Sandrine Cabut, Le Figaro
“Des sociétés se développent pour proposer des conseils médicaux en ligne ou par téléphone. Elles visent d’autres prestations: suivi de maladies chroniques et même consultations à distance.
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Lynne Zucker, Infoway Connects
e”Those of you that follow eHealth are aware that in the United States, through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, there are incentive payments available to eligible health care providers when they demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health records. The meaningful use criteria are designed to evolve over time and also form the basis for a new vendor certification program.
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Dissent, PHIprivacy.net
“Patients who participate in clinical trials expect that their personal information will remain confidential, but a recent study led by Dr. Khaled El-Emam, Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, found that the security practices used to transfer and share sensitive files were inadequate.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“In an effort to help the U.S. maintain its position as the world leader in medical device innovation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed the Innovation Pathway, a priority review program for new, breakthrough medical devices.
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Nancy Crotti, Star Tribune
“Paper medical charts have largely gone the way of nurses’ whites, and so have some jobs that old-fashioned health records used to require.
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HealthTech Wire
“In his role as Executive Vice President for Global Services at HIMSS, Jeremy Bonfini has a helicopter view on eHealth and health IT, not just across Europe but throughout the rest of the world.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Poor or lack of communication among providers for patients who require post-hospital care has often led to medical errors, according to a study published in 2009 and led by Martin Chieng Were, MD, a Regenstrief Institute investigator and assistant professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
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Rebecca Wanjiku, Computerworld
“Lack of existing health-care systems and underdeveloped privacy laws are likely to push faster adoption of mobile health business models in Africa compared to developed countries.
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Steve Downs, Pioneering Ideas
“After several much-ballyhooed analyses projected an impending boom in the mobile health industry, it seems this once-geeky topic is being talked about everywhere lately. For those of us whom have been long-time advocates (and supporters) of the disruptive potential of mHealth technologies, we are thankful that this conversation is taking place.
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James Bowden, HDM Breaking News
Since I became director of patient financial services at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, N.J., in 2008, I’ve been on a mission to round up and digitize every paper document related to patient care before we begin our EHR installation in 2011. By the time Palisades goes live with Siemens’ Soarian system, all of our patient billing information will be under the control of a document imaging and management system.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“It is hard to understand just why a system from the UK would be selected for the ADF.
While I have no problem with EMIS being selected but the fact does rather beg the question about what is going on locally that this gap cannot be filled by an Australian developed system.
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eHealthNews.eu
“iSOFT Group Limited (ASX:ISF) has increased its foothold in Scandinavia and Finland, after an agreement with partners Picis to sell, implement and support its perioperative, anaesthesia and critical care solutions across the region.
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Chretien KC et al, JAMA, 305(6)
To the Editor: The existence of social media is transforming the way physicians communicate with the public, bringing both challenges and opportunities for medical professionalism. Indeed, the American Medical Association recently issued a policy statement on professionalism in the use of social media. Medical schools are adopting social media policies.
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Thomas McMennamin, EHR Bloggers
“The American public wants electronic medical records. A recent study by the University of Chicago reveals that Americans overwhelmingly support adoption of EHRs by providers. In a time where there often seem to be discrepancies between what the public wants and what the government does, it is exciting to see such strong alignment.
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Elizabeth Lee Vliet, Healthcare IT News
“Egypt’s crisis has raised alarms about national security and economic impact for Americans if regime change leads to an anti-US government controlling a strong ally in the Middle East. This crisis raises another more personal concern for Americans that has been overlooked by the national media: The security and availability of your electronic medical records in the event of a government-imposed “kill switch” for the Internet.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Many of those testifying at a hearing about a presidential council’s call for a universal exchange language Tuesday urged a go-slow, deliberative approach to the effort to improve the interoperability of electronic health records while maintaining privacy.
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Jeff Byers, CMIO
“Results from a clinical trial have produced the first positive, randomized findings for an implantable hemodynamic monitoring device in patients with moderately symptomatic heart failure where the addition of information about pulmonary artery pressure to clinical signs and symptoms allowed for improved heart failure management and led to a reduction in heart failure (HF)-related hospitalizations, according to the CHAMPION study published online Feb. 10 in the Lancet.
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Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“CDW Healthcare has the results of another survey they conducted and this time it was about consumer trust and the use of electronic medical records. Back in December of 2010 they had another survey that asked about the use of electronic medical records by physicians. What is interesting too is that about the same percentage of physicians are not using virus protection or firewalls.
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“Senator Edgardo J. Angara, chairman of the S&T committee in the Senate, has expressed his support for the Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement and Local Services (RN HEALS) program, which he said can aid telehealth development in rural areas.
The nurse program is set to launch next week and deploy 243 nurses to 28 municipalities in Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“The study “Medication Adherence and mHealth” by George Washington University proved that using mobile technology can be a helpful tool for patients who often struggle to keep track of their medication schedules. A conference at GWU on Feb. 9 reviewed the survey’s results, which showed high acceptance and sustained use of the Vocel Pill Phone app.
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