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El cuaderno de bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“Ayer, Miguel Ángel Máñez escribió otra de sus magníficas entradas que ha generado un interesantísimo debate que os recomiendo mucho leer.
Uno de los artículos que motivan el post se titula: “Wikipedia: una herramienta clave para la promoción de la salud pública global” (de la genial y muy recomendable JMIR). En la que se pone en debate el uso de Wikipedia para consultar información sobre salud.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Health Information, Search
Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“The address by US Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Florida, [daily reports here] ought to be compulsory reading for Australia’s federal and state politicians – and for that matter the committed critics and vested interests that consistently undermine ehealth progress in Australia.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Technology
Matthew Herper, Forbes
“Twenty-two years ago Francis Collins, who would go on to head the Human Genome Project and run the National Institutes of Health, was part of a team that found the gene that, when mutated, caused cystic fibrosis, a deadly childhood disease in which the lungs fill with mucus and the pancreas does not make digestive enzymes.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Genetics, Orphan Disease, Personalised Medicine, Pharmaceutical
Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“Physicians adopting electronic health records systems need to demonstrate to their patients that they’re taking adequate steps to keep records secure because so many consumers are worried about health information privacy.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Patient, Personal Health Information, Privacy, Security
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Hospitals may face problems when it comes to getting patients to use electronic medical records, which could prevent them from meeting criteria for Stage 2 of meaningful use, according to a new report by PwC Health Research Institute.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Hospitals, Meaningful Use, Patient
Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“As he prepares to step down as leader of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, David Blumenthal is calling for stepped-up efforts to protect the privacy of patient information, especially as more electronic health records are created and exchanged.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Interoperability, Privacy, Trust
Caroline Alphonso, Globe and Mail
“Canada may have a state-run health-care system, but the federal government is noticeably reticent when it comes to providing medical information online.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tags: Health Information, Internet, Search
John, EMR and HIPAA
“One of the most disappointing parts of HIMSS for me is that the really creative and disruptive innovations are missing from HIMSS. There are a few items I saw like the Shareable Ink technology, some of the Nuance NLP/voice recognition work, and a pretty cool biometric kiosk by Fujitsu (which I’ll blog about later).
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Innovation
PRNewswire
“Hospitals are spending billions of dollars on health information technology tools required for “meaningful use” of electronic medical records (EMR), but unless patients use them, hospitals may not reap the federal stimulus payments they’re hoping for.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, emr, Meaningful Use
TechJournal South
“The lack of common interoperability standards and inconsistent approaches to security, privacy and trust are perpetuating an antiquated U.S. health care delivery system that has been largely unable to benefit from the widespread adoption of IT, according to Verizon’s top security and health care executive.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Technology, Interoperability, Standards
Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“Doctors’ views of electronic medical records are not getting any rosier.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Physicians
Science Centric
“An electronic health record system should be the backbone of health care reform in Canada and more must be done to speed up the implementation of this initiative across the country. Furthermore for this system to be put in place effectively, doctors and front line health care workers and administrators must be encouraged to play a more active role.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Adoption, Primary Care
David Blumenthal, HHS
“All of us who are working to achieve adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) throughout our health care system know that the journey is a long one. There will be many milestones along the way, each one hard-earned. But I believe that when we look back on the road we traveled, the year 2011 will stand out not merely as one more milestone, but as the time when medical care entered a new era – the age of meaningful use of health information.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use
Maureen Salamon, MSN
“Scientists say they have developed a microchip that can be attached to a smart phone and diagnose cancerous tumors within an hour, from the patient’s bedside.
The so-called microNMR chip, which uses magnetic nanoparticles to measure proteins and other chemical compounds in tumors, requires only tiny amounts of tissue to make a diagnosis, researchers said.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Chip, mHealth, Oncology, smartphone
Jeri Kirschner, Vangent
“Participatory medicine, the idea of a real conversation between doctors and patients, was one of the most fascinating concepts discussed during the “provider edition” of Meet the Bloggers at HIMSS11. It will become an integral function to the continuum of care, not only used by patients and providers, but also caregivers and other healthcare professionals.
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24 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: participatory, phr, Social Media
David Ahn, KevinMD
“When working in the hospital, I intentionally minimize the time I spend on my iPhone because I don’t want people to assume that I’m just checking Facebook or playing Angry Birds.
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23 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, tablet PC
Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“Several major hospitals are failing to generate and print standardised wristbands for their patients, even though a deadline requiring them to so passed more than 18 months ago.
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23 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Hospitals, Wristband
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“More than 9,000 patients in Bradford had their Summary Care Record enriched without their consent, it has emerged.
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23 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Consent, summary-care-records
Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“The PCEHR being rolled out by NEHTA could work in tandem with private sector health records like Microsoft’s HealthVault and Google Health, the authority’s head of implementation, Lisa Smith, has told an Australian Information Industry Association e-health update in Sydney.
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23 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tags: Google-Health, HealthVault, phr
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“As the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline for ICD-10 implementation bears down, HIMSS11 attendees were assured Tuesday that there’s no need to panic.
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23 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: ICD-10
