Jennifer Dennard, EMR and EHR
“There’s a lot of talk in the healthcare industry right now about bringing health management tools to the consumer. Whether it’s apps for your iPhone or iPad, games to play on your Wii, or free-standing health-and-wellness kiosks at your local pharmacy, digital applications seem to the delivery method of choice right now.
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chiscosayans, doctordoctor
“Durante la semana pasada se celebró la ITU Telecom World 2011, en la ciudad suiza de Ginebra. La UIT (Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones) es un organismo de las Naciones Unidas especializado en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación.
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Steve Gold, Guardian Professional
“The introduction of high speed broadband across the UK in recent years means that 80% of the adult population now has easy access to the internet either at home or at work. But so far, this has made surprisingly little difference to the way in which healthcare services are provided by clinicians and nursing staff.
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Althea Fung, NationalJournal
“An expansion of broadband could improve the health of rural Americans through telemedicine, electronic prescriptions, and electronic medical records, a group of experts convened by the Internet Innovation Alliance said on Thursday.
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Anthony Wong, The Australian
“As the infrastructure for the National Broadband Network rolls out across the nation, work is ramping up on the applications that will leverage the power of high-speed broadband to drive economic growth and improve our quality of life.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The American Telemedicine Assocation (ATA) sent a public letter to the FCC last week, criticizing the agency for inaction on a rural healthcare program. The letter was signed by ATA CEO Jonathan D. Linkous and addressed to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
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Dick Vinegar, Guardian Professional
“Three months ago, I was moaning that the upload speeds of “superfast” broadband quoted by BT and Virgin would still not be fast enough or cheap enough for a doctor to have a video consultation with a patient. Last week, I found out, in the unlikely setting of a committee room in the House of Commons, that I may have been unduly pessimistic.
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Susannah Fox, Pew Internet
“The internet has changed people’s relationships with information. Our data consistently show that doctors, nurses, and other health professionals continue to be the first choice for most people with health concerns, but online resources, including advice from peers, are a significant source of health information in the U.S.
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e-Health Europe
“As part of the European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe the Commission aims to provide patients secure access to digital health records by 2015.
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Nesita Kwan, NBC Chicago
“Neurologist John Wapham lives in downtown Chicago, but he can see patients anywhere in the world … from his apartment. And he does. He’s an expert in treating strokes, a specialty where minutes, perhaps even seconds, matter. And with the help of a robot and a broadband connection, he’s able to be at a patient’s bedside instantly.
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Joel White, mobihealthnews
“Over the past decade the ability of even small medical practices to access the Internet using a broadband connection has given us an entirely new set of tools to be far more efficient in the backroom record-keeping of a practice, better able to bring high-tech diagnostics and treatments to rural areas;
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Michael Spitz, Broadband for America
“Few industries are as data-intensive as healthcare, and none have a more pressing need to transfer information as accurately and instantaneously as possible. To meet these demands the field of telemedicine has evolved to handle tasks including the management of medical records, transmission of X-ray and MRI results, and remote consultations with physicians.
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Joel White, The Hill's Congress Blog
“According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Behind the Numbers report, employee health care costs are expected to rise by more than nine percent in 2011. If that projection holds for the foreseeable future, health care costs will double in about eight to nine years.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Increasingly, physicians are considering moving their practices from paper to an Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform. Many factors weigh in this trend – advances in technology making such EHR tools more usable; a higher profile (and therefore an increased awareness) of EHRs seen in trade shows and medical conferences; and government incentives put in place by the 2009 ARRA/HITECH act giving physicians up to $44,000 for “meaningful use of certified EHRs.”
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“The European Commission has set out its Digital Agenda, which includes measures to use technology to address rising healthcare costs and help member states to cope with their ageing populations.
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Sophie Curtis, eWeek Europe
“The UN telecoms agency, the ITU, has called for new action to enable half of the world’s population to gain access to broadband by 2015.
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Ira D. Singer, FierceMobileHealthcare
“The benefits of remote patient monitoring and the role that expanded broadband access will have in such monitoring was the focus of last week’s U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Committee meeting, entitled “Aging in Place: The National Broadband Plan and Bringing Health Care Technology Home.”
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Matt Cover, CNS News
“The Senate Committee on Aging last week offered a preview of the government’s future role in health care, showing how Americans will interact with doctors and other health care providers. The demonstration offers a glimpse at an overlooked effect of health care reform.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“Rural healthcare providers should be an early focus for new health IT extension centers, and future “beacon communities” will be a conduit for getting those providers better access to broadband connections, the national health IT coordinator told attendees at a recent meeting.
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Debra Berlyn, Comcast Voices
“I recently made a new friend on my social network. Like many people in the United States and around the world, she enjoys all the benefits of having a broadband connection and participating in a social network, including communicating with family and reconnecting with friends and loved ones.
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