Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“A survey of more than 800 physicians across multiple specialties found that many doctors are willing to use personal health records in their practices, despite their skepticism of the benefits.
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Meaningful HIT News with Neil Versel
“Since last summer, various government agencies, notably the Department of Veterans Affairs, have been touting the Blue Button Initiative as an easy way of sharing electronic data with patients. Just click the blue button in the patient EHR portal and download data into a personal health record or a printout. Sounds simple enough.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Is the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system you are using in your practice the Certified version? Physicians who have invested in EHR systems already are now realizing the impact of this question.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“As Massachusetts formulates its health information exchange goals, priorities, and business models, we’ve been curious about plans in other states. We’ve reviewed case studies, blogs, and academic papers.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“Astonishingly it was actually posted on Sunday 20 Feb, 2011 and the document suggests it was finalised late on that evening!
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“‘Severity’ is a pretty simple clinical concept, isn’t it?
I thought so too until I first sat down to create a single, re-usable archetype to represent ‘Severity’. I soon discovered that I had significantly underestimated it – the challenge was greater than appeared at first glance.
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Ralf Gordon Jahns, research2guidance
“As one of the last times, the companies from the global mobile eco system met during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 14 to 17, 2011.
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Joseph Kim, Medical Smartphones
“PatientSafe Solutions, a provider of clinical mobility solutions to hospitals, today announced that its PatientTouch™ connected patient care application designed exclusively for the Apple iPod Touch® has completed beta testing and is now widely available to hospital nurses and caregivers.
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Alan Brookstone, American EHR
“Social media in healthcare is big! By that I mean big in terms of its impact on patient behaviour and expectations of their healthcare providers and big in terms of how broad reaching and pervasive the social media phenomenon is.
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PRNewswire
“A new report, “Privacy and Security in Health Care: A Fresh Look,” released today by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, identifies the risks associated with privacy and security breaches in health care.
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Deloitte
“Privacy and security is a significant challenge for every health care organization and a concern for every U.S. citizen. The move toward an entirely automated health care system featuring electronic and personal health records, clinical data warehousing, and increased transparency means more data is at risk and suggests an urgent review of industry privacy and security safeguards.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Health IT is very much in a transition phase right now. The “meaningful use” incentive program for electronic health records is underway, though in its early phases. National health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal is departing government service in April, even as federal officials work to develop regulations for Stage 2 and Stage 3 of meaningful use.
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Don Fluckinger, Health IT Pulse
“Although the Mayo Clinic is definitely on the cutting edge of social media in health care, it took a British rock band to push the hospital from considering it to doing it, said Lee Aase, manager of syndication and social media, in a “View from the Top” address here at HIMSS 2011.
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Express Computer
“Research has indicated that the worldwide Cloud services revenue is projected to touch $148.8 billion by 2014. A report released by KPMG titled, ‘The Cloud- Changing the Business Ecosystem,’ provides a comprehensive coverage of the Cloud, its impact on the industry and its role in the transformation of business ecosystems.
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Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“Kids downloading apps to their smartphones in 2011 will grow up to expect to have access to online prescription refills, mobile Web portals, and health-monitoring applications.
What does that mean for your practice? Get used to serving tomorrow’s patients today by getting cozy with mobile technology.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“When Sentara Healthcare CIO Bert Reese visits an outside hospital that has implemented electronic medical records, he always hears the same boast: “We are a data-rich organization.” And he always has the same question: Yes, but what are you doing with the data?”
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John Farrell, The Mobility Blog
“The United Arab Emirates is set to deploy a range of mHealth services for the first time in its history, thanks to a newly inked Memorandum of Understanding between Middle East operator Etisalat and Ericsson. The UAE’s adoption of the Ericsson Mobile Health solution promises to enable medical professionals in that part of the world to remotely monitor the health of adult and pediatric patients using mobile technology.
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“So now in addition to worrying about your job and the value of your house you have to “take charge” of your own health and can’t necessarily rely on a health care professional who has to see as many patients as possible to make ends meet. This is being an empowered patient?
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Kathryn Foxhall, Government Health IT
“The Institute of Medicine is exploring the role of electronic medical records, health insurance information and other data systems, perhaps even grocery store data, to gauge the activities and habits in communities in order to focus efforts to keep people healthier instead of waiting until they are sick.
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Shapiro JS et al, American Journal of Public Health, 2011
Public health relies on data reported by health care partners, and information technology makes such reporting easier than ever. However, data are often structured according to a variety of different terminologies and formats, making data interfaces complex and costly. As one strategy to address these challenges, health information organizations (HIOs) have been established to allow secure, integrated sharing of clinical information among numerous stakeholders, including clinical partners and public health, through health information exchange (HIE).
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