Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should work together “to regulate, certify and monitor healthcare applications and systems” that integrate home medical devices such as blood-pressure monitors and health information technology systems used by clinicians, according to a report from the National Research Council.
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Tony Ryzinski, USNews
“Located in a medically underserved area of rural north-central Wisconsin, Peter Christensen Health Center shows how the successful transition to an electronic health record system, or EHR, can fully support improved performance for patients—even amid the most challenging of circumstances.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“Hopefully I have persuaded you that the change from ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes is big. But it may surprise you to learn it may be less intimidating than you think.
For example, you’re not going to have to be responsible for remembering thousands of ICD-10 codes. Your practice tends to deal with a subset of the possible diagnoses.
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Gene Ostrovsky, MedGadget
“A new mattress developed by a spinoff company of Swiss institutes Empa and the ETH Zurich can gently turn a patient so as to prevent decubitus ulcers and help nurses avoid doing this difficult, and often unpleasant, task.
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Ann Tracy Mueller, Health Care Communication News
“Health care isn’t just about being sick any more. Now mobile technology is making it 24/7.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The American Telemedicine Assocation (ATA) sent a public letter to the FCC last week, criticizing the agency for inaction on a rural healthcare program. The letter was signed by ATA CEO Jonathan D. Linkous and addressed to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
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Sjaak Nouwt, KNMG
“Over de perikelen rond het Elektronisch Patiënten Dossier (EPD) blijf ik me verwonderen. Zo was daar de opmerkelijke uitspraak van een kritisch Kamerlid tijdens een debat over het EPD: “Zelf wil ik niet in de landelijke registratie. Als ik bij de huisarts kom, vraagt die mij heel simpel: mag ik de apotheek het receptje mailen of wilt u het zelf brengen? Op dat moment geef ik toestemming; zo kan het ook.”
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Microsoft has announced that people using the Google Health service – scheduled to close on Jan. 1, 2012 – can transfer personal health information stored in a Google Health profile to a Microsoft HealthVault account using the Direct Project messaging protocols.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“The world’s smallest and most fragile people need all the help they can get.
Two recent reports concerning the use of telemedicine in hospitals or hospital departments catering to children paints a promising picture for the technology’s deployment in NICUs and other areas.
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Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“At heart, Watson is an electronic health record reader. Once that technology is correctly combined with picture archiving and communication system (PACS) technology, diagnosis times for patients could be shortened tremendously, according to Dr. Eliot Siegel, a radiology professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“A new federally mandated medical coding system designed to better track diagnoses and treatments is requiring a massive overhaul of healthcare IT systems that some say will be nearly impossible to complete on time.
Medical providers and insurance payers must move from the current ICD-9 coding system to ICD-10 by Oct. 1, 2013.
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Sally Pipes, Forbes
“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released some data that show that the digital revolution continues to evade health care.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The British Medical Association has issued new guidance to doctors and medical students, advising them not to accept Facebook requests from current or former patients.
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Keith Brannon, New Wave
“For most of us, it’s the gadget that’s never far away. But, for diabetics, could the cell phone be the key to keeping their blood glucose in check? That’s the question Dr. Vivian Fonseca asks in new study that uses computer software and text messages to help diabetics manage their blood sugar.
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David Hastoglis, Healthcare IT Solutions
“An Enterprise HIE is defined as the mobilization of healthcare information electronically across organizations. The Enterprise HIE can be used to move information within a region, community or hospital system. As such, the Enterprise HIE system is a great answer to problems found when forming an ACO. HIE provides the capability to electronically move clinical information among disparate health care information systems while maintaining the meaning of the information being exchanged. 
A HIE can also assist public health authorities in the analysis of the health of the population, which aids the cost cutting goals of accountable care. Ultimately, the goal of an HIE is to facilitate access to and retrieval of clinical data.”
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Adoption of new technology is no longer a trend found only among younger doctors.
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Cleland JGF, Barrett D. European Cardiology, 6(3)
Over recent years, telehealth has increasingly demonstrated its value in supporting the delivery of cardiovascular healthcare. From teletriage services as a portal into healthcare through to telemonitoring of heart failure patients, technology is already increasing the ability of practitioners to provide care remotely, empower patients and improve clinical outcomes. In the future, telehealth services have the potential to have an even greater impact on the provision of cardiovascular care.
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Dick Vinegar, Guardian Professional
“I became depressed when I read a fortnight ago that David Barrett and Professor John Cleland of the University of Hull find the evidence for telehealth to be “equivocal”. It is this kind of academic study that luddite GPs grab hold of to justify not adopting a new technology.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“I suggest anyone who is interested in the area read the whole paper carefully and then e-mail NEHTA (terminologies@nehta.gov.au) asking them just when the work recommended here will be undertaken and finalised. A decision to deploy SNOMED CT was made by NEHTA about 4 years ago and the very limited use so far also suggests there are some significant implementation problems.
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Mail Online
“Scientists have designed a remarkable new gadget which turns a mobile phone into a powerful medical tool able to detect heart problems.
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