e-Health-com News
“Eine Woche nach dem Start der von deutschstämmigen Ärzten in London betriebenen Online-Praxis DrEd.com gibt es erste Zahlen zur Publikumsresonanz. Die sind durchaus beachtlich. DrEd.com bietet eine kostenlose Beratung bei bestimmten, genau festgelegten Indikationen an, darunter erektile Dysfunktion, vorzeitiger Samenerguss, Kontrazeption, arterielle Hypertonie und sexuell übertragbare Erkrankungen. W
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“Healthcare providers shouldn’t underestimate the testing phase of their ICD-10 transition.
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Cameron Peebles, Digital Marketing Blog
“To develop appropriate policies, hospital leaders will need to determine how mobile devices will be used and what protections will be necessary. If hospitals allow employee-owned mobile devices, one concern is the possible transfer of hospital data to the employee’s home. If an employee plugs an iPod or iPad with hospital data into a personal computer, the system will synch and backup the data on the home computer, Mr. Williams says. One way to prevent sensitive information leaving the organization is to establish automatic controls over access to data.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Speculation throughout 2011 that federal policymakers would delay stage 2 of the Electronic Health Records Incentive Program ended in a pair of formal announcements by officials, who said providers would have an extra year to prepare for the next onslaught of meaningful use criteria.
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KGO
“Using wireless technology to improve health outcomes was the focus for the annual mHealth summit, which took place last week at National Harbor in Washington, D.C.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“Health games have the difficult task ahead of them to be fun, yet taken seriously by physicians, according to a panel held at the mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C. last week.
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Luke Gale, CMIO
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2011 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), the EHR adoption rate for Rhode Island, at 45 percent, is classified as significantly lower among the total U.S. office-based physicians’ adoption rate of 57 percent.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“One of the most powerful ways to emphasize the importance of safeguarding patient privacy is to take serious disciplinary action against those guilty of privacy violations.
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Kristine Martin Anderson, Government Health IT
“Even among very knowledgeable people, the concept of health information technology is often equated with its most familiar element, “electronic health records.” Adoption of electronic health records are a critical first step to realizing the transformational power of Health IT – but getting out of paper enables even greater HIT capabilities.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“As hospitals and practices form accountable care organizations, they will accelerate their efforts to build healthcare information exchanges and novel analytics that support community-wide lifetime care rather than siloed episodic care,
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“A huge new study by the Department of Health into the potential benefits of Telemedicine has had some outstanding early results!
Most notably the early indications show that if used correctly telehealth can deliver a a 45% reduction in mortality rates.
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Kent Bottles, KevinMD
“Whether you call it Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, or e-Health 2.0, the Internet is changing medicine in ways that challenge the status quo. This article explores how a group of amateurs who call themselves “health hackers” and “citizen scientists” are trying to use the Internet to connect with other patients, run experiments, and conduct clinical trials on their own diseases.
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Acta Sanitaria
“Este estudio, de dos años de duración, fue realizado en tres lugares diferentes del Reino Unido y financiado por el Departamento de Salud. Conocido como WSD, busca proporcionar una base científica para la adopción de las tecnologías de telemonitorización, lo que podría aliviar la creciente carga financiera de la atención hospitalaria a enfermos crónicos.
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chiscosayans, doctordoctores
“Tradicionalmente se define la telemedicina como el uso de las tecnologías de la comunicación como medio para el suministro de servicios médicos entre lugares distantes entre si. Ya desde los años 60 podíamos asistir a esbozos de lo que ahora es una auténtica rama de la medicina. El gran salto tecnológico que se ha producido en materia de telecomunicaciones, sobre todo en la última década, ha promovido un desarrollo de los servicios de telemedicina, del que aún sólo hemos visto el principio.
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AnneryanHeatwole, MobileActive.org
“We recently attended the mHealth Summit 2011 to learn more about the latest developments in the mobile health field. The conference brought together developers, practitioners, NGOs, representatives from corporate industries, and government officials to discuss the current state and future of mobile health.
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Department of Health
“The Whole System Demonstrator programme was set up by the Department of Health to show just what telehealth and telecare is capable of.
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Meskó B, Dubecz A. Orvosi Hetilap, 148(44)
The importance of the internet and some new generation services of the web (so-called web 2.0) is exponentially growing. As web 2.0 is based on collaboration, feedback and communities, it can ease the work of physicians. The authors give a short overview of the web 2.0 tools created for physicians.
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Paris France will be the world capital for Web 2.0 and Social Media in Health and Medicine, when the 2nd edition of Doctors 2.0TM and You convenes on May 23-24, 2012, at the International Residence situated in the elegant Cité Universitaire campus. Doctors 2.0TM & You will shed light on strategic issues for all of Health Care. The exciting program will examine: how doctors and other professionals, patients, hospitals, government, pharma, and payers use Social Media, mobile apps, and Web 2.0 tools to connect and the best practices that emerge for each.
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David M. Mokotoff, Physicians Practice
“Suppose you walked up to a car rental counter, and instead of all your information going into a computer, you or the rental agent wrote it down, then stuck it in a paper folder. You likely would move down the line to the next rental company.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
