Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Electronic prescribing is plagued by numerous interface problems and communications gaps between physician offices and pharmacies, according to a study recently published in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association. Some of the deficiencies reflect underlying structural problems in the electronic prescribing software that many physicians use.
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Dinesh Chandra Gaur, TopNews
“There are a lot of benefits to introduce an electronic health records system, but most importantly it would make the management of health records of 21st century level.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“We all know the expected challenges of implementing an electronic health record — not having enough time, money or resources to go around.
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Tu HT. HSChange Tracking Report No. 26, 2011
In 2010, 50 percent of American adults sought information about a personal health concern, down from 56 percent in 2007, according to a new national study from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). The likelihood of people seeking information from the Internet and from friends and relatives changed little between 2007 and 2010, but their use of hardcopy books, magazines and newspapers dropped by nearly half to 18 percent.
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Nrip Nihalani, Plus 91
“The internet has become the most important source of information in the world. A recent survey in India found that seventy two percent of Indians online search for healthcare related information.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“The U.S. market for electronic medical records is expected to exceed $8 billion by 2016, up from $4.6 billion today, with the fastest-growing segment occurring in the small practice market, according to an industry report by Millennium Research Group.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Mobile and wireless technologies are helping give rise to a new form of clinical decision support that’s being called “patient activation.”
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Faye Flam, Philly.com
“As a biologist and computer scientist, Pennsylvania State University’s Marcel Salathe studies the viral spread of information and the spread of real viruses.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“One of the themes coming out of the American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) 2011 Convention & Exhibit was that some healthcare providers are on top of their ICD-10 implementation plans.
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Tom Sullivan, Healthcare IT News
“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has its work cut out in transitioning to ICD-10. As the largest payer and the force driving the new code sets in the United States, CMS has a task at least as intimidating as anyone else when it comes to implementation.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Much of the vision of how the nation’s healthcare system should ideally function, once moved from its paper-based legacy onto an electronic platform, involves the sharing of clinical information between different places and systems. After all, a given patient typically sees about 19 different physicians in a lifetime – which means that an individual’s health story is fragmented across a diverse landscape.
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ASIP Santé
“La rencontre, organisée dans les locaux de la FIEEC dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris, a permis de présenter à plus de 100 représentants des industriels du secteur de la e-santé en France un tour d’horizon des initiatives les plus innovantes en Europe dans les champs de la télémédecine et de la télésanté.
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Craig Byer, Health IT Pulse
“With Thanksgiving only two days away, CIOs of health care organizations can be thankful for a new guide that will aid them in making decisions on how to achieve health information exchange (HIE).
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BJ-HC News
“A telemedicine network across Scotland is enabling expert care from specialist centres in the major hospitals to be provided remotely to clinics across the highlands and islands.
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Jeff Byers, Cardiovascular Business
“Using a patient-specific diabetes dashboard improves both the efficiency and accuracy of acquiring data needed for high-quality diabetes care, according to research published in the September/October edition of Annals of Family Medicine.
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Healthcare Technology Online
“CriticalKey, LLC has signed a five-year contract with Beth Israel Medical Center to provide interoperability services that enable the 1,386-bed New York teaching hospital to electronically distribute radiology results directly to referring physicians.
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Rachel Z. Arndt, Fast Company
“After more than three years of struggle, the online records service Google Health will cease to exist come January 1.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality finds that physician practices and pharmacies are both keen on e-prescribing’s ability to improve safety and save time – but that both groups face barriers to realizing its full benefit.
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Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Hugo Campos is a man on a mission. He wants access to the data being collected inside his body by an implanted cardiac defibrillator. He believes that having this information could help him take control of his health—for example, by helping him figure out what triggers his frequent attacks of abnormal heart rhythms.
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Emg.rs
“Minister of Health Zoran Stankovic said today, opening a two-day regional conference dedicated to quality and certification of electronic health records (EHR) and an annual conference of the EuroRec Institute that the development of the information system is important for progress in health care.
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