Natalie Morrison, Outsourcing-pharma
“Blue Chip Patient Recruitment says the future of patient sourcing for clinical trials lies in social media.
The patient recruitment specialist surveyed 179 adults – all actively engaged members of health-related social media networks above the age of 18 – from February to April.
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Anthony Wong, The Australian
“As the infrastructure for the National Broadband Network rolls out across the nation, work is ramping up on the applications that will leverage the power of high-speed broadband to drive economic growth and improve our quality of life.
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Simon James, Pulse+IT
“Electronic medical records, document scanning, email, secure messaging and computer-based faxing have all served to put downward pressure on the amount of paper modern medical practices have to handle on a day to day basis.
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Deirdre Shesgreen, The CT Monitor
“Lygeia Ricciardi sits at the intersection of federal health care reform and the digital revolution. Her job, in a nutshell, is to transform lofty and complex public health goals into easy-to-use, Internet-ready “patient empowerment” tools.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“When it comes to electronic records, health care providers have a lot of explaining to do, say consultants who analyzed results of an online poll of 2,720 U.S. adults.
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Eric Topol, ModernHealthcare
“Mobile digital devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and e-readers, have had a rapid and profound impact on our daily lives, affecting how we read, shop, play games, search for information, think and behave. This transformation was predicated on a mature Internet with highly developed wireless networks, ever-increasing bandwidth and pervasive connectivity.
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Michael Spitz, pharmaphorum
“Although the issuance of draft guidance for mobile medical applications by the FDA on July 19th came as a surprise to many, experts close to the field have sensed that this summer would prove to be an important and pivotal period for the mHealth regulatory scheme.
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Whitney L.J. Howell, H&HN magazine
“Hospitals never close, but that doesn’t mean someone from every specialty is always on call. A growing number of facilities aren’t scheduling radiologists for overnight and weekend shifts, and others no longer have them on staff. Instead, they rely on teleradiology companies to fulfill their imaging needs.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Following closely on the ill-fated demise of Google Health, fellow Personal Health Platform (PHP) provider Dossia announced last week a major upgrade of their platform with the release of Dossia Health Manager.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Kaiser Permanente and scientists at UCSF are celebrating the first major milestone of their genomics project – they have genotyped the DNA and analyzed the length of chromosome tips in more than 100,000 Kaiser Permanente members. Officials say that their electronic health record played a critical role in helping to achieve this in just 15 months.
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Eric Wicklund, The Mobility Blog
“A recently announced cross-licensing deal between the iRobot Corp. and InTouch Health may give rise to the vision of mechanized nurses and janitors – imagine the Terminator showing up at your bedside – but the concept isn’t all that far-fetched.
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Diana Manos, Government Health IT
“Healthcare systems running on legacy software, customized commercial products or homegrown EHR systems that would cost hundreds of millions to replace can breath a sigh of relief, according to CCHIT.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The contest by the Veterans Affairs Department to expand its Blue Button download capability to veterans treated by private sector physicians is a bid to extend access to information to all patients, said a senior VA official.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Policies for protecting the privacy of patient information that’s used for research will be considered in the context of broader new federal guidelines for protecting human research subjects.
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Erickson BJ. Journal of Digital Imaging, 24(4)
The purpose of this article is to describe a system we developed for importing images on compact discs (CDs) from external imaging departments into our clinical image viewing system, and to report on key metrics regarding veracity of information seen on the CDs. We recommend careful attention to the process of CD importation because of the error rate we have seen. We developed a system and process for importing images on CD into our EMR. The importation system scans the CD for digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) images, and collects all patient information seen.
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“If you’re old enough, you probably remember visiting the doctor’s office in the 1950s. It was like walking into a church. The waiting room was quiet, and when you met with the doctor, it was: “Yes, doctor. No, doctor. Whatever you say, doctor.” Mostly it was: Speak when you’re spoken to.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, Chris Murphy, InformationWeek
“If there’s one thing that’s going to revolutionize healthcare, whether it’s IT, ACOs, or any aspect of health reform, what you’re going to see is patients taking back healthcare from their providers.” That’s the prediction Neil Calman, MD, the CEO and co-founder of the Institute for Family Health, made at InformationWeek Healthcare’s IT Leadership Forum in New York City earlier this month.
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CMIO
“The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft document to tackle the increasing challenge of maintaining confidentiality and the integrity of personally identifiable information by adding privacy controls to the catalog of security controls used to protect federal information and information systems.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Does typing a prescription into a computer mean automatically reducing the risk of medication errors, compared with the old-fashioned written script?
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“The FDA will not seek to regulate mobile medical apps that perform the functionality of an electronic health record system or personal health record system. However, the FDA defined a small subset of mobile medical apps that may impact the functionality of currently regulated medical devices that will require oversight.
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