Anne Steciw, Health IT Pulse
“As the federal government continues to push EHR adoption, many commercial payers are also testing the water, and finding it to be pretty comfortable. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) just announced the results of a three-year pilot program designed to increase the use of EHRs and improve health care delivery.
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Kevin Pho, KevinMD
“Imagine that your neurosurgeon, during surgery, was talking on his cellphone using a headset.
Unthinkable?
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Ranit Mishori, The Washington Post
“It’s a return trip nobody wants to take: You are discharged from the hospital only to find yourself re-admitted a few days later.
More and more people are finding themselves in this revolving door — at a cost to both hospitals and patients.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Mobile adoption just keeps marching forward, but someone had best solve the payment issue sooner rather than later.
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“With the recent public statement from the Clinical Information Modelling Initiative (CIMI) my cynical heart feels a little flutter of excitement. Maybe, just maybe, we are on the brink of a significant disruption in eHealth.
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Michael Owen, The Australian
“While South Australia was busy rolling out its advanced e-health plan, other states were still planning their own different systems – raising doubts about a national strategy to ultimately link electronic records across all hospitals in every jurisdiction.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Lack of patient interest in managing their own care and in electronic health records have long been problematic. But a new project may help to spark patient engagement and improve health.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The next stage in the transition to ICD-10 is just around the corner. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a fundamental coding system used in billing, as well as keeping lists of diagnoses in Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
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Matt Richtel, The New York Times
“Hospitals and doctors’ offices, hoping to curb medical error, have invested heavily to put computers, smartphones and other devices into the hands of medical staff for instant access to patient data, drug information and case studies.
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Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“Heather Haugen, director of Health Information Technology CLSC Program at University of Colorado, who spoke during this year’s HIMSS 2011 conference, pointed out then that physicians need to first be engaged in the buying process.
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Dennis Giokas, Infoway Connects
“Interoperability. It’s a term we use a lot when we talk about electronic health records (EHRs), but what does it really mean?
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David Lee Scher, KevinMD
“The term globalization loosely refers to the increasing unification of order. It has been traditionally applied to the economic sector. As the world is progressively intertwined from financial and cultural perspectives, it is not surprising that it is occurring in the medical arena.
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Tuijn CJ et al, PLoS ONE, 6(12)
Objective
To determine the feasibility of using mobile phones for capturing microscopy images and transferring these to a central database for assessment, feedback and educational purposes.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“It’s probably not too early to get your physicians involved in your ICD-10 transition.
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“Approximately half of French hospitals still use film for their imaging exams. The Ministry of Health, through its state agency, has enlisted the Orange-GE Healthcare consortium to deliver digital cloud-based PACS to France’s most populous region, the Ile de France.
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HealthTechWire
“IHE-Europe, a non-profit association dedicated to interoperability in healthcare, has launched a new organisation, IHE-Services, to offer professional interoperability testing services for health systems and projects.
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Kathleen Sebelius, NCI Cancer Bulletin
“Since I was here in 2009, few fields have undergone such rapid change as mHealth. Virtually every American today has a cell phone. Some of us have to carry two. And every year, our phones have more features and computing power. This year, for the first time ever, smart phones accounted for more than half of all phone sales in the US.
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Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Hospital Review
“Workflows can make or break a health IT initiative at hospitals and health systems because they dictate the difficulty of adoption of new technology. The less congruent an HIT system is with a physician’s workflow, the less likely the physician is to use it.
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Chelsea Conaboy, Boston Globe
“Despite the challenge of getting new systems off the ground, it’s clear that electronic health records are a powerful tool. They could save the American health care system billions of dollars by reducing unnecessary tests.
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Categorynet
“Lancée par deux professionnels de santé expérimentés (un médecin généraliste ancien régulateur du centre 15 et un directeur d’Établissements Sanitaires et Médicaux Sociaux), FRANCE MEDECIN est reconnue comme entreprise innovante par Oséo.
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