Farzad Mostashari, Health IT Buzz Blog
“On May 22, a devastating tornado struck Joplin, Mo., killing 134 and devastating a community of some 50,000 people. As one of a series of storms, it made 2011 the deadliest year for tornadoes in the United States in more than half a century.
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Brian Dunham, CMIO
“Body Area Networks (BANs) are increasingly used for a wide variety of applications, from the healthcare technology field, to use by rescue personnel, the military and NASA. In the medical field, BANs can be utilized for physiological health monitoring—such as primary vital signs, heart rate, respiration, as well as internal and external body temperatures—and the future potential of the technology is promising.
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Jeffrey Roman, Healthcare Info Security
“To access a central data repository in the cloud, participants in a Chicago health information exchange now in development will use a virtual private network where all data traffic is encrypted, says Terri Jacobsen, director of the project.
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Peter Orszag, Bloomberg View
“I now have more health information on my wrist than my doctor had about me 10 years ago, and I’m hopeful that it’s going to help keep me healthier.
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Computable
“Het Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) is overgestapt op het elektronische zorginformatiesysteem van Chipsoft (CS-EZIS.Net). Naast uitgebreide dossiervoering, ondersteuning van medicatiegerelateerde handelingen, zorgportaalfuncties en facturatieoplossingen, biedt Chipsoft ook ondersteuning voor specifiek academische doeleinden en trajecten.
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Accenture
“Accenture and MOH Holdings Singapore have launched one of the world’s first national electronic health record (NEHR) systems. Aligned to Singapore’s “one patient, one record” vision, the NEHR enables a single patient health record for clinicians to access across the healthcare continuum.
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Andrew Stern, Reuters
“The country’s largest physicians’ group adopted policies on Tuesday calling for easier-to-use electronic patient records and better nutrition in prisons, but put off recommending a tax on sugary soft drinks.
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Eysenbach G. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(5 Suppl 2)
Infodemiology, an emerging area of research at the crossroads of consumer health informatics and public health informatics, as well as infometrics and web analytics tools, can be defined as the science of distribution and determinants of information in an electronic medium, specifically the Internet, with the ultimate aim to inform public health and public policy. Infodemiology data (derived from unstructured, textual, openly accessible information produced and consumed by the public on the Internet, such as blogs, websites, and query and navigation data) can be collected and analyzed in near real-time.
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Jenny Laurello, HealthITExchange
“If physicians are now doing work normally done by others, do they have a clear understanding of the benefits to their patients, if not themselves? Can we clearly demonstrate how our system contributes to patient safety, or are we assuming that it’s obvious?
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HIE Works
“I’ve written often of the values of a bottom-up, private market approach to Health Information Exchange (“HIE”) deployment. The implementation and successful, deep, broad deployment of HIE brings with it competitive advantages that include better care, improved physician alignment, enhanced referral flow, and higher patient affinity and satisfaction.
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“Topic 3 on last nights #HITsm Tweetchat got into discussions of who owns patient data. The moral high ground today seems to be towards “patient ownership.” Reality is just a bit different, and I think the discussion of ownership is not all that useful. It should be about rights and responsibilities with respect to patient data, rather than a discussion of ownership. My statement on this is remarkably similar to a post made by Dave Hitz on his blog.
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EMR Daily News
“I’ve spoken with a number of doctors and practitioners who are hesitant about storing EMR Data “in the cloud”. Inevitably these discussions lead to their number one concern which is security and the possibility of HIPAA problems.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Texas Health Resources received more than $19.5 million in Medicare incentive payments at the end of May for meeting first stage meaningful use. But according to Ferdinand Velasco, MD, vice president and CMIO, the heath system didn’t do it for the money.
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Healthcare IT News
“University of Cincinnati analysis of hospital supply chains – medicines, materials, devices and office supplies – reveals that the use of RFID technology can help hospitals cut as much as 18 percent in labor costs associated with resupplying.
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Virtusa Blog
“Haven’t started planning for ICD-10 implementation yet? Think that you have a lot of time before the implementation compliance date of October 2013? Feeling that you don’t have the budget now but may have it in 2012 and 2013 and can start your planning then?
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Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Ginger.io, a startup spun out of the MIT Media Lab, aims to use data collected automatically from mobile phones to warn users and their physicians that they may be on the verge of a manic episode or a bout of debilitating illness.
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Ann Tracy Mueller, Health Care Communication
“Being a teenaged girl is hard enough. Add diabetes to the mix and imagine the emotions at play. A winning designer in the DiabetesMine annual Design Challenge wants to make diabetes management easier for these young people.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The federal EHR Incentive Program (“Meaningful Use”) is designed to encourage physicians to abandon paper charting, and move their clinical practices onto electronic platforms. This “encouragement” – set out as part of the 2009 ARRA legislation – comes in the form of incentive payments to physicians and hospitals who are able to demonstrate “meaningful use of certified EHR technology.”
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Many of the barriers to widespread adoption of telemedicine are dissolving because of the health system reform law. Not only is it becoming more feasible for health care organizations to adopt telehealth technologies, but it’s also becoming an attractive way to address many issues plaguing the health care industry.
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Michael, Mobile Marketing Watch
“In what is proving to be yet another example of how closely intertwined the burgeoning mHealth industry is with Apple’s most popular mobile products, the FDA has now formally given the green light to a company named Withings (a French start-up that designs, develops, and industrializes connected devices), which has pioneered an iOS blood pressure monitor.
The product is now shipping in the US.
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