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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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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Sheryl Cash, amednews
“Like many practices, Women’s Wellness Place is continually upgrading its technology to better serve and empower providers and patients.
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Angela Hart, The Health Care Blog
“The San Francisco Department of Public Health says it is ahead of the curve in rolling out databases that keep tabs on tens of thousands of patients across a citywide network of clinics and hospitals. The rollout is needed not just to make a local form of “universal health care” work, but also to meet a 2014 deadline under national health reform.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“While healthcare executive applaud the benefits that health information exchanges (HIEs) can provide–such as improving the quality of clinical reporting and the coordination of care among physicians–the high costs of participating in an HIE is still an impediment, according to a study from healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners.
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Angela Petty, The Washington Post
“With money tight, congressional appropriators rarely insist that agencies spend money. Yet the omnibus spending bill passed Dec. 17 approved $100 million for a joint Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs effort to develop digital medical records — even though they missed deadlines for requesting the money.
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Anne Steciw, Health IT Pulse
“As the federal government continues to push EHR adoption, many commercial payers are also testing the water, and finding it to be pretty comfortable. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) just announced the results of a three-year pilot program designed to increase the use of EHRs and improve health care delivery.
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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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Craig Byer, Health IT Pulse
“Whether physician practices will be able to join health information exchanges once federal and state grants run out is a key issue given the high costs of running HIEs.
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Miles Ellenby, Oregon Live
“California recently passed legislation expanding the use of telemedicine that has the potential to save the state’s Medicaid program several hundred million dollars. These impressive savings could be achieved by using two-way audio-video technology for home monitoring of heart failure and diabetes patients, according to an analysis done for the Center for Connected Health Policy in Sacramento.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“The big question mark about health information exchanges is whether they’ll be able to develop sustainable business models that allow them to survive after federal and state grants run out. Their long-term viability depends on financial support from healthcare providers, who must be convinced that HIEs are worth the money.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“I’ve written about the increasing trend to Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) to work and the accountability it brings to the CIO.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“The proposed rule, released Sept. 12, would modify HIPAA and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988 in order to lift rules preventing patients from obtaining their test results without the consent of their health care provider.
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René Schoemaker, WebWereld
“Een meerderheid van de Tweede Kamer wil een doorstart van het Elektronisch Patiëntendossier (EPD), maar als er geen 10 miljoen euro op tafel komt, gaat per 1 januari de stekker er toch uit.
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Doolittle GC et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 17(9)
The teleoncology practice based at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) in Kansas City, Kansas, is one of the longest running practices of its kind worldwide. The practice began in 1995 and connected an oncologist at KUMC with a rural medical center in Hays, Kansas. Fifteen years later, the practice continues to thrive at Hays Medical Center and has also expanded to include two additional sites within the state-the Northeast Kansas Center for Health and Wellness in Horton and Goodland Regional Medical Center in Goodland-that offer regularly scheduled teleoncology clinics. While the KUMC practice has witnessed an expansion in service sites throughout its history, the practice has seen a significant decrease in the costs associated with providing such services since its inception.
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Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“It’s more or less accepted that human behavior is so complex that any attempt to regulate it is bound to have some unintended consequences. By consequence, I mean a negative or undesirable outcome; there is generally little objection to the other kind of consequence, a serendipitous positive result.
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Jim Doyle, STLtoday
“Despite new government subsidies, doctors’ offices are struggling to fulfill a federal mandate to switch to electronic medical records.
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Paul Lynch, Tory McJunkin, Randy Braunm, Pain Medicine News
“My IT [information technology] manager has submitted several proposals for purchasing new software and hardware to supplement our current systems. All of our systems are working now, so I can’t help but think most of these updates are unnecessary.
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Nestor E. Arellano, itbusiness.ca
“Don’t hold your breath over Canadian doctors fully adopting an electronic medical record (EMR) system any time soon.
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