Egle Mikalajunaite, research2guidance
“One of the basic questions every developer asks themselves before publishing an application is whether to charge for download, or to monetize the app another way. The decision to set a price for a download, however, does not end here.
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CMIO
“Wider use of EHRs, along with computerized provider order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support (CDS) and barcode medication administration, could play critical roles in addressing the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals, according to a recent commentary in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Mónica Martín, ABC
“El proyecto «Gestión del conocimiento biomédico en la nube», presentado hoy en el Hospital Clínico San Carlos (HCSC), ha sido promovido por la empresa española Abadía, con la participación de dicho hospital y el respaldo de importantes compañías como Madrid Network, Banco Santander/Universia y NEC; además del aval de sociedades científicas, instituciones académicas y entidades sanitarias.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“A smart carpet could be in your future as part of the soon-to-explode home health IT market, the National Academy of Sciences predicts.
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Douglas Page, H&HN Magazine
“Hospitals are under constant pressure to share electronic health information, while simultaneously reducing costs and maintaining control over data privacy.
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David Ormesher, The Difference Makers
“You know all those shiny iPads in the hands of doctors? The ones that are used during office visits, replacing the old paper charts? Now that doctors are embracing Electronic Health Records and working overtime to ensure that they can prove Meaningful Use, we’ve introduced a new unintended consequence. We’ve introduced another opportunity for the compromise of sensitive patient records.
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Ann Tracy Mueller, Health Care Communication News
“In health care social media, I like to think there are lots of the second type—those users who are out here strong and steady, reliable, giving the others on shore something to admire and keeping in shape themselves. Not in shape by building muscles, but by building a storehouse of knowledge on health care communication. These are the people who motivate others by sharing their enthusiasm and encouraging participation.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“With the sweeping use of mobile devices by healthcare providers, physicians and hospitals need to embrace best practices for protecting sensitive patient data, privacy experts say. For example, encrypt sensitive data when it is necessary to store on wireless devices.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“PHR provider Dossia unveiled the latest version of its Dossia Health Manager software this week. It will be available to existing customers in the third quarter of 2011.
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Frank Irving, Healthcare IT News
“Amid the move by physicians and hospitals to adopt EHRs, patients remain concerned about the security of their personal health information. That’s the high-level finding of an online survey conducted in early May among more than 2,700 U.S. adults by Harris Interactive on behalf of Xerox Corporation.
Xerox, a $22 billion business process and document management firm, released a summary of the survey findings on July 20.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Using a Beacon grant provided by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, the Mayo Clinic is building what may be the next generation of health information exchanges (HIE) with a group of healthcare providers in southeast Minnesota. In this real-world demonstration, Mayo will apply the computer tools it is developing through a federal SHARP grant to create new methods of mining electronic health record (EHR) data.
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Erin Walkinshaw, CMAJ
“The office is rewired. The holes have been patched where the electricians gouged out the drywall and all is freshly repainted.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“My hunch tells me Google never really had a plan to make anything out of Google Health. I’m thinking back to the 2007 World Health Care Congress in Washington, when Google was rumored to be developing some sort of PHR product.
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ID Experts
“Mobile devices have become as common as the stethoscope in patient’s rooms. Physicians routinely review patients’ electronic health records (EHR), read test results, access diagnostic tools and take patient notes, all with a few touches on their iPad or tablet, smartphone or using a flash drive. These mobile devices are ideal for information sharing and time savings, but they pose huge security risks to patient information.
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Business Wire
“Nearly 80 percent of respondents who have concerns about digital medical records indicated stolen personal information by a computer hacker to be their number one worry, followed by the threat of lost, damaged or corrupted records at 64 percent and the misuse of information at 62 percent.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“The collaboration formed last year by tech giants GE and Intel to advance telehealth solutions has set its sights on homebound seniors.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“Science fiction writers have something in common with chief technology officers (CTO). They both spend a lot of time imagining the future. And the really good ones will see their visions take shape.
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Shanna Crispin, e-Health Insider
“NHS Bristol is to take advantage of mobile technology as it rolls out a new telehealth service to patients with long-term conditions.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“There’s been no shortage of reports on the fact that smaller providers are making the HIT leap much more slowly than larger ones.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“With the constant barrage of meaningful use success stories in the media—number of providers enrolled, dollars of incentives earned, and case studies about practices that have already received their money—it pains me to see that the experience on the ground quite often does not reflect this reality.
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