Eric Wicklund, The Mobility Blog
“If the conversation at three recent mHealth conferences is any indication, the mobile healthcare “revolution” is already well under way, and healthcare administrators are scrambling to catch up.
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Neil Mehta, KevinMD
“Social media holds a lot of potential for the health care professionals. Is fear of the medium inappropriately leading to professionals avoiding this “social situation”? Have we created a social media anxiety syndrome?
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As small medical practices begin implementing electronic health records, several are turning to Nuance Communications, Inc. to make the transition less painful. Last week, the vendor unveiled its Dragon Medical Practice Edition, which it says will help physicians at small practices dictate medical notes directly into any electronic health record (EHR) with increased accuracy.
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Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is testing out metadata standards that state health information exchanges will use for patient information queries and personal health information data security.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“With healthcare’s unique information security requirements, the growth of cloud-based electronic health records (EHRs) is raising a number of new issues regarding data stewardship and organizational responsibility.
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Jaspal S. Sandhu, SSIR
“More than three-quarters of the world’s 5.3 billion mobile phones are located in the developing world. These increasingly powerful devices are proving to be a lifeline for people who need improved access to health services. The trend of using mobile phones for health—known as mHealth—represents an unprecedented opportunity for improving public health.
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Sophie McNamara, MJA InSight
“Computer analysis of routine blood tests can predict which hospital patients are likely to experience a critical event the next day, according to preliminary Australian research.
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Medical News Today
“The device uses the latest advances in computer, sensor, electric motor and battery technology to give it bionic capabilities: It is the first prosthetic with powered knee and ankle joints that operate in unison. It comes equipped with sensors that monitor its user’s motion.
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“John Moore over at Chillmark Research had a great guest post from Dr. Louis Siegel.
In this post, he talks about the Collaborative Health Record. This is a record of a patient’s health that both the physician and the patient have access to.
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Anja Stagge, Healthcare meets Social Media…
“Telemedizin ist an sich nichts Neues, da sie schon praktiziert wird, seitdem es das Telefon gibt. Jedoch ist die Art und Weise wie sie heutzutage angewandt wird etwas Besonderes und Neuartiges.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“For too long, the potential security risks involved in using medical devices have received scant attention. So we’re pleased that two members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to study whether federal regulators are adequately addressing the security risks involved in using wireless medical devices.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Publicizing emergency department wait times through websites and electronic billboards has been a growing trend. Now many of those hospitals are adding a texting service that allows patients to receive up-to-date information on their mobile phones while en route to the hospital.
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Jolein de Rooij, Computable
“Ook alle lokale patiëntendossiers en medicatiedossiers zijn op dit moment illegaal. Dat concludeert CDA-Tweede Kamerlid Pieter Omtzigt. Hij baseert zijn stelling op een zienswijze van het College bescherming persoonsgegevens (CBP).
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Jenny Laurello, HealthITExchange
“The cloud is here and from a technology perspective it is fairly mature. However, from a vertical perspective – health care in this case – it is not always an easy technology to plug in. Health care organizations are treading slowly and testing the waters with some non-PHI applications such as email. There are a number of considerations before taking the leap into the cloud.
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Azucena Santillán, EBE
“Las redes virtuales de profesionales sanitarios preocupados por las buenas practicas cada vez son más numerosas.
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Meaningful HIT News with Neil Versel
“Near the start of the panel, Daniel Orenstein, senior VP and general counsel of Athenahealth tried to put any lingering questions to rest right away. “I think data monetization is kind of a red herring,” Nussbaum said of people who criticize vendors for selling sensitive patient information.
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The Associated Press
“Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see.
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Northern Doc
“After a particularly hard night of resistance work at the infamous Café Michelle some of the team decided to check the NHS Choices website for a laugh. You know how it is when you are waiting for the liver to do its job and the Sunday morning bacon buttie to get digested. We have visited it before and commented on its value for money.
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Reda Chouffani, Meaningful Health Care Informatics Blog
“Due to the recent ARRA stimulus package signed into law, several healthcare organizations have shifted gears in their search for the perfect EHR solution. This excited many of the software vendors in the market place and spurred economic growth in the healthcare IT field.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
