Medical Daily
“Recruiting thousands of patients to collect health data for genetic clues to disease is expensive and time consuming. But that arduous process of collecting data for genetic studies could be faster and cheaper by instead mining patient data that already exists in electronic medical records, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.
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PRWeb
“Smartphone apps have a high rate of dropouts with 26% being used only once and 74% being discontinued by the tenth use. An online survey was conducted by Consumer Health Information Corporation to gauge consumer interest in health apps and evaluate the likelihood of patient adherence to them.
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CMIO
“Extracting patient data that already exists in EMRs could expedite the process of collecting data for genetic studies, according to “Electronic Medical Records for Genetic Research: Results of the eMERGE Consortium,” a study published in Science Translational Medicine.
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Abolaji Adebayo, The Nation
“In an attempt to address some of the challenges facing the nation in healthcare, Intel Corporation, as part of its corporate social responsibility efforts, after a working visit by its Chairman, Mr. Craig R. Barrett in 2007, decided to begin a pilot electronic health (eHealth) programme in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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Georgina Enzer, ITP.net
“Qualcomm Incorporated through its Wireless Reach initiative, along with Mobinil, Click Diagnostics, the Egyptian Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) have launched a pilot program to test the technology framework designed to allow dermatologists to use Mobinil’s 3G mobile network to diagnose skin conditions remotely.
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“By now most people understand the promise of pharmaceuticals being customized to “YOU” based on your individual genetic code. While this isn’t prevalent today, we understand that this will be possible in a few years.
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“Over on his eCare Management blog, Vince Kuraitis (Twitter) is running a little (so far) series on “Rebuttal to PHR Luddites.”
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Cory Franklin, guardian.co.uk
“As an incentive, the Obama administration will provide doctors and hospitals substantial bonuses to adopt electronic medical records as part of a federal multibillion-dollar investment, which includes health information technology regional extension centres (sound Orwellian enough?) where providers can ascertain which health record system best suits them.
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Meaningful HIT News with Neil Versel
“I’ve been wondering, has anyone in mental health truly had success with an EMR? I can’t imagine any psychotherapist sitting at a computer typing notes while there’s a patient on the couch. That would be particularly bad for a patient with self-esteem issues.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“The Indian Health Service wasn’t the first healthcare system to have its have its electronic health-record system certified as capable of meeting meaningful-use criteria under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but it is one of the largest.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Microsoft has announced that its Amalga data-aggregation application will provide the infrastructure for application service provider TeamPraxis’ leading physician data network in Hawaii.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“At a meeting in Washington on Thursday, a work group of the federally chartered Health Information Technology Policy Committee tackled the question of whether and how it’s possible to test the usability of electronic health-record systems—and opinions on the viability of such testing ranged from outright skepticism to absolute confidence.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT intends to conduct a consumer electronic consent pilot as part of advancing health information exchange.
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Art Gross, Entegration
“If you are a medical practice and are in the process of purchasing an EMR for your practice, yesterday’s Amazon outage gives you something to think about. Many EMR vendors give multiple options for deploying the EMR including on-site servers that are in the practice’s office and hosted servers or applications that are at the vendor’s data center or some other hosting facility. A day after Amazon’s outage you have to ask yourself; if Amazon can suffer a complete melt down of their data center what is to stop an EMR vendor from having the same experience?
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Richard A. Marini, San Antonio
“While many industries were going digital over the past decade, the medical community, by and large, held steadfast to dead-tree paperwork.
Now, with a push from $27 billion in incentives in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, that’s beginning to change.
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David Gorn, California Healthline
“According to Mohit Kaushal of the West Wireless Health Institute in San Diego, the promise of wireless technology is multifaceted, encompassing a range of devices, including the ubiquitous cell phone.
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Hal Amens, EHR Bloggers
“My recent post about the Supreme Court’s decision in the case involving over-the-counter Zicam cold remedy got me thinking about over-the-counter (OTC) medication and personal health records (PHRs). PHRs are a logical next step in the evolving application of computer systems to capture, analyze and use healthcare information.
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Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online
“I’m not sure which is increasing at a faster pace — EHR adoption rates or studies about EHR adoption rates. The latest in a string of EHR-related studies, titled Electronic Health Records: Status, Needs, and Lessons 2011, was released a few weeks ago by MGMA (The Medical Group Management Association).
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Healthcare IT News
“The majority of patients and physicians have a positive perception of electronic documentation, according to a survey conducted by Sage Healthcare Division, a unit of Sage North America.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“Personal health records are a method of storing and accessing health information online, and while big-name companies like Google and Microsoft are behind the largest of these data stores, adoption of the services remains stagnant, a new survey and research report found.
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