients safer while getting innovative and life-saving products to market faster,” President Obama wrote Tuesday.
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Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“Federal authorities have taken another small step toward a goal of making electronic health records systems interoperable and paving the way toward secure national health information exchange.
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online
“Many early adopters of EMRs are moving to new ones in an effort to keep pace with technology. The Family Health Organization (FHO) in the Kingston, Ont. area is one example. At the end of January, the rural practice is moving from a 10-year-old EMR to xwave’s Web-based hosted EMR in an effort to find a stable, future-proof solution.
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TED
“Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what’s useful? At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools — like virtual autopsies — for analyzing this myriad data, and a glimpse at some sci-fi-sounding medical technologies in development. This talk contains some graphic medical imagery. (Recorded at TEDxGöteborg, November 2010, in Göteborg, Sweden. Duration: 16:37)”
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