Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The U.S. Supreme Court on a 6-3 vote has struck down as unconstitutional a 2007 Vermont law that prohibited the collection and sale of physicians’ prescription data without consent.
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Healthcare IT News
“A new study from IBM shows that consumers have a growing appetite for health and wellness gadgets – representing a market opportunity for device manufacturers that has “barely been tapped.”
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“The eHealth Initiative has released a new report exploring the role of electronic health records in care coordination for patients with complex illnesses, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
The eHealth Initiative conducted the study with Sanofi-Aventis and Health & Technology Vector (H&TV).
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Blobel B. e-Health Across Borders Without Boundaries, 2011
Nowadays, eHealth and pHealth solutions have to meet advanced interoperability challenges. Enabling pervasive computing and even autonomic computing, pHealth system architectures cover many domains, scientifically managed by specialized disciplines using their specific ontologies.
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Ammenwerth E et al, e-Health Across Borders Without Boundaries, 2011
Patient portals provide patients with access to a provide-managed electronic health record (EHR). They may provide an interesting approach to increase patient empowerment. The objective of this paper is to provide a first overview of the state-of-the-art and the impact of patient portals.
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Mike Martineau, Technology for Doctors Online
“The last decade has seen enormous technological change. At the turn of the century (I still catch myself thinking of 1900, not 2000), Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and smartphones didn’t exist. Today, Facebook has a user base exceeding the population of most countries and smartphones will soon be outselling personal computers.
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Technology for Doctors Online
“Imagine a family doctor examining a strange rash on a patient’s arm. He’s stumped, so he takes a photo, attaches some comments and sends it off electronically to a dermatologist, who sends back a diagnosis within days.
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online
“The healthcare sector is being inundated with news about the array of cool new tablet PCs now available. But some healthcare professionals are warning they’re not necessarily good replacements for laptops or desktops, especially if they’re intended to work with EMR systems.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Last month I wrote about how handheld point of care diagnostic imaging devices will cannibalize existing, less mobile technologies. GE’s Vscan and Mobisante’s MobiUS were the prime examples.
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Tisa Murdock, VMware View
“For caregivers in the healthcare industry, virtual desktop solutions hold the promise of ubiquitous and reliable access to patient care applications and data regardless of device or location… But what about benefits for the patient?
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Joe Lavelle, Healthcare IT Today
“My last post explained how the system in healthcare IT was flawed and how it was important for buyers of healthcare IT systems to understand the limitations of the system in order to achieve the results they expect from the system.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“Usability has become the focus of a great deal of attention in the EHR world. The HIT Policy Committee has talked about making usability a component of meaningful use—recognizing that spending $36 billion to incentivize and support physicians to adopt EHRs means that we can no longer close our eyes to the historically high rate of EHR failures.
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eGovmonitor
“A new service has been launched on sundhed.dk, the official Danish eHealth portal, which provides a summary of a citizen’s visits to such healthcare practitioners as general practitioners (GPs), specialists, dentists and physiotherapists, it was announced on 7 June 2011.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“For those of you that are relatively new to EMR and HIPAA, you might not appreciate this post as much as long time readers of EMR and HIPAA. A few years back, I admit that I was pretty harsh on CCHIT and their EHR certification. I remember one guy stopping me at a conference and after realizing who I was asked, “so what’s your issue with CCHIT?”
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Erica Olenski, HL7 Standards
“I recently had to request my medical records from former physicians and have them sent to a new specialist I’m seeing. It is incredibly important for me that my new physician has a comprehensive perspective of my health. I truly believe that if he doesn’t have a complete picture, his decisions may not consider the context of my condition, and my lifestyle and personal will as a part of the solution.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Findings from a recent survey conducted by Sage Healthcare Insights has found 42 percent of physicians are using EHRs. One in three of them are using one during the patient’s visit.
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Eric Barnes, AuntMinnieEurope.com
“Planning for the era of personalized medicine — a science and an art that combines genetics and patient histories with imaging and population-based atlases — is finally giving way to real treatment of real patients, according to a presentation on the first day of the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting.
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Michael, Mobile Marketing Watch
“Aetna – one of the nation’s most well-known diversified health care benefits companies – has jumped into the mHealth pool with the roll out of their recently announced texting program designed to help members who have been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to publish “very soon” a proposed rule promoting the wider use of existing metadata standards so it can get feedback on the experience from various organizations, said Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national health IT coordinator.
The use of metadata, or elements that describe data, is considered key to fueling more complex health information exchange.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As the drive to integrate health systems and share patient information advances, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has launched MedlinePlus Connect, which links patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems to MedlinePlus.
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