Lisa Collier Cool, healthymagination
“Have you texted your doctor lately? 9 million Americans have done so, while another 17 million have emailed their healthcare providers and 6 million have sent instant messages, according to a new survey by Manhattan Research, unveiled at the HealthWeb Leadership Forum in New York City on October 6.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“When Apple announced its newest iPhone, the 4S, its most notable new feature was Siri, a voice-enabled virtual assistant. Apple acquired the company that created Siri in April 2010, just a few months after the startup’s app went live in the AppStore.
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e-Health-com News
“Soziale Internet-Netzwerke haben einen starken Einfluss auf die Meinungen über Krankheitsepidemien und die Bereitschaft der Menschen, sich mit Impfstoffen zu schützen. Letztendlich sind sie somit auch ein bestimmender Faktor für die Verbreitung von Krankheiten.
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e-Health Insider Acute
“Leeds Teaching Hospital has released the open source code related to its Opensource clinical portal after a successful development phase.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“Forget what Michael Arrigo, managing partner of healthcare practice at No World Borders, wrote about ICD-10 and the mortgage crisis. I’m not saying he’s wrong. I’m saying people aren’t hearing what he’s saying.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“As our regular visitors know, the ICMCC News Page provides you with recent news on Health Information Technology. And with an average of more than 2,500 unique visitors per day from over 150 countries the News Page is one of the best viewed news sources. So we provide a preview from and links to work from others. And we rarely comment. And if we do so, our blog is used.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Roger Baker, CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, outlines the department’s mobile device security strategy, providing details on the rollout of iPhones and iPads.
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Michelle McNickle, Healthcare Finance News
“Healthgrades, an independent source of physician information and hospital quality outcomes, recently released its 2011 Healthcare Consumerism and Hospital Quality in America report, which documented patient outcomes at almost 5,000 American hospitals.
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Debra Beaulieu, FiercePracticeManagement
“I first started writing about physician practices shortly after we’d all survived Y2K, and electronic health records (EHR) were predicted to be the next big thing to revolutionize healthcare.
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Toño G. Parada, TGPSite
“Este fin de semana se ha celebrado “Unirede”, el foro gallego de la web 2.0. Una cita que llevaba tiempo esperando y a la que realmente me apetecía asistir. Aplaudo la iniciativa, solo los que han estado detrás de la organización de un acto de este tipo, saben lo que cuesta ponerlo en marcha.
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Jenn Riggle, Hospital Impact
“Can mobile apps improve Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) satisfaction scores? Maybe…
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Samantha, mHealthWatch
“A pilot study with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina collected data that demonstrated a correlation between weight loss success and motivating text messages.
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Shwen Gwee, Vimeo
“Fabio’s BRILLIANT pecha kucha presentation on Gamification of Healthcare at ePatient Connecitons 2011.”
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“An upcoming efficacy study by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the Text4Baby SMS service will make use of electronic health records (EHR) data, according to an announcement in the US Federal Register.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Of the healthcare providers that received the first batch of federal incentive payments for Meaningful Use of electronic health records (EHRs), around half were using EHRs for several years or longer before the government program began, according to a survey by iWatch News, a publication of the Center for Public Integrity. IWatch News interviewed 62 doctors and hospitals–about a sixth of the total that received incentive payments last spring–to obtain the data for its analysis.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“Some 26 percent of US adults used their mobile phones to access health information in the past year, according to a new Cybercitizen Health study by Manhattan Research. The number has nearly doubled from the 12 percent reported in 2010.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Center for Connected Health has received a research grant from the McKesson Foundation’s Mobilizing for Health initiative to integrate a text-messaging program into an existing program at Massachusetts General Hospital to help diabetes patients better manage their condition.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The American College of Physicians, which represents 132,000 internal medicine specialists, is proposing a privacy rule that says researchers should maximize appropriate uses of information to achieve scientific advances without compromising ethical obligations to protect individual welfare and privacy.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“We suspect there’s going to be a lot of arithmetic going on in Australian hospitals, after a new report claims that better use of advanced clinical information technology in English hospitals could substantially reduce “small errors” in hospitals, and help prevent 16,000 deaths a year.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“The McKinsey study I posted about below offers some intriguing sociological insights into the attitudes of specialists towards ehealth and technology generally. The survey identifies five different attitudinal groupings among specialists.
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