Brian Wheeler, BBC News
“Sickweather claims to be different because it operates in real time using data from social networks, rather than news reports or internet search terms, and is designed for use by individuals, rather than public health officials. It has already been dubbed “Facebook for hypochondriacs”.
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David Rodríguez Carenas, Diario Médico
“La tecnología surge para cubrir necesidades, y uno de los mayores retos en nuestros tiempos es el envejecimiento de la población. Por eso una de las líneas de investigación es el desarrollo de aplicaciones que ayuden a la tercera edad, con la robótica como uno de los campos con más futuro.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Among reaction to the American Medical Association’s vow to fight implementation of ICD-10, the American Health Information Management Association and Forbes magazine take decidedly different views.
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Tom Sullivan, Government Health IT
“Curious as to what impact the forthcoming ICD-10 mandate might have on The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services? An analysis of CMS determined the seven major business realms that ICD-10 will touch.
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Mobile Aspects
“The surgical environment is an unique setting for patient care, drastically different from inpatient medical-surgical care settings and outpatient care settings. Important operational needs such as maximizing available time for procedure rooms, optimizing case turnaround times, and having the flexibility to accommodate scheduled and non-scheduled cases make this environment dynamic, exciting and at times, unpredictable.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“Last week’s EMR Straight Talk post, “Are EHRs Being Oversold,” hit a nerve, judging by the number of readers and the volume and intensity of comments submitted by physicians.
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TJ McCue, Forbes
“Mr. Bruning explained that she is focused on adaptive technology that will help people live a better life. Some of it is fun to look at or experience, but much of it has real-world applications that only a handful are exploring. She pointed me to look at Point Locus, haptic navigation for the visually impaired (see my recent post on Steve Hoefer and his Sonar for the Blind glove that he’s working on).
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Joel Selanikio, Mobile Message
“In 1995, I was working as a health officer for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One evening found me kneeling on the concrete floor of a small hostel in rural Western Kenya, pocket knife in hand, laptop on the floor in front of me. With the hostel manager’s permission, I was hand-splicing the one telephone landline embedded in the wall to the port on my laptop – in order to connect to the Internet via a phone number in Nairobi.
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“Google’s PHR (personal health record) product, Google Health, will cease operations on January 1, 2012. The official Google Blog offers an explanation for the company’s decision to retire their Google Health product: Google’s goal to translate their “successful consumer-centered approach” to the healthcare domain did not have the hoped for impact on a sufficient number of Google users.
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Kerry Stark, ICD10 Watch
“We applaud today’s announcement by CMS that it will delay the compliance date for the new 5010 HIPAA transaction standards to March 31, 2012.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Although many industry experts tout the financial and quality of care benefits of electronic health records, evidence of their benefit for emergency departments remains mixed, according to a study recently published in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“A new data network should be created to integrate the emerging research on the molecular make up of diseases with the clinical data of patients in electronic health records, the National Research Council determines in a recently published report.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal, Joplin Independent
“Throughout all of the debates and disagreements associated with healthcare reform, one idea is universal throughout the political field – each side wants to improve the quality of medicine and decrease the associated costs. Missouri is no different. One way to improve the quality of medicine is through new technology, such as electronic health records (EHR). Already in Missouri, the use of EHR is becoming more widespread through the Missouri Office of Health Information Technology (MO-HITECH) initiative.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Health Data Management readers are commenting on the American Medical Association’s decision to “vigorously work” to stop implementation of the ICD-10 code sets, and their reactions are mixed.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“A new Institute of Medicine report does a good job of calling attention to the important issue of how electronic health records affect patient safety.
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Cynthia E. Keen, AuntMinnie
“A financial study evaluating how the use of health information exchanges (HIEs) by emergency physicians affects patient management has confirmed that millions of dollars could be saved if physicians can get immediate access to patients’ medical records, according to a November 4 article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“An article published by the American Health Information and Management Systems Society suggests the infrastructure put in place for Australia’s PCEHR gives it a better chance of succeeding than the abandoned Google Health initiative, but indicates that the task of getting consumers to take it up will not be easy.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“While laptop and notebook PCs are commonplace in the medical community, the next wave of mobile adoption is well under way as providers turn to tablets, smartphones and applications to increase productivity and improve patient care, according to CompTIA’s Third Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities study.
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Laura Landro, Wall Street Journal
“Hospitals that use a computerized medical-information tool to help doctors make decisions at the point of care have better patient outcomes than those who don’t, according to a new study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
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Patricia Flatley Brennan, Project HealthDesign
“As director of Project HealthDesign, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that aims to explore how personal health records (PHRs) and patient-sourced data might improve health and health care, I applaud this proposed rule. Allowing patients direct access to lab test reports is an appropriate and much-needed step toward equipping them to access, understand and act on their own health data.
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