Webster PC. CMAJ, 183(15)
“Canada should revisit its electronic health records (EHRs) strategy in the wake of British recommendations that its similar blueprint should be jettisoned as wasteful and flawed, experts say.
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Margot Murphy McMahons Point, Sydney Morning Herald
“The federal government has released details of the personally controlled electronic health record system it will roll out in July 2012, at a cost of $460 million to the taxpayer (”Sceptics change tune on electronic records”, September 1).
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week two new SMS smoking cessation programs, QuitNowTXT and SmokeFreeTXT, as part of their Text4Health initiative.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“Besides providing punchlines to amateur comedians, it isn’t unreasonable to wonder why there are so many ICD-10-CM/PCS codes.
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PressTV
“Studies show that virtual stroke care or Telestroke may help providing treatment and recovery for stroke sufferers who are admitted to rural hospitals.
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Hudson KL. N Engl J Med, 365(11)
A new generation of genomic technologies permits the increased collection of data on large study populations. New methods in informatics facilitate the integration of diverse types of information with genomic data in disease research. As a result, researchers are learning more about the genetic bases of disease and response to drugs.
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This paper compares the interoperability approaches of three countries: Taiwan, Denmark and Canada. The work maps out how various countries have addressed the interoperability problems as well as what factors affect decisions and the result, and in what manner.
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Neil Savage, Technology Review
“The antidepressant Paxil was approved for sale in 1992, the cholesterol-lowering drug Pravachol in 1996. Company studies proved that each drug, on its own, works and is safe. But what about when they are taken together?
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Medical News Today
“The demand for transparency through publicly available healthcare data is on the rise. This is the case for administrative and clinical data for research, and for clinical trials data used to support new drug approvals. Broad data access has a measurable impact on research and policy making.
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El Emam K et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making,11(1)
BACKGROUND:
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) collects hospital discharge abstract data from Canadian provinces and territories to create a national discharge abstract database (DAD). There are many demands for the disclosure of this data for research and analysis to inform policy making. To expedite the disclosure of this data, the construction of a DAD public use microdata file (PUMF) was considered. A PUMF may serve multiple purposes, including: confirming published results, providing broader feedback to CIHI to improve data quality, training students and fellows, providing an easily accessible data set for researchers to prepare for analyses on the full DAD data set, and serve as a large health data set for computer scientists and statisticians to evaluate analysis and data mining techniques. The objective of this study was to measure the probability of re-identification for records in a PUMF, and to de-identify a national DAD PUMF consisting of 10% of records.
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Yahoo! Finance
“McGill University Hospital Centre in Montréal, Canada, has ordered 95 TotalExam™2 Examination Cameras from Scottsdale, Arizona-based GlobalMed for its telemedicine program in the province of Québec. GlobalMed, the industry leader in telemedicine design, manufacturing and marketing, developed TotalExam to deliver crystal clear digital close-ups of the skin, eyes and throat.
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EMR, EHR & Health Care Technology
“There is a sea of information available on the internet about cloud computing and how it works. As a doctor with limited interest in information technology, understanding all that jargon (most of which may not even be directly related to your work and computing requirements) can be quite intimidating and time consuming.
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Melissa Burden, The Detroit News
“Michiganians who have an urgent medical question, lack insurance or just want access to a doctor and prescription after hours can increasingly reach for their phones or computers for an instant chat or webcam conversation with a physician or nurse.
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John Przybys, Las Vegas Review-Journal
“When did you have that appendectomy? What’s the dosage of your blood pressure medication? What was your blood glucose level last Wednesday at noon?
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Michael West, Happy EMR Doctor
“The Huffington Post recently had an interesting video in which an orthopedic surgeon poo-poos EHRs because they waste time and cause him to have to type up his notes. He tries to say that dictation is the way to go, in order to ease the pain of using electronic medical records.
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Apiscam
“Andalucía exportará su software de simulación 3D a otras unidades de cirugía y más especialidades médicas. La herramienta de realidad virtual VirSSPA, que a partir de ahora se llamará Ayra, ha sido licenciada para su explotación por parte de la empresa Ikiria, que permitirá comercializarlo a otros hospitales y otras clínicas, incluso de otras comunidades y países.
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Reda Chouffani, Meaningful Health Care Informatics Blog
“This week senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Representatives Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) introduced a bill that would require the issuance to all Medicare members smart card. In the bill become law physician practices and practitioners would be required to have a membership card.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Tom Wilemon, The Tennessean
“Dr. Mathew Ninan could tell a 19-year-old patient wasn’t really listening to his spiel about not smoking, so he said the magic word: app.
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Daniel Kivatinos, Dr Chrono
“Did you know that IBM’s Watson Supercomputer is operating at the level of a second or third year medical student? Watson is.
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