Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Just one year after Apple launched its first iPad tablet computer, 27% of primary care and specialty physicians own an iPad or similar device — a rate five times higher than the general population, according to a report by market research firm Knowledge Networks.
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Henry Neondo, ASNS News
“A public-private initiative in the United Republic of Tanzania has announced the nationwide roll-out of a unique malaria treatment access initiative. The roll-out of “SMS for Life”, across the country follows a successful pilot project where mobile and electronic mapping technology was used to track the stock levels of anti-malarial drugs at health facilities to manage supplies of these essential treatments.
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Antony Savvas, Computerworld UK
“University of Aberdeen researchers are collaborating with the Indian government on the development of trusted mobile technology for rural healthcare.
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MDNews
“By 2020, the United States will have a shortage of practicing physicians and require an estimated 91,500 physicians to meet the national deficit. Due to recent health care reform, this number will continue to climb as more people in the United States will have health insurance policies and will be able to seek treatment without worrying about inflated costs.
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Jessica Van Sack, Boston Herald
“Despite federal incentives to encourage doctors to computerize their patient records — and penalties that kick in for failing to do so — an astounding number of doctors are questioning the government’s orders.
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Dean Stephens, Search Engine Watch
“You don’t have to look far to know that mobile usage is huge and continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Of the more than 300 million people in the United States, 96 percent have mobile phones. This is staggering to think of when just 15 years ago only 13 percent of the American population had mobile devices, according to CTIA.
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Anna, Adsvantage
“The convenience of utilizing an electronic health record (EHR) impressed many minds. Over the years, EHRs have gained skyrocketing popularity as more health institutions expressed interest in using such software. As such, vendors also invested a great deal of money, time and research to create more convenient and secure EHRs.
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Mike Wiser, The Gazette
“Both the Iowa House and Senate moved legislation last week that has the state taking a greater role in taking care of the mentally ill.
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Gary Oftedahl, KevinMD
“I think I may have a problem, but it’s not clear exactly what it is, or if it even truly is a concern.
I’m not a “techie” so to speak. I have trouble figuring out how to enter the code for my garage door opener without making some fundamental mistake, due to a deficit embedded in my cerebral cortex at some level.
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T.P. Caruso & Associates
“Think about it. I walk into a doctors office and instead of giving my name, I give them a way to access all my medical information that does not release my identity. The doctor, who has read the medical information, meets with me and I respond to his questions. The doctor uses this information to develop a diagnosis and a care plan.
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Richard Barager, KevinMD
“See me, feel me.”
Yes, that’s right, the title of a song played at Woodstock by The Who—at sunrise of the third day, no less—is the title of my post. The song begins with those very words sung in dramatic refrain, followed by four more: Touch Me/Heal Me.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“So, there you have ‘em — the two major terms that compete for attention in our business. The top definition comes from HIMSS and the second, from Wikipedia.
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Robin Lloyd, Scientific American
“In medicine, there’s the patient and there’s the chart. And the chart is paper.
That’s the stereotype. Actually, about 20 to 30 percent of all primary care physicians in the nation now use basic electronic health records, according to David Blumenthal, a Harvard Medical School professor who was the national coordinator for health information technology in the Obama Administration until a week ago.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“As in most sectors, innovation in healthcare IT (HIT) is by and large incremental. A tweak here and added feature there to some existing application, e.g., what we are seeing today from EHR vendors as they strive to meet meaningful use criteria.
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T.P. Caruso & Associates
“We come to each problem that faces us with a detailed history. We see solutions based on that history. Every effort we make is a modification of the work we have done somewhere else. For healthcare IT, the problem has been recently how to consider the recommendations of the President’s Council of Scientific Advisors (PCAST) Health IT Report. These recommendations were accepted by the President’s closest counsel, giving ONC the charge to decide the next steps for designing a “universal exchange language” (UEL) and a “data element access service” (DEAS).
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“Just the other day, I went on sort of a rant complaining about the excessive hype around iPad use in healthcare. I wasn’t suggesting that using iPads is a bad idea, but I was venting about the hyperbole around Apple’s latest darling.
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Merle Spriggs and Craig Fry, The Sydney Morning Herald
“A significant change is about to occur in the Australian health system that promises to revolutionise the patient-provider relationship. By July 2012, you will be able to sign up for your own personally controlled electronic health record.
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Vanessa Young, Pulse
“We already try very hard as a practice to get feedback from patients in a number of ways. For instance, we have an active patient participation group, a facebook page where we ask for feedback and we do regular paper surveys of patient opinon as well.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“CHIME’s third quarterly meaningful use readiness survey revealed that although nine out of 10 CIOs are confident their facilities will qualify for meaningful use at some point, only 7 percent said they would make the MU grade early.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“Early hopes among health-care IT executives of quickly qualifying for federal electronic health record incentives are evaporating as the realities of implementing complex e-record programs sink in, according to the latest survey by the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME).
The proportion of chief information officers predicting that their EHRs would qualify for incentive cash in the first six months of the program, or by April 1, tumbled over three consecutive quarterly surveys, from 28 percent last August to 15 percent in November and 7.5 percent in the latest survey, conducted in March.”
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John Pulley, NextGov, 15 April 2011
