KNMG
“Het Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport (hierna: VWS) heeft KPMG gevraagd een zogenaamde quick scan uit te voeren om inzicht te krijgen in de stand van zaken, de belangrijkste aandachtspunten en de ontwikkelingen ten aanzien van de invoering van elektronische informatie- uitwisseling/EPD’s in zes landen in Europa.
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Eileen Shepherd, Nursing Times
“The Queen’s Nursing Institute has launched a new drive to encourage district nurses to make the best use of new communications technology such as telehealth systems. A report published by the institute said some district nursing teams had already made significant changes to their practice as a result of new technology but others lagged behind.
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Peter Suderman, Reason
“It’s hard to imagine a better environment in which to test a government-run health information technology system than Britain’s National Health Service. The system is fully socialized, with a single government payer, universal enrollment, and doctors employed directly by the state. There are roughly 60 million beneficiaries, which is big enough to see if the system can scale, but perhaps not so big that it’s sure to be overwhelming.
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3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“Pulse, the UK’s leading weekly publication for UK GP’s, reports on the GPC’s warning to government on their plans to give patients online access to their full GP record by 2015 as part of its ‘Information Revolution’:
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“EMIS has re-launched its patient information website with a new look and plans for a a series of apps; including one that will let patients book an appointment from their smartphone.
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Greg Scandlen, NCPA
“The United Kingdom invested almost $20 billion in an ambitious Health Information Technology (HIT) initiative that has now been scrapped. But in the United States, the people working on our $20 billion program are confident that our investment will not be wasted.
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Ryan McBride, FierceBiotech IT
“Now that the cost of sequencing DNA is quickly plummeting toward $1,000, some scientists in the U.K. are backing a plan to put citizens’ genomic data into a national database.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“Health and social care organisations have called for a new body to be set up to develop clinical record standards to support the development of electronic health records.
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e-Health Insider
“Mobile health apps were recently described as “the single-biggest digital channel since the 90s and the web” by business and research consultancy Frost and Sullivan.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“GP leaders have said they are concerned giving patients access to their online record could risk their medical history being used against them, and may create more work for GPs having to explain medical terms to worried patients.
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Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“University of Edinburgh researchers have combined gaming with autism research in a new app, FindMe, that they say could help autistic children as young as 18 months. Touchscreens, tablets and other mobile technologies already were known to interest autistic children, but researchers say FindMe is the first game to directly engage their specific learning style, and use that engagement to build social skills.
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e-Health Insider Acute
“Conservative MP Richard Bacon has called for a halt to all Cerner Millennium deployments following appointment problems and delays at the latest trusts to go-live with the system – North Bristol and Oxford.
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Ben Rooney, Wall Street Journal
“Big Data — the ability to collect, process and interpret massive amounts of information — is one of today’s most important technological drivers. While companies see it as a way of detecting weak market signals, one of the biggest potential areas of application for society is health care.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
A report by a London-based, physician-led think tank concludes that the British National Health Service would do well to emulate the telehealth services developed by the Veterans Health Administration, the healthcare operation of the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department.
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Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT
“Getting docs engaged and on-board with telehealth may take more than education. It may take cold, hard cash. That’s the object lesson this week from a story about one segment of England’s burgeoning telehealth/remote patient monitoring program.
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Andrew Hough, The Telegraph
“The tiny edible microchip records precise details of medication programmes through a monitoring “receiver” patch attached to patients’ shoulder or arm.
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Mobile Health Live
“The UK’s NHS has published guidance that warns staff not to store sensitive patient data on tablet devices. The advice is from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the body which looks after the organisation’s IT infrastructure. According to The Guardian, the CfH has published a good practice guide that says tablet technology is less secure than traditional alternatives.
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Steve Connor, The Independent
“An American biomedical company has signed up with a British healthcare firm to sell digestible sensors, each smaller than a grain of sand, that can trigger the transmission of medical information from a patient’s body to the mobile phone of a relative or carer.
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Chris Lancelot, GP Online
“Patients will soon be able to view their medical records online, if the NHS Future Forum’s recent suggestion is adopted by the government.
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Rebecca Smith, The Telegraph
“Government advisers have said that access to GP medical records online is a vital ‘first step’ towards patients feeling that they truly own information held about them.
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