Mark Scrimshire, ekivemark
“If we really want to transform health and enable a better quality of life we need to recognize the social and environmental dimension in the lives of each and everyone of us. Consequently the EMR and the PHR need to evolve to embrace this new world.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Some pharmaceutical companies shut down Facebook pages, while others monitored and deleted visitor comments, after the social media site on Aug. 15 stopped giving drug companies the option of preventing public comments on their pages.
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Rickard J et al, Heart Rhythm, 2011
BACKGROUND:
The Wriskwatch(tm) is a novel, watch-based pulse detection device that detects the loss of a radial pulse via advanced pulse detection technology and immediately contacts emergency medical systems.
OBJECTIVE:
We designed a first in man, prospective, single-blinded, phase I study to evaluate the ability of this device to detect motionlessness and pulselessness in human subjects as a simulation of sudden cardiac death.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“For physicians who want a mobile device, what’s the best choice — a smartphone or a tablet? Or both? Or something else? Experts say the answer depends on how a physician is planning to use the device, and where.
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Jean DerGurahian, SearchHealthIT
“As electronic health record (EHR) use climbs, and even more health care information is stored in electronic systems, the legal implications of how that data is accessed and used continue to grow — and provider organizations increasingly wonder how their liability is affected.
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The Telegraph
“Professor Sir Bruce Keogh said that IT will ”completely change the way we deliver medicine” making access to GPs at any time a reality and giving patients the ability to talk to specialists anywhere in the country.
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Joshi JK. The Internet Journal of Medical Informatics, 6(1)
Objectives:
We describe the clinical utility- both positive and negative- of Health Information Exchanges (HIE) in order to ascertain how true value can be attained through the adoption of such a system.
Methods:
We performed a literature review over multiple databases of 350 articles pertaining to the topic. After screening for relevance, we selected 135 articles that discuss studies pertaining to HIE.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“After I wrote about what concerns shared by healthcare providers inspired by ICD-10 implementation, I posted a question on our LinkedIn Group.
“What concerns you most about the ICD-10 transition?”
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“After a lot of foot-dragging, the White House and federal agencies are taking some steps that seem to indicate they get it. In case you missed it, last week USA Today reported the Obama Administration announced it wanted a review of regulations that – if removed – could save about $10 billion over the next five years.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Dave Chase, TechCrunch
“Healthtech is an ever-growing sector, but from the $1 billion pool VCs poured into startups over the last year, health companies only received about 3 percent of that total.
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Kenny Lin, Healthcare Headaches
“Doctors of my generation have experienced dramatic changes in the way we access the information we need to care for patients. As a medical student 15 years ago, my “peripheral brain” consisted of fat textbooks sitting on office bookshelves or smaller, spiral-bound references stuffed into the bulging pockets of my lab coat.
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Kathy Drayton, Karen Robinson, DH
“The NHS currently spends more than £11bn every year on community services, yet on the whole community services have not received the same support for the modernisation of working practices that has been afforded to the primary and secondary care domains.
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The Malaysian Star
“Each day, referring physicians encounter enormous tasks serving patients and making accurate diagnoses. Regardless of location, they want to be on the go and demand easy access to online patients’ images and exams. Being mobile whilst carrying out these tasks is key to a physician’s productivity and efficiency.
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Martin Young, KevinMD
“Things have been a bit tough of late, the bad economy is starting to bite, and you’re feeling the pressure. To top it all, your body has been acting strangely in ways it never has before. Your muscles twitch in funny areas for hours at a time, you tire easily, and you have fleeting pins and needles in your limbs.
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“From the beginning, everyone has said how great it would be if everyone’s medical records were digitized and available when needed, 24/7…UNTIL someone has to pay the bill.
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MarketWatch
“A new study conducted by Humana and the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (WHIE) found that health information exchanges (HIE), when used in emergency departments, resulted in improved provider efficiencies and health plan cost savings.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“A six-year project that would make it easier to program interfaces between laboratories and ambulatory-care electronic health records (EHRs) is close to fruition. But it’s unclear whether EHR vendors will pay much attention to it unless the government includes it in future Meaningful Use requirements.
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“Some providers are concerned that their patients may not feel comfortable talking to a camera. Well, the industry publication, Telemedicine and eHealth, has made available a study, titled “Change of Patients’ Perceptions of Telemedicine After Brief Use” and it’s free! The study was done in the Netherlands and involved two groups of people, a total of 30 in all.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“It’s a chicken-or-egg question: Will doctors adopting EHRs lead to a rise in the use of Personal Health Records (PHRs), or will increasing consumer demand for personal health information force reluctant doctors to go digital?
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