Bob Brewin, NextGov
“The Veterans Affairs Department will start to move data center operations that support its Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) electronic health records to data centers operated by the Defense Information Systems Agency in March.
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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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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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Lisa Phifer, SearchHealthIT
“Mobility can improve the quality and cost of health care, from care-giver access to electronic health record (EHR) systems to more accurate order fulfillment and asset tracking. But it is imperative that health care organizations safeguard mobile devices and the sensitive regulated data they may carry. Here we explore mobile security best practices for the smartphones and tablets used by health care professionals.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Nearly half of consumers have viewed or would be interested in seeing their electronic health records (EHRs), according to a new survey by Manhattan Research. But so far, that interest has not translated into a leap in the use of personal health record (PHR) applications to store that data.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“Health care is in the process of getting itself computerized. Fashionably late to the party, health care is making a big entrance into the information age, because health care is well positioned to become a big player in the ongoing Big Data game. In case you haven’t noticed computerized health care, which used to be the realm of obscure and mostly small companies, is now attracting interest from household names such as IBM, Google, AT&T, Verizon and Microsoft, just to name a few.
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John Andrews, Healthcare IT News
“With PACS and other diagnostic imaging files quickly diminishing healthcare data storage capacities, providers are scrambling to find a much larger repository to handle their needs. More and more, that means gravitating toward the cloud, IT vendors say.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“A free service made available Sept. 26 by MediConnect Global gives healthcare providers the ability to host, access and exchange medical records in a cloud-based repository called the National Secured Archive (NSA).
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Brien M. Posey, SearchHealthIT
“The health care industry relies on data. Physicians need data to make the proper diagnosis, and they increasingly need to share data with other providers. One way of making this data available to those who need it is to store it in the cloud.
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HIS
“We live in a volatile and constantly changing world. Disasters, of the natural variety as well as man-made, seem to occur with an ever increasing frequency. Hurricanes, floods, fires and earthquakes have all held a prominent position within the landscape of the world’s events recently.
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George Crump, InformationWeek
“Cloud storage has a role to play in many organizations. It can be used as part of the backup and archive processes and in some cases even used for primary storage. There are specific enterprise vertical markets however where cloud storage can be especially beneficial.
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Sjaak Nouwt, KNMG
“Over de perikelen rond het Elektronisch Patiënten Dossier (EPD) blijf ik me verwonderen. Zo was daar de opmerkelijke uitspraak van een kritisch Kamerlid tijdens een debat over het EPD: “Zelf wil ik niet in de landelijke registratie. Als ik bij de huisarts kom, vraagt die mij heel simpel: mag ik de apotheek het receptje mailen of wilt u het zelf brengen? Op dat moment geef ik toestemming; zo kan het ook.”
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John Hilvert, itNews
“Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has proposed laws around e-health records in Australia that would tighten use and disclosure of data and penalise any privacy breaches.
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Stan Gibson, SearchHealthIT
“As the HITECH Act points out, the main benefits of electronic health record (EHR) adoption for individual health care organizations are improved efficiency and care quality, as well as reduced health care costs. The real kicker, though, is when records are linked through health information exchange (HIE).
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Jim Beame, Anarchiel.com
“Het idee van een ‘centrale database’ is achterhaald. Dit ouderwetse idee stamt uit de tijd van papieren dossiers. Standaardisering en koppeling zijn de toverwoorden. Door de koppelbaarheid en uitwisselingsmogelijkheden van EPD’s met het persoonscontrolenummer (BSN) dat wereldwijd als toegangssleutel wordt gebruikt, is centralisering niet noodzakelijk omdat alle databases tezamen een metadatabase vormen en in de praktijk al als centrale database fungeren.
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Elizabeth Gardner, HDM Breaking News
“With meaningful use taking up all the top slots on the national EHR to-do list, record retention and preservation don’t even make the first page.
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Meaningful HIT News with Neil Versel
“You may have heard news of Google essentially putting its Google Health PHR platform in cold storage. Whether it’s true or not, the “untethered” PHR—one not connected to a health system’s EHR—has been a non-starter for years. I’ve been particularly critical of the undeserved attention Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault have received, when many smaller companies have been working on PHRs for much longer.
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Jay Mehta, Express Healthcare
“Today, the definition of healthcare for hospitals has become wider than just ‘providing treatment’ to patients. Owing to better education, internet and globalisation, the patient has become more informed and looks forward to more from hospitals – such as smoother registration process, better nursing, pre-operative orientation, post-operative care, dependable administrative support, etc.
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Gardner E. Health Data Management Magazine, 19(6)
With meaningful use taking up all the top slots on the national EHR to-do list, record retention and preservation don’t even make the first page: Data storage is so cheap, so the popular thinking seems to be, we’ll just keep everything and worry about it later. But Milton Corn, M.D., deputy director for research and education at the National Library of Medicine, thinks we should worry about it now.
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“A lot of people are intrigued with using “cloud” applications and storage for personal health data. This week we’re seeing what I think is the final nail in the coffin of “cloud only” for anything important. You gotta have offline backups: two huge cloud vendors – Amazon and now Google – have demonstrated that even they can go down, leaving their users absolutely powerless.
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