Health Train Express
“This afternoon I was at my local Drugstore in line waiting for my prescription medication. I regularly scan the shelves to see how technology is impacting the retail pharmacy business. There are the usual blood pressure monitors, glucometers, pregnancy tests, STD tests, HIV tests, etc.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“A study supported by Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center and Boise State University in Idaho addresses the need for remote presence general surgery to help build surgery capacity in rural communities. For example, in Idaho, there are at least six critical access hospitals (CAH) with one or totally without a general surgeon in their operating room.
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Helen Phung, EHR Bloggers
“Is the sharing of anonymous, de-identified health information is much different? Identifiable patient data is exquisitely sensitive and is protected as such.
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Shea Steinberg, EHR Bloggers
“Their mission is to empower patients by providing tools needed to maintain an active lifestyle with real-time health information, on the go, literally. Just like Practice Fusion’s EMR, Ford SYNC has the ability to connect to cloud-based internet services, Bluetooth and control smartphone apps, all powered through the vehicle’s display monitor.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“As you may know, not long ago I wrote up a rant slamming awkward-to-use EHR interfaces, an article which has drawn plenty of reader debate and discussion.
Today, I learned that the government is paying attention to this issue as well (and not a moment too soon).
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“The hype at the IBM booth at HIMSS was really strong since it had been announced that healthcare was one of the first places that IBM wanted to work on implementing the “Watson” technology (read more about the Watson Technology in Healthcare in this AP article).
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Earlier this month at a New England health IT conference, former U.S. health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal said that he is reasonably confident the HITECH Act’s push for EHR adoption would be successful, and we’d see that happen. The part about nationwide health information exchange (HIE) happening? Confident, yes. By 2015? Probably not.
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Onche Odeh, Daily Independent
“Nigerians desirous of high quality medical consultation, especially with renown experts resident abroad now have the opportunity to do so with the as a new telemedicine centre for such interactions has opened in Lagos.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“I was walking past a local Walgreens over the weekend, when the electronic sign in front of the store flashed a message about the drugstore chain’s iPad app. My friend asked me why anyone would need such an app.
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Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek
“The U.S. Comptroller Generation has identified two Department of Defense (DOD) IT programs that signify a duplication of federal IT resources and programs, a problem the Obama administration is trying to clear up as a cost-savings measure.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“The health care IT industry will grow 24 percent from 2012 to 2014 and increase its spending by $40 billion through the end of 2011, according to the report U.S. Healthcare IT Market Analysis by RNCOS, a global research firm based in India.
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Jessica Grogan, MDNews
“Medical professionals must engage in health information exchange (HIE) in order to receive financial incentives for the meaningful use of an electronic health record (EHR). To achieve this, many providers join a RHIO.
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Jaimie Oh, ASCReview
“Based on findings from a recent study, researchers suggest electronic health records and clinical decision support systems may not significantly improve quality in ambulatory care settings, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“As health information exchanges (HIEs) tap data from more sources, personal health records (PHRs) present both compelling potential and a raft of challenges. HIE access to and use of PHR data was a topic of interest at recent a Beacon Community panel discussion, and PHRs could be vehicles for patient accountability in future care delivery models. But we’re not there yet for a variety of reasons.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Best practices for protecting medical devices are sorely lacking. That’s why it’s excellent news that a new consortium is attempting to devise some risk management best practices for keeping medical devices secure.
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Yao L et al, Drug Discovery Today, 2011
Electronic health records (EHRs) have increased in popularity in many countries. Pushed by legal mandates, EHR systems have seen substantial progress recently, including increasing adoption of standards, improved medical vocabularies and enhancements in technical infrastructure for data sharing across healthcare providers. Although the progress is directly beneficial to patient care in a hospital or clinical setting, it can also aid drug discovery.
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Emont S. California HealthCare Foundation, 2011
Patient portals can offer important benefits to patients and provider organizations. These technologies — particularly when integrated with an electronic health record (EHR) — have the potential to improve both quality and access to care through features that enable patients to: communicate electronically and securely with their provider; access their medical records; schedule appointments; pay bills; and refill prescriptions.
This paper examines research documenting the implementation of patient portals and their impact on health care delivery. It is intended to inform the work of health care providers — particularly safety-net organizations — as they plan and implement patient portals and develop measurement strategies for assessing their impact.
Many research initiatives document patient-level measures such as use of patient portals features, user demographics, and overall satisfaction with the portal. A limited number of studies bridge the gap between patient-level measures and long-term outcome measures, including health care quality indicators and operational efficiency.
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e-Health-com News
“Tests haben eine Schwachstelle in den Kartenterminals des laufenden Basis-Rollouts entdeckt. Sie ist umgehend zu beheben, fordern KBV und KZBV. Patientendaten sind nicht betroffen.
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John Moehrke, Healthcare Security/Privacy
“I was asked to present at the 12th International HL7 Interoperability Conference. All of the final presentations and papers are now available on the HL7 Web site.
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Bridget Carey, StarTribune
“Soler is among 40 cardiologists at HCA East Florida Hospitals who are the world’s first physicians to incorporate the EKG-reading app into their practices. Doctors at three HCA hospitals began using it recently on their personal iPads and iPhones.
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