Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“While the vast majority of CIOs expect that their organizations will achieve Meaningful Use (MU) within Stage 1 of the program, nearly 90% said they still had concerns about meeting the requirements and, of those, 28% cited capturing and submitting data for quality measures as their largest concern, according to a recent survey by CHIME.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Many leading electronic health record vendors claim their ambulatory-care and hospital systems are integrated, but most are actually interfaced “under the covers,” health IT consultant Vince Ciotti (pictured), a principal of H.I.S. Professionals, LLC, based in Santa Fe, N.M., tells FierceHealthIT in an interview. This applies to almost every vendor that developed either a hospital EHR or an ambulatory-care EHR and then acquired an EHR in the other sphere.
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Jolie O'Dell, USA Today
“We’ve seen consumer gadgets being used by medical practitioners already, but an iPad app called Drchrono is taking medicine to a new level of paper-free convenience.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’m interested to hear how others use social media to consume healthcare IT and EMR information. As most of you probably know, I’m a pretty avid user of social media. For me, it’s a combination of marketing my websites, getting new content and information for my websites, connecting with smart people, and just keeping a finger on the pulse of what’s happening in healthcare IT and EMR.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new whitepaper has demonstrated that the use of interoperable digital identities, digital signatures and cloud computing helps accelerate the initiation of a clinical trial while lowering costs.
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Kamel Boulos MN et al, Biomedical Engineering Online, 10(1)
The latest generation of smartphones are increasingly viewed as handheld computers rather than as phones, due to their powerful on-board computing capability, capacious memories, large screens and open operating systems that encourage application development. This paper provides a brief state-of-the-art overview of health and healthcare smartphone apps (applications) on the market today, including emerging trends and market uptake. Platforms available today include Android, Apple iOS, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows (Windows Mobile 6.x and the emerging Windows Phone 7 platform). The paper covers apps targeting both laypersons/patients and healthcare professionals in various scenarios, e.g., health, fitness and lifestyle education and management apps; ambient assisted living apps; continuing professional education tools; and apps for public health surveillance.
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Howard Larkin, H&HN Magazine
“Got kidney stones? There’s an app for that—and for just about every other clinical and administrative function. As mobile applications reshape health care, hospitals will be pressed to keep up.
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John W. Loonsk, Government Health IT
“As part of its response to the PCAST report, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) charged a review committee to analyze the PCAST recommendations.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to take an incremental approach to testing components of a new health information exchange architecture envisioned by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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John Commins, HealthLeaders Media
“Healthcare CIOs remain optimistic about getting federal EHR stimulus funding, but a growing number acknowledge that federal reimbursement will come later than they’d originally predicted, a quarterly survey by the College of Health Information Management Executives shows.
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John Farrell, The Mobility Blog
“Consumers are steering clear of personal health records. Although the vendors and others bringing PHRs to market have done a great job preaching to the choir at trade shows and conferences, very few prospective users of the technology have any idea why they should bother with it.
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Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“Most clinicians would agree that evidence-based decision support tools have the potential to improve clinical quality. But patients’ perception of the tools—and the physicians who use them—might be yet another barrier to their adoption. The problem is twofold: Some patients are skeptical of docs who need a computer to help them make a diagnosis. And some physicians don’t want to be seen as being too reliant on technology.
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Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“Alerting healthcare providers about abnormal test results through electronic health records (EHRs) may not always lead to timely follow-up of patients, researchers report in the latest issue of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Last month Aruba Networks, one of the big enterprise wireless networking vendors, added device access control specifically for Apple iOS devices to help hospital IT departments and other CIOs to better manage the growing number of Apple devices finding their way into hospitals and the enterprise.
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Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“This is cool and makes me think of what my mother as a senior has gone through with 2nd opinions and so on. She has literally had to enlist the help of friends to pick up images and take them in hand to various doctor’s offices. Yes that is a pain and having HealthVault at a storage point is great.
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Jeff Kagan, E-Commerce Times
“Suddenly, mHealth is very visible in the wireless industry. At the CTIA show a few weeks ago in Orlando, there were many companies up and down the aisles from every corner of the industry. They were trying to capture the attention of the attendees, who were mesmerized by all the bright lights and cool things to see. Mixed in with all this craziness, the newly planted seeds of the wireless health space were starting to take root.
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settelsm, Klavier.nl
“We horen veel over het landelijk EPD. Zeker nu de wet voor de verplichte aansluiting op het Landelijk SchakelPunt? (LSP), ook wel het Landelijk EPD, niet is aangenomen. Men lijkt eindelijk bevrijd te zijn voor wat als van boven opgelegd leek.
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URMC Newsroom
“Health-e-Access has hit a huge milestone – 10,000 telemedicine visits with health care providers since the program began in May 2001 with pediatricians at the Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center. The 10,000th visit occurred recently at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Charter School in Rochester.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Physicians getting ready to attest for meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) in order to earn Medicare bonus payments, take note. Depending on where you practice, you may not be able to claim exemptions from some of the required measures.
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Olga Deshchenko, DOTmed News
“A third of hospital chief information officers expect to qualify for financial incentives tied to successfully demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records, but optimism about doing so early in the program is declining, a new survey finds.
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