Tom Simonite, Technology Review
“Could a mobile app save your life? Aza Raskin thinks so. Formerly in charge of design and user experience for Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser, Raskin left the company last year to start Massive Health, a startup based in San Francisco that’s pursuing secretive plans to launch a mobile health app later this year.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“More changes to health information privacy rules, and a stronger push for electronic health records interoperability, could be forthcoming under the final Federal Health I.T. Strategic Plan for the next five years from Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
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Robert L. Edsall and Kenneth G. Adler, AAFP
“We were able to collect a total of 3,427 responses, far more than in previous surveys. Of those, 603 were excluded because the respondents said they did not use EHR systems; 99 were excluded because they either did not name the system they use, named a practice management system rather than an EHR system, named a “home-grown” proprietary system or named something that we could not verify to be an EHR system;
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KP News Center
“At a Health and Human Services event today, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius kicked off a summit with more than 25 health care stakeholder organizations, of which Kaiser Permanente was one, that have pledged to empower consumers by making it easier for them to get secure access to their health information to engage more fully in their health.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“We are now in the home stretch of demonstrating Meaningful Use of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology for 2011. For the Medicare pathway to Meaningful Use incentive money – $18,000 per doctor in the first year of payouts – a certified EHR system needs to be used “meaningfully” for 90 consecutive days in 2011. The way in which Meaningful Use is demonstrated is by attesting to 20 of 25 criteria that have been specified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Arie C. Nieuwenhuijzen Kruseman, KNMG
“Patiënten die ik mijn e-mailadres heb gegeven, kunnen mij altijd bereiken voor vragen over uitslagen of een voorgestelde behandeling. En zij doen dat ook. Meer en meer wordt via twitterspreekuren informatie tussen artsen, ziekenhuizen en patiënten of patiëntgroepen uitgewisseld.
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UKauthorITy.com
“The Scottish Government has unveiled a new electronic strategy for its health service. Under the proposals, patients will become more involved in their own healthcare and services and have direct access to their electronic records.
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Peter Witonsky, EHRWatch
“The transition from paper records to electronic medical records (EMRs) promises to improve healthcare efficiency, clinical decision-making and patient outcomes. The U.S. government is even prepared to provide $19 billion in incentives for hospitals that can demonstrate “meaningful use” of EMRs.
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Birgit Pscheidl, Stiftung Gesundheit Blog
“Vor gut einem Jahr haben wir auf unserem Jahresempfang das neue Prüfverfahren für gesundheitsbezogene Websites vorgestellt. Dabei überprüfen mehrere unabhängige Gutachter die Homepages anhand eines detaillierten Prüfungskatalogs, der weit über 100 Einzelaspekte berücksichtigt
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Healthcare organizations are slowly turning to the cloud to run applications. That’s especially true for smaller healthcare providers who don’t have the IT staff or resources to roll out and support new in-house applications, let alone the hardware, networking, or other IT infrastructure that goes along with it.
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Pablo Pazos Gutiérrez, Informática Médica y Estándares
“Hace algunos meses que las listas de mail de openEHR están colmadas de propuestas sobre cómo mejorar la organización de la fundación openEHR, cómo coordinar el trabajo y cómo lograr resultados tangibles.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“In yesterday’s post about the Consumer Health IT Summit, I noted how access to data plus the trusted relationships around it are important.
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Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“mHealth penetration of healthcare isn’t a done deal. iPads and smartphones may seem ubiquitous–and there are plenty of them in circulation in hospitals today–but the truth is most hospital electronic medical records are still evolving mobile capability, Wi-Fi access is still sketchy at many facilities, and mobile security/enterprise management systems are still in their infancy.
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Carl Natale, Healthcare IT News
“A benefit of being one of the very few countries in the world to not implement ICD-10 coding yet is that we can learn from how the other countries did it. Canada is one of those countries where we can find lessons.
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Live interactive videoconferencing and other technologies offer innovative opportunities for effective delivery of specialized child and adolescent mental health services. In this article, an example of a comprehensive telepsychiatry program is presented to highlight a variety of capacity-building initiatives that are responsive to community needs and cultures; these initiatives are allowing children, youth and caregivers to access otherwise-distant specialist services within their home communities.
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Hanna van de Wetering, Medisch Contact
“Een SEH-arts uit Rhode Island postte informatie over een patiënt op Facebook. Hoewel ze geen naam noemde, beschreef ze zo veel details dat buitenstaanders de patiënt konden herkennen. Ze kreeg een berisping en een boete van 500 dollar. Dat het ziekenhuis niet de plek is om een hype als planking uit te voeren, ondervonden Engelse artsen en verpleegkundigen toen zij in 2009 werden geschorst nadat zij zichzelf op verschillende plekken in het ziekenhuis gestrekt op de buik liggend hadden laten fotograferen. Over een verpleegkundige uit Minnesota ging het gerucht dat ze foto’s van zichzelf met naakte patiënten op haar Facebook-profiel had staan. Hoewel de patiënten op haar Facebook-foto’s gekleed waren, verloor zij toch haar baan.
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Dave Pearson, CMIO
“How and when should the FDA regulate mobile medical apps that act as accessories to medical devices? When should it not regulate them at all? Those questions were taken up in a midday panel discussion on day one of FDA’s Sept. 12 and 13 workshop on its draft guidance for mobile medical device applications.
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Haydn Bush, H&HN Daily
“Would you let a doctor have access to data about the frequency of your teenager’s text messages and phone calls if it allowed him to potentially predict negative health events?
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Robert Tennant and Tina Wardrop, H&HN Daily
“Nationwide, hospitals aggressively are acquiring physicians and creating tighter affiliations with physician groups.
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Amanda Buie, Healthcare IT Solutions
“If the $19 billion in stimulus money allocated for the adoption of EHRs wasn’t an indicator that EHRs are a critical piece to the industry, then the U.S. Surgeon General’s announcement that they will be pushing the EHR movement along so that patients can “take control of their own health” and have the necessary information to “make choices easy” should get the attention of providers.
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