Cloud
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cloud computing platforms have the unique challenges of patient privacy, and even more daunting, the integration of outdated legacy systems.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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8 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud
Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“With cloud-based electronic health record systems becoming more popular, providers should carefully read their vendor contracts regarding their rights and use of their patients’ data, according to American Medical News.
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3 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, Data Mining, Disaster
Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Server virtualization might have seen its heyday a few years ago in the general business world, but economics, space requirements in data centers and ease of disaster recovery are all combining to make a virtualized environment an attractive play in health care now.
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31 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Cloud, Security, Virtualization
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“A contract stating that a practice owns the patient data entered and stored on a Web-based electronic medical record may not guarantee that the practice can control how the data are used or accessed.
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30 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, Data Mining, Disaster, Encryption, Legal, Ownership
James Whitemore, mHIMSS
“But what does that really mean for healthcare facilities? Do you now need to abandon your current technology investment and move it to the cloud? If you don’t perform a complete rip-and-replace right now, do you risk being left behind and losing market share to more cloud-savvy competitors?
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Health Information Technology, Infrastructure
Erica Carnevale, HealthWorks Collective
“Using the cloud requires turning over responsibility for data security and privacy to a third party—and that can be a concern for healthcare providers.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Imaging, Security
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Recent research on cloud computing in healthcare suggests that many IT managers are reluctant to store critical patient-related data in a cloud-computing environment. With this in mind, one healthcare executive from information management firm Iron Mountain is prodding health CIOs to take a second look at the technology.
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19 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Data Storage
ClickCare Café
“A report by KLAS describes the dynamic changes that have brought better choices for healthcare providers. It describes the hosting relationships of the hosting providers and the relationships of serveral legacy systems. It all reads like a complicated Russian novel.
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18 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Telemedicine
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Following the example of numerous hospitals across the country, HEALTHeLINK, a regional health information exchange (HIE) in western New York, has adopted a cloud-based image storage and exchange system that enables providers to access diagnostic-quality images from multiple facilities.
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13 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Data Storage, Health Information Exchange, Image
Nicole Lewis, EBN
“Many hospitals experiencing electronic patient data growth can gain enormous benefits from cloud technology, which creates data storage efficiencies and can provide an alternative to costly storage infrastructure systems.
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13 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, Hospitals, Privacy, Security
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“From the big technology vendors–Microsoft, Google, IBM, AT&T, et al.–comes the drumbeat of exhortations: “to the cloud, to the cloud!” Some industries have already decided that that’s the way to go. But healthcare providers aren’t so sure, according to a recent report by KLAS Research.
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10 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, Meaningful Use
Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“Last year I started a series of “Do’s and Dont’s” in hospital tech by focusing on wireless technologies.
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9 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, Connectivity, document-management, Health Information Technology, HL7, Hospitals
Ana Cantu, Forbes
“Experts estimate that 195,000 people die each year from medical errors in U.S. hospitals. That’s more than the annual number of deaths as a result of AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined.
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6 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Benefits, Cloud, Medical Errors
Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“This coming year should be a very exciting time for health IT. With coming IT enabled changes in payment models, continued efforts at obtaining meaningful use incentive payments, switching to ICD10, and intense focus on health information exchange we will stay very busy. Two areas that I believe are going to show a lot of activity in the coming year are cloud services for healthcare and mobile health.
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5 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, mHealth
Rick Kam, Government Health IT
“Forget the hospital dramas on TV. Our top 10 list of this year’s trends in healthcare privacy and security has excitement to rival any show.
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23 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Data, mHealth, Personal Health Information, Privacy, Security
Dave Chase, Forbes
“In 2006, Microsoft acquired a health care computing system called Amalga, which aggregates health care data so doctors and hospitals can draw broader conclusions and patients can use it for better care.
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19 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, HealthVault, HIS, Platform, vendors
Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“Approximately half of French hospitals still use film for their imaging exams. The Ministry of Health, through its state agency, has enlisted the Orange-GE Healthcare consortium to deliver digital cloud-based PACS to France’s most populous region, the Ile de France.
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15 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | Tag(s): Cloud, GP, Hospitals, Image, PACS, SaaS
Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“The shift to cloud computing has exposed a series of worrisome dichotomies in healthcare, an industry that handles sensitive data and thus has unique privacy requirements.
Consider the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), which supports a largely mobile workforce of more than 14,000 healthcare providers.
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6 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Access, Cloud
TICBeat
“El fabricante de hardware Dell se ha involucrado en un proyecto de ayuda contra el neuroblastoma, una variedad de cáncer infantil, para el que está prestando su infraestructura de cloud computing.
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29 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Cloud, Oncology
Goedert J. Health Data Management Magazine, 19(12)
Rockford (Ill.) Orthopedic adopted electronic health records in a phased go-live during late 2006 and early 2007. The practice’s 21 physicians now do very little dictation; they document most clinical notes via EHR templates.
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28 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, Data Management
