MedGadget
“Noted journalist and author David Ewing Duncan kicked off the Wednesday session of FutureMed by discussing personalized medicine and his work on the Experimental Man Project.
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DoctorsLounge
“Incentive payments to health care providers to encourage adoption of the electronic health record (EHR), instituted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), should encourage bidirectional sharing of information between EHR systems and state or regional immunization information systems (IIS), according to research published online Feb. 7 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Christina Thielst, HITExchange
“In November 2009, the topic “Top Ten reasons Why EMR/EHR Implementations are Failing” was raised on the HIMSS LinkedIn discussion group. More than two years later, the group’s technology and healthcare professionals continue debating the causes of such pitfalls and relating their experiences.
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Kellan Baker, Center for American Progress
“A growing body of knowledge, including the federal government’s Healthy People 2020 plan for progress toward a healthier America over the next decade and two reports from the Institute of Medicine, demonstrates that the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender population faces significant disparities in health status and access to health care coverage and services.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Many physicians have been reluctant to embrace electronic health record systems, with concerns about their costs, usability and impact on workflow.
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Michael Spitz, PhramaPhorum
“The rapid evolution of smartphones, app stores, and healthcare user behaviours has created an mHealth revolution, one so exponential in growth that Juniper Research has predicted 44 million app downloads by next year and 142 million by 2016, with revenue, as forecast by ABI Research, to grow from $120 million currently to over $400 million within those four years.
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Forbes
“Several large U.S. health insurance companies, including Aetna, WellPoint and UnitedHealth Group, currently offer mobile apps that help members find network providers and perform other simple functions.
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Robert Kaye, Dr. Bob's HIT Thoughts
“The federal government made a commitment to encouraging HIE through the State HIE Grant program. Federal policy has a considerable influence on the strategies the states are adopting. For example, it was made clear that The Direct Project specification should be adopted and implemented.
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Phineas Barnes, Business Insider
“This morning I headed over to BluePrint Health to hang out with some entrepreneurs. It is fair to say I have healthcare on the brain and I am going to write a little bit about why over the next few days.
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Dan Bowman, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Researchers at the University of South Carolina have developed a new program to aid in fall prevention for the elderly. It uses sensors originally designed to monitor bridge safety and an algorithm to detect vibrations associated with movement, according to an article on the school’s website.
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David Lee Scher, mHIMSS
“Much of the digital health technologies on the market today are wellness products used by the relatively younger segment of the population. Technologies that are focused on chronic diseases have found it much harder to reach their intended target audience for a variety of reasons.
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Katie Matlack, Healthcare IT News
“The iPad and the iPhone are a huge hit thanks to their ease of use, mobility and Internet connectivity. And of course the huge range of available apps has amazed all of us with just how many functions these devices can perform.
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Forbes
“Mobile devices are proving instrumental for a growing number of healthcare professionals. Smartphones and tablets are progressing beyond ways for doctors and nurses to check in during a busy day, and becoming part of the very fabric of healthcare delivery.
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EHRScope
“Cloud computing is gaining momentum across several industry sectors, but has yet to be fully embraced by health care organizations due to privacy and integration concerns. Health care companies grappling with the decision to adopt cloud computing platforms have the unique challenges of patient privacy, and even more daunting, the integration of outdated legacy systems. The health care industry is cutting edge in many aspects, but often lags in IT.
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Rip Empson, TechCrunch
“Last month, we took a look at some of the ways mobile technology is transforming the health industry.
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Ron Sterling, HITECHAnswers
“With paper exam notes, the doctor and staff record information and the note reflects what they recorded. Unfortunately, EHR based notes may not be as direct.
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Jeremy Zasowski, 3M
“What happens when clinical documentation strategies to meet Meaningful Use requirements don’t line up with an organization’s strategies to improve clinical documentation for coding and profiling?
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Chris Taylor, The Successful Workplace
“There are real challenges with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) beyond getting doctors to write things down (a feat in itself). Healthcare providers are being pushed to adopt EMR, but few are at Stage 7, shown at right.
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Harold Hambrose, Electronic Ink
“There’s no question about it—electronic medical records have become a growth industry. And I’m worried.
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Gabriel Perna, Healthcare Informatics
“In the world of medical research, the emergence of the electronic medical record (EMR) in hospitals is a game-changer, giving researchers the opportunity to use large, previously unobtainable data sets for their studies. You don’t have to tell that to Atul Butte, M.D., director for the Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (Palo Alto, Calif.) and associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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