Don Fluckinger, Health IT Pulse
“This time, House, M.D. fans, it was lupus. The article “Evidence-Based Medicine in the EMR Era” published in the Nov. 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine might have read like a House television script, but it was a real-life glimpse of what the most optimistic health IT advocates are hoping will become commonplace in U.S. health care: Mining EHR data to arrive at treatment decisions.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Patients can benefit by getting a variety of healthcare information electronically–as these seven options prove.
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Apiscam
“La historia clínica es una herramienta fundamental para la práctica de la medicina. Sin embargo, pese a los intentos de que este documento evolucione y pase a ser única y electrónica, los modelos con los que se trabaja actualmente no dejan de ser reproducciones de su versión en papel.
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Roni Zeiger, e-patients.net
“Three months ago, at the age of 40, I had a small bleed in my brain. My story is no more special than any of your stories, but I learned something important from it and I want to share it with you. I learned firsthand the difference between what a patient tells his doctors and what he tells his loved ones, and why it matters.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“More than 50 percent of physicians use a smartphone for work purposes, according to a new study by IT industry association CompTIA. CompTIA’s “Third Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities” study consisted of online surveys of 350 doctors, dentists and other healthcare providers or administrators, along with executives at 400 IT firms that work in healthcare IT.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Clinicians are so in love with their mobile devices that these gadgets may soon become the preferred computing devices in healthcare, eventually replacing desktops, cart-bound workstations, and other traditional hardware. But that love affair comes at a price.
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Nick Rockel, Globe and Mail
“For Ross Mitchell, powerful medical apps that live in your iPhone are just one part of a larger revolution. Dr. Mitchell recently moved from the University of Calgary to the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., to become a senior associate consultant in diagnostic radiology.
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Mihir Patel, MedHealthWorld
“Telemedicine was conceived early in the space program to help monitor astronauts’ vital signs. Like many National Aeronautics and Space Administration innovations, it has spun off and taken on a life of its own, spurred in large part by the growth in technological innovation in health and communications.
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“Since the idea behind emergency medicine and critical care is to respond quickly, the research team wanted to find out if telemedicine technology was helping and what barriers were impeding clinicians.
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La bitácora de Fran Sánchez Laguna
“Del interesantísimo debate que se está generando en la entrada “La historia clínica en los tiempos de la sanidad híbrida“, quiero compartir con vosotros un vídeo que nos muestra la HCE vasca que enlazó Alfredo Alday (@alfrealday).
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Radiologists are extremely dependent on information technology staff, but I.T. isn’t part of the radiology department–which means radiologists don’t have control over I.T., says Paul Nagy, director of quality in the department of radiology and an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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Richard D. Marks, HIMSS News
“The de-Googlization of digital personal health records – Google’s decision to terminate Google Health and abandon the PHR field – offers two lessons with consequences. First, not everything can be Googlized. Second, building digital health record systems consumers will accept is very difficult.
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René Schoemaker, WebWereld
“Een meerderheid van de Tweede Kamer wil een doorstart van het Elektronisch Patiëntendossier (EPD), maar als er geen 10 miljoen euro op tafel komt, gaat per 1 januari de stekker er toch uit.
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Rogove HJ et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 2011
Context:
The present study of current telemedicine users is a unique attempt to understand the barriers and motivational factors related to the utilization of telemedicine.
Objective:
A survey of emergency and critical care remote presence telemedicine users was conducted to determine the factors that motivate and the barriers that impede the acceptance and maintenance of a robotic telemedicine (RTM) program.
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Pim van der Beek, Computable
“Een Kamermeerderheid wil het landelijk schakelpunt (lsp) behouden. In een motie roepen CDA, PvdA en VVD CDA-minister Schippers van Volksgezonheid op om alles in het werk te stellen om de infrastructuur achter het elektronisch patiëntendossier (epd) te behouden.
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Ben Parfitt, FrontlineSMS
“Africa has undergone a mobile revolution, and it is spreading. The health sector is capitalizing on the resulting plethora of new opportunities. Doctors, nurses, health workers and pharmacists often rely on their mobile phones, using them as a reference tool, accessing information otherwise unavailable to them.
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Satish Misra, iMedicalApps
“Medical training is currently undergoing a dramatic change. Duty hour reforms, increasing financial and regulatory demands, and a healthcare system at the center of a political battle are among the extraordinary pressures being exerted on the traditional training model.
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Jeff Byers, CMIO
“The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates voted today to work vigorously to stop implementation of ICD-10, a coding set that has about 69,000 codes and will replace the 14,000 ICD-9 diagnosis codes currently in use.
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David Talbot, Technology Review
“A new study has found that a medical-information exchange system that is considered a model for health-care reform efforts saved significant amounts of money and led to better care for patients—including a woman who probably would have died without the system.
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Trevor Lewis, HL7 Standards
“The promise of mHealth is quite attractive to many health program implementers, but few know how to actually implement it. That’s why, during the final day of the 2011 Social Franchising for Health Conference in Mombasa, Pam Riley of the SHOPS Project clearly laid out 7 steps for implementing a mass-SMS mHealth program
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