SusieCookRN
“A study conducted by the Mayo Clinic and the University of California, San Diego shows the benefit of telemedicine in stroke diagnosis. Six rural hospitals were connected to specialists at the two primary stroke centers using a video feed from a mobile robotic telemedicine camera system that was positioned near the patients’ beds.
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Ana Luísa Neves, Tiago Villanueva, CMAJ
“French doctors will be entitled to bill the government for some medical services provided over the phone at the same rate that they invoice for services provided in their offices or hospitals, under new French legislation aimed at promoting the use of telemedicine and redressing regional inequities in the availability of medical services.
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Jacqueline O'Doherty, Hospital Impact
“With the advent of EMRs and the government’s stimulus benefits, doctors are slowly but surely incorporating them into their practices. The government has increased the benefit this year to encourage more physicians to jump on the bandwagon. Currently only 30 percent of primary-care physicians and 20 percent of hospitals have installed some form of electronic medical records.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Mobile health companies dominated Fast Company’s list of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health Care for 2011. At least five of the top 10 companies have strong mobile components.
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Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“Montana is known for many things–its Big Sky beauty, its national parks, and its rough and tumble history. But this month it is standing out over what has become a battleground over the funding of electronic health records (EHRs).
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“EMRs help improve the quality of care in developing countries, according to a new study out by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.
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n4a
“People of all ages are using the internet, cell phones and other technologies to communicate with family and friends in new and exciting ways. In a matter of seconds you can send a message to your son, receive a photo from your granddaughter or email an invitation to a family gathering.
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Sahiel Shah, Penn-Olson
“In a bid to create awareness and educate people on health related topics, Agarwal’s Eye Hospital has created presence on Facebook, Twitter & Youtube. Their plans are interesting. The hospital will disseminate information on eye care, common ailments, innovative treatments and research.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“Articles are appearing about the necessity of EHRs in disaster situations like Japan. And of course, they are right when mentioning the fact that having digital records might immensely help chronically diseased and elderly being able to continue their proper care.
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Arjun Maini, Medical Records
“The destruction caused by the earthquake and tsunami has lately dominated the headlines. The damage in Japan seen in the news barely scratches the surface, as many long term issues remain hidden beneath the imagery of physical damage throughout the affected areas. We are well aware of the shortage in medical care, with hospitals and clinics being destroyed, scarce resources to treat those desperate for care.
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Tyler Thia, ZDNet Asia
“The wide-scale destruction caused by the recent north Japan earthquake and tsunami has highlighted the importance of electronic health records (EHR), with industry watchers urging for countries to digitize healthcare data.
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John, EMR and EHR
“At least that’s the case that was made in this blog post on the Software Advice website. The post is a few months old which is centuries in the tech world, but I have to disagree with them on their take that EMR vendors are slow to move their products to the iPad platform.
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Iltifat Husain, iMedicalApps
“In February, we did a feature review on the first interactive medical textbook for the iPad, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology. The Physiology textbook was brought to life via the Inkling Platform, an app you can download on the iPad. The Inkling Platform is no ordinary textbook app — unlike other similar e-book apps, the developers do not copy and paste the content at verbatim into digital form.
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Felasfa Wodajo, iMedicalApps
“We have reported in the past on AirStrip, a smartphone and iPad app that allows a mobile doctor to monitor the vital signs of patients in an obstetric ward or an ICU. The reverse, where a fixed doctor monitors multiple remote patients is now entering the mainstream and already making a difference in many patients’ lives.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Americans may not be embracing social media as a way to communicate with their providers, but they aren’t opposed to using the Internet for more administrative functions such as billing, accessing their records and setting appointments.
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O’Malley AS. N Engl J Med, 364(12)
Health information technology (HIT) holds promise for facilitating vast improvements in care and, ultimately, in the health of Americans, but achieving that potential remains a daunting task. A recent article in the Los Angeles Times described the new phenomenon of hiring computer-savvy undergraduate “scribes” to take notes for physicians during patient encounters and enter the information into electronic health records (EHRs) — a practice that suggests how far we must go to develop EHRs that clinicians will embrace.
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Tivyside Advertiser
“Cancer patients are among those benefiting from the use of telemedicine in Hywel Dda Health Board.
Head and neck cancer patients at Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth, and Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest, are using videoconferencing to receive pre and post laryngectomy treatment with specialist speech and language therapists based in Swansea.
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Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“The Privacy and Security Tiger Team is scrambling to finish its recommendations for stage two requirements for the HITECH Act’s electronic health record incentive program. It’s considering issues ranging from authenticating the identity of patients using portals to requiring incentive program participants to use certain security functions, such as encryption.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Patients at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust are being given access to their own online medical records.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“While there are still to be any evaluations of this type of system that provide proper evidence that such systems make a difference it seems possible that a simple, clearly thought out model such as this gets as close as possible to be likely to be useful.
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