Mark van Dorresteijn, Zorgvisie
“Het Radboud REshape & Innovation Center, onderdeel van het UMC St Radboud, heeft afgelopen vrijdag de videowebsite Myhealthstory.me gelanceerd. Op deze site kunnen patiënten en zorgverleners video’s plaatsen over hun ervaringen met ziekte, aandoeningen, behandeling en acceptatie.
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Adam Bazer, HIMSS Blog
“So are you ready? Sitting back and looking forward to the change? Worried that you’re just getting started?
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“A free service made available Sept. 26 by MediConnect Global gives healthcare providers the ability to host, access and exchange medical records in a cloud-based repository called the National Secured Archive (NSA).
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Brian Mossop, The Decision Tree
“People use Facebook, Twitter, or other social media sites as channels for self-expression. But whether updating or uploading, people are telling their social stories with only two tools: text and images.
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Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“The process of conducting and administering medical tests and getting lab results back to patients sounds easy enough. But it was anything but at Walnut Lake OB/GYN three years ago.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“The number of physicians using sites such as Facebook and Twitter has grown so quickly that Gabriel Bosslet, MD, realized the moment his study on physician social media use appeared in June that it already was out of date.
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Bosslet GT et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2011
BACKGROUND:
The use of online social networks (OSNs) among physicians and physicians-in-training, the extent of patient-doctor interactions within OSNs, and attitudes among these groups toward use of OSNs is not well described.
OBJECTIVE:
To quantify the use of OSNs, patient interactions within OSNs, and attitudes toward OSNs among medical students (MS), resident physicians (RP), and practicing physicians (PP) in the United States.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“As health care facilities increasingly adopt electronic health records (EHRs), a large number of consumers are fearful of the ability of organizations to keep them secure, according to a survey performed by Harris Interactive and commissioned by SailPoint.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Britain’s National Health Service is significantly scaling back its National Programme for IT, a decade-old initiative to implement electronic health records across the nation of about 60 million.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Online community support holds great promise for creating healthy habits, according to a new study of a mobile health application geared toward helping people quit smoking.
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Hospital Network
“When one mentions “mobile healthcare,” most people tend to think of the mobile computers, tablets, and smartphones that enable clinicians to access and record information on the move and at the point of care. While these devices have been and will continue to be instrumental in the mobilization of care, it’s important to remember that several new innovations will ultimately take this concept to the next level.
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AnneryanHeatwole, MobileActive.org
“The Ugandan Ministry of Health has launched an initiative to digitize the country’s health management systems. Because mobile technology can be the fastest, cheapest means of collecting and analyzing data, especially in rural areas, the Minstry is embracing mobile technology to create a seamless system of health management and early warning techniques across the country.
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Steve, EMR Daily News
“Apixio Inc., a provider of clinical integration and search solutions for private health data, and Chinese Community Health Care Association (CCHCA), a provider of healthcare to the community of San Francisco
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Contrary to popular belief, a new study has found that older physicians who are clinically busier and see more complex patients are more likely to use new EHR functionality than younger clinicians.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“How many patients have taken on the project of digitizing their personal health records? My guess is not many.
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Brien M. Posey, SearchHealthIT
“The health care industry relies on data. Physicians need data to make the proper diagnosis, and they increasingly need to share data with other providers. One way of making this data available to those who need it is to store it in the cloud.
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John Moehrke, Healthcare Security/Privacy
“Last week a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers introduced legislation that would bring digital identities to Medicare patients. This is fantastic news, and a logical extension of the VA and DoD use of their Common Access Card (CAC). This will bring another very large chunk of the population supporting one standard for Digital Identity.
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Angel Garcia, Healthcare IT News
“Talking to doctors about an EMR makes them run the other way or just simply tune out the speaker even with all of the government incentives and impending penalties by Medicare and Medicaid.
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John Jesitus, ModernMedicine
“Potential problems that can arise with electronic health record (EHR) implementations range from technical difficulties to legal wrangling over responsibility for the necessary hardware, software and data, say two dermatologists and a lawyer.
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Nictiz
“Communicatie over het portaal speelt een belangrijke rol bij het gaan gebruiken van een portaal.
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