Health Intersections
“There’s two major problems with this, and they’re related. The first is that any significant healthcare software is configurable and customisable. Some software packages are so configurable that they’re actually sold as source code, not a compiled product, and the implementor hires programmers to make the software work for them.
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Adie, Healthcare IT Weblog
“This is a project I have been working on – in collaboartion with other parties in the Bay Area. The way of the future.
San Francisco is on the cusp of launching a groundbreaking new health care initiative that will transform medical care in our city for the better.
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Healthcare IT News
“The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) announced its plans to support the healthcare industry in 2011 and beyond with initiatives aimed at maintaining the comprehensiveness and relevance of the Common Security Framework (CSF) and CSF Assurance program.
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Dinesh Chandra Gaur, TopNews New Zealand
“Technology has brought a revolution in the health care sector of South Africa. Battling the health care crisis, a unique business model, telemedicine, has been approved by the government to address the percolating issues of long waiting hours and huge consultation fees in South Africa.
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Jeff Rowe, Government Health IT
“A committee charged with analyzing last year’s report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has issued some preliminary steps for policymakers to factor into Meaningful Use discussions.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“The Resource and Patient Management System, the electronic health-record system developed by the Indian Health Service, announced it has been certified as capable of meeting HHS’ criteria through which providers can meet meaningful-use targets and receive federal financial incentives for health IT adoption.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Clinicians say they receive far too many alerts from electronic health record (EHR) systems. In addition to test-result alerts, they get many unnecessary notifications that complicate the task of reviewing the more urgent alerts.
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Cardiologytoday
“Disparities in access to technology have inhibited adoption of Internet-based medical information, particularly among minority populations, according to recent findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“On April 18 an FDA rule governing the use of medical device data systems went into effect, implementing guidelines for IT companies that develop medical devices for health care providers.
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SusieCookRN
“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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PRNewswire
“American Well™ today unveiled Online Care For Providers, a new offering in its Online Care Suite that enables physician practices nationwide to offer live, on-demand consultations to patients in their homes or workplaces, using the Web or phone.
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Charlie Jarvis, NHINWatch
“Our healthcare delivery system is in need of major change. Physicians deliver sickness care instead of focusing on wellness. Disparate medical records exist, but they are not readily shared among providers and – much like the American road system before interstate highways – patients hope to get to the point of health but are not always sure how and when they are going to get there.
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Fred Trotter
“Generally, the red circles correspond to the percentage of child allergy suffers who had -seen- a doctor, but had no specific plan to address their condition. The red tags, are healthcare providers from the NPI database that are listed as experts in kids allergies… the top of the field for asthma treatment.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Business and technology columnist Sydney Hill had an interesting column about relaxing his efforts to keep his personal information private and his overall view of privacy in a digital environment.
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Shanthini Naidoo, Times Live
“It is a fact. Healthcare in South Africa implies, for some, long queues at state hospitals and clinics, and for others exorbitant private doctors’ fees. Also a fact, our health practitioners are overworked.
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Paul Icamina, Malaya
“Medical care through cellphones, emails and computers is coming to 2.3 million households in at least 1,000 of the country’s poorest towns as well as cities that have high infant and maternal deaths.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I hope that by now, readers have heeded the advice I gave in a previous post, “No Matter What Else You Do in 2011, You’ve Got to ePrescribe” and are covering their bases regarding ePrescribing under MIPPA.
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Iltifat Husain, iMedicalApps
“We featured DrChrono, the first native iPad electronic health record, almost a year ago on iMedicalApps. Since then, they have made huge changes, not only with their software, but their overall business plan. When they initially launched on the iPad, they didn’t offer a free version of their EHR, had a quirky user interface, and were betting big that physicians would embrace the iPad.
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Douglas Elwood, KevinMD
“Two articles recently highlighted two very different areas of medicine that are quickly colliding and pointing to a new direction for health delivery.
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Ralf Gordon Jahns, research2guidance
“Before the smartphone app market brought new life to the mHealth market mHealth service providers struggled to scale their solutions. Most of them never made it out of the trial stage. Some of them were just too basic, such as simple pill reminders running on SMS as the primary delivery technology.
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