SA Mathieson, Guardian Professional
“The Department of Health is restarting its summary care record (SCR) programme, with the plan to establish a market of services allowing patients to access their data.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“Meaningful use is complex enough without having to sort fact from fiction when it comes to the rules, regulations, and requirements. It irks me when I hear the misinformation being disseminated by some EHR vendors in their attempts to sell their products to physicians who are not fully steeped in the nuances of the program.
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Healthcare IT News
“Three major health organizations, the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, have collaborated to create a quality improvement program aimed at improving outpatient care nationwide. Working with electronic health records providers from around the country, the program will provide doctors with the ability to easily gather, access and report on important data that can ultimately lead to improved care and outcomes for patients.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“It takes collaboration and ease of use—not monolithic systems—to build effective mobile health, according to Andrew Barbash, MD, medical director of neuroscience and virtual care services at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Next week longtime Google CEO Eric Schmidt will hand over control to one of the company’s founders, Larry Page — a substantial restructuring that surely indicates other changes are likely for Googlers and their many projects. A report in the Wall Street Journal this week specifically calls out the company’s personal health records (PHR) offering Google Health:
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“I wandered along to the Commonwealth Health Department Site earlier today and was greeted with a blizzard of press releases on the Wave 2 projects.
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David Hastoglis, Healthcare IT Solutions
“I recently read an article titled, “Protect Patient Data from an Inside Job” by Phil Neray of Health Management Technology, which stated, as many news organizations have, that in 2010 healthcare organizations were a top target of data breaches. All totaled, 214 healthcare organizations were breached in 2010 with a total of 6.3 million patients impacted by those security breaches.
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“L’Agence des systèmes d’information partagés de santé (Asip santé) et la Fédération des Industries Électriques, Electroniques et de Communication (FIEEC) publient une étude européenne, et demandent un pilotage national pour la télémédecine et la télésanté.L’étude publiée le 29 mars analyse 10 projets européens de télésanté et de télémédecine, en Allemagne, au Royaume-Uni, aux Pays-Bas, au Danemark et en Belgique.
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Europe's Information Society
“This second eHealth action plan (eHAP) provides an opportunity to consolidate the actions which have been addressed to date, take them a step further where possible and provide a longer term vision for eHealth in Europe, in the context the EU 2020 Strategy, the Digital Agenda for Europe as well as Innovation Union and its associated European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“The Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) data standard, which is based on the extensible markup language, or XML, is used in many electronic health record (EHR) systems. Health Level 7 International has developed a lightweight version known as the HL7 Green CDA standard.
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Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“Physicians implementing electronic health records should consider cloud computing as a way to improve security, says healthcare IT consultant Patricia Dodgen.
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ePractice Europe
“Of the 168 patients treated by emergency teleconsultation at Cilaos hospital in 2010, a remote area on Réunion Island, only one required the dispatch of a mobile intensive care unit (service mobile d’urgence et réanimation – SMUR, in French). This confirms the efficiency of telemedicine, according to the regional hospital’s annual report on telemedicine activity.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“You know, when you think about an EMR purchase, it’s obvious that there’s plenty of technical considerations involved. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, most doctors will never need to know anything about APIs or coding or middleware before they pick out a system. They just want the EMR to work.
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EMR Daily News
“In his keynote address to the Institute for Health Technology Transformation’s Health IT Summit in San Francisco on March 22, industry luminary Paul Tang, MD, MS, outlined for attendees a path from Stage One to Stage Two requirements for providers and hospitals to make meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) under still-developing federal policy.
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Corepoint Health
“Meaningful Use, no doubt, has been a driving force in EHR adoption. Never before has the government supported such a transformation in the healthcare industry. This is really a big deal.
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John Moore, The Health Care Blog
“Yesterday, Chilmark Research participated in the CRG conference, Driving Change Through Managed Care IT from Provider Payments to Quality, which was held in New York City. Despite having a title that no one will be able to remember, the overall theme of the event and presentations therein gave one a bird’s eye view into what payers are thinking as we march forward with healthcare reform and the digitization of the healthcare sector.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Wireless patient monitoring devices tied to a home-based connectivity hub are supposed to improve the quality of life and to prevent hospital readmissions for the elderly, people with chronic diseases and post-operative patients. But they have one serious flaw.
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Pediatric SuperSite
“Sending text message reminders to parents of urban children appeared to be effective at increasing vaccine delivery in this at-risk population, according to study results presented this week during the 45th Annual National Immunization Conference.
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LifeZoneHealth
“People’s Insurance Firm of China is healthy claimed to introduce initial health mobile phones of China formally yesterday.
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Jenny Laurello, HealthITExchange
“I recently reached out to Dr. David Kibbe, senior advisor to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and driving force behind their Center for Health IT, to hear his perspective on the future of both Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault’s personal health records (PHR) systems. Specifically, I was interested in hearing Dr. Kibbe’s perspective in regards to the the prolific Continuity of Care Record (CCR) vs. Continuity of Care Document (CCD) standards debate, which has sparked a lot of conversation in the health care industry about the future of both platforms.
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