Articles
John Farrell, Government Health IT
“Coming on the heels of news that the patient monitoring system market will reach $9.3 billion in 2014, IBM has announced it’s expanding its Health Analytics Solution Center in Dallas. Company officials say teams there are working to help physicians connect smart phones, tablets and other devices to electronic medical records, while also helping healthcare providers build new solutions for remote patient monitoring.
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29 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: mHealth, Telemonitoring, Watson
Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) and Electronic Health Records (EHR) are at the heart of health care transformation. Everything we want to change and improve upon, hinges on the availability of EHRs in every hospital and every physician practice. We all know that EHRs can improve quality of care by providing evidence-based, patient-centered clinical decision support at the point of care, while measuring outcomes and customer satisfaction, so we can monitor and reward providers for their efforts.
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28 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Costs, Health Information Technology
Ankur Gupta, iMedicalApps
“A study published last week by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that patients in the ICU of UMass Memorial Medical Center had significantly reduced mortality rate (8.6% as compared to 10.7%) when they were monitored by a remote “eICU.”
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28 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: eICU, Hospitals, Tele-ICU, Telemedicine
DrBicuspid
“An electronic health record (EHR) system helped reduce prescription errors of physicians in a New York City clinic, but doctors found transitioning to the electronic records difficult, according to a study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (April 16, 2011).
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28 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: e-prescribing, Medication Errors
Chris Hall, Marketing: Health
“It was reported last month that Apple may have changed its Leaderboard algorithm to increase the weight of an app’s use in its overall ranking system. Before this news hit the Internet, it was widely understood that Apple’s Leaderboards were primarily based on raw downloads.
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28 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, Meaningful Use, mHealth
Dick Vinegar, Guardian Professional
“Three months ago, I was moaning that the upload speeds of “superfast” broadband quoted by BT and Virgin would still not be fast enough or cheap enough for a doctor to have a video consultation with a patient. Last week, I found out, in the unlikely setting of a committee room in the House of Commons, that I may have been unduly pessimistic.
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28 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Broadband, Teleconsultation, Telemedicine
Enrique Mezquita, Diario Médico
“Las consultas se llenan diariamente de pacientes que antes de acudir han buscado información en internet y, según las perspectivas, este fenómeno seguirá creciendo. “Los profesionales no solamente deben aprender a convivir con esta situación, sino además a sacarle el máximo provecho”
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28 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Health Information, information-on-prescription, Internet
Johannes Caspar, Stiftung Gesundheit Blog
“Soziale Netzwerke boomen. Auch einige Ärzte und Vertreter anderer Heilberufe sind dort aktiv. Doch lauern dabei erhebliche und oft kaum erkennbare Gefahren für den Datenschutz. Insbesondere Facebook sammelt über sein „Freunde-Finder-Verfahren“ gewaltige Datenmengen und berechnet daraus Beziehungsgeflechte.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Germany | Tags: facebook, Privacy
Josh Gliddon, eHealthspace
“The chair of next week’s Rural and Remote Telehealth Conference has called on the federal government to create a national telehealth strategy in order to foster the wide adoption of the technologies.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | Tags: Standards, Telemedicine
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“The Greater Toronto Area covers over 5.5 million people so this is a really major undertaking being envisaged here.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Health Information Exchange
Healthcare IT News Staff
“Data mining and electronic health records helped researchers at some of the country’s most prestigious universities discover a dangerous side effect of a common drug combination.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adverse Drug Reactions, Data Mining, Drugs, Research
Healthcare IT News
“A new poll from CDW, a provider of technology products and services to business, government, education and healthcare, shows a promising forecast for cloud computing adoption by the healthcare industry.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Cloud
Kevin Pho, KevinMD
“According to one of the the guidelines set forth by the AMA about professionalism in social media, “When physicians see content posted by colleagues that appears unprofessional they have a responsibility to bring that content to the attention of the individual, so that he or she can remove it and/or take other appropriate actions.”
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Physicians, Social Media, Twitter
Ano Lobb, EHR Bloggers
“But a new study published in the prestigious Journal of Political Economy takes on the potential role that EHRs could play in reducing infant mortality. Each year in the US, 18,000 babies die within 28 days of birth, an average national death rate of 4.58 per 1,000 live births (or 458 per 100,000). That neonatal mortality rate helps the US rank 43rd in the world for infant mortality, on par with Montenegro, Slovakia and the United Arab Emirates.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Babies
Miller AR, Tucker CE. The Journal of Political Economy, 119(2)
Electronic medical records (EMRs) facilitate fast and accurate access to patient records, which could improve diagnosis and patient monitoring. Using a 12-year county-level panel, we find that a 10 percent increase in births that occur in hospitals with EMRs reduces neonatal mortality by 16 deaths per 100,000 live births. This is driven by a reduction of deaths from conditions requiring careful monitoring.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Babies, emr, Health Information Technology
Neil Versel, EMR and HIPAA
“Crounse cited a new CDW poll showing that 30 percent of healthcare organizations could be considered “cloud adopters,” and for good reason. “The flexibility, scalability and lower costs associated with moving certain line of business applications to the cloud are compelling, especially for an industry like healthcare. After all, the primary focus of hospitals and clinics is caring for patients, not running an IT empire. There’s not a CIO, CFO, CEO, COO, CNO, CMIO, or CMO who wouldn’t love to shift some of their IT spending to delivering better care to the communities they serve,” Crounse wrote.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Cloud, Trust
Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“Stampede? OK, that would be a bit of an exaggeration. But even I found a new poll conducted by CDW to be surprising and quite encouraging. As I travel about the USA and the world talking with health industry customers, I find there’s a genuine interest in cloud computing. The flexibility, scalability and lower costs associated with moving certain line of business applications to the cloud are compelling, especially for an industry like healthcare.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Cloud, Health Information Technology
Houston Neal, Software Advice
“Apple’s iPad is making rounds in healthcare. Its ergonomic design, long battery life, and beautiful user interface (UI) gives other tablets a run for their money. Several reports indicate that the iPad is growing in popularity among physicians. As a result, more and more electronic medical record (EMR) vendors are releasing iPad-specific versions of their EMRs.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: tablet PC
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The week after at the WLSA Convergence Summit in San Diego McCray predicted during his opening remarks that all medical devices would have connectivity in the next five to ten years.
Whether it’s an in-hospital infusion pump, point-of-care handheld ultrasound, blood glucose meter, or fitness company’s heart rate monitor: It is becoming the norm for health-related devices to embed some form of connectivity whether cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth or other.
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Connectivity, Devices, IVF, mHealth
Technology for Doctors Online
“Work is under way to ensure that healthcare providers can share electronic health information for Greater Toronto Area (GTA) residents, who represent 47 percent of the province’s population. The ConnectingGTA project will allow 700 service providers to securely share patient health information across the five GTA Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs).
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27 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Information Sharing, Interoperability, Provider
