Janet Fang, Smart Planet
“Patients using home healthcare technologies have lower mortality rates, fewer emergency admissions, and shorter hospital stays, according to a UK Department of Health clinical study.
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Michael Downey, OpenHealthNews
“Earlier this year, OpenMRS participated once again in Google Summer of Code, a worldwide program organized by Google’s Open Source Programs Office to expose university students to the world of free and open source software, and encourage those students to become long-term contributors to projects that interest them.
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Cerner Blog
“Delivery of a newborn is one of the top diagnoses for all hospital stays in the United States, with more than 4 million births a year. Several roles manage the maternity condition across ambulatory and acute care venues over an extended period of time.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“Sure, why not?
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is pushing hard for universal adoption of standards that will increase the interoperability of health IT applications, according to Doug Fridsma, director of ONC’s Office of Standards and Interoperability.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“At the close of the third annual mHealth Summit, held Dec. 5-7 in Washington, D.C., keynote speakers highlighted the vast impact mobile phones and other mobile devices are having — and will continue to have — on healthcare delivery in the United States and worldwide.
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Jay Mehta, Express Healthcare
“Hospitals, manufacturers, doctors, insurance companies and patients—all are looking forward to efficient means to better these. Each entity faces different kind of challenges.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“In a new blog posting, Doug Fridsma, M.D., of the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT gives an update on efforts to develop standards for the exchange of health information.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“How ubiquitous is mobility in healthcare? In a new survey from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), just five of the 164 mostly hospital-based respondents said that no group of professionals in their organizations used mobile devices to access information necessary for their everyday activities.
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De Telegraaf
“Er komt toch een Elektronisch Patiëntendossier (EPD) zonder dat de overheid daarbij is betrokken. Huisartsen, ziekenhuizen, apothekers en de Nederlandse Patiënten en Consumenten Federatie zijn het alsnog eens geworden over een doorstart van het EPD.
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LeAnna J. Carey, Innovation Excellence
“Not many of us have an extra hour to spare, but one Twitter chat that you may want to squeeze into your schedule is #leadershipchat on Tuesday evenings at 8PM EST, co-hosted by author and CEO of C-Level Strategies, Inc., Lisa Petrilli and, The Connection Agent, Sam Woodruff. Last night, the subjects were – Is It Too Late For Today’s CEOs? and The Future of Leadership – with guest hosts Ted Coine (@tedcoine) and Shawn Murphy (@shawmu).
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare Finance News
“The latest in mobile health innovations – from smartphone apps to telehealth tools – might at first be considered in the vein of improving clinical outcomes. But providers, payers and vendors will quickly point out that they can save the healthcare system a lot of money, too.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Brown & Toland Physicians’ recent selection of Allscripts Community Record, powered by dbMotion, represents a big step toward realizing the IPA’s vision of providing clinical integration and connectivity for its 1,500 primary care and specialty physicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Healthcare Technology Online
“Pretend for a minute you are a nurse working with a group of doctors who help hundreds of patients with a disease like diabetes. Today, you rely on patients to come into the office with their individual charts from different doctors. Of course, there are also the important comments from patients on how they have been doing at home.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“In what its CEO billed as a development that “could finally drive global usage and adoption” of the technology, drchrono, which makes electronic health records for iPads, received meaningful use certification as an ambulatory EHR this past July.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has given the green light to a proposed arrangement that would allow providers’ medical data stored in their electronic health records to be shared for the purpose of referring patients to each other.
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Lisa Suennen, Healthcare IT News
“3600 people and I went to the mHealth Summit earlier this week in Washington, DC and, having spent the better part of 48 hours listening, I am still not sure what to make of this emerging healthcare sector.
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Marie Carniello, Technology for Doctors Online
“I recently attended two healthcare conferences, featuring speakers from across Canada and the United States. I returned to my office feeling truly excited about the future and how the delivery of healthcare is being transformed in response to advances in healthcare informatics. The speakers brought to light how a number of larger facilities (hospitals, CCACs, lab repositories, etc.) have bridged some of the interoperability and interconnectivity issues between legacy systems.
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online
“Many doctors believe that better frontline communications with patients, combined with electronic communication between clinics and hospitals, can improve health outcomes. To collect test this notion, Telus Health Solutions is running three pilot projects with EMR vendors Wolf Medical, QHR Technologies and KinLogix Medical.
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Jennifer Dennard, EMR and EHR
“I’ve had the good fortune in the past year or two to watch one of my daughters’ favorite babysitters blossom into a full-time nursing student at the University of West Georgia. Not only do my girls benefit from her great bedside manner, including an infinite amount of patience, but I get an occasional inside glimpse into the world of digital medical record keeping in the greater Atlanta area.
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