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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Elizabeth Weingarten, Slate
“Eric Topol wants to digitize you. No, he doesn’t want to transform your body into a pixelated hologram or morph your visage into a virtual avatar.
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Janine Budding, Medicalfacts
“Denen selecteren InterSystems HealthShare voor landelijke uitwisseling zorginformatie InterSystems Corporation, mondiaal toonaangevend in software voor de zorgsector, maakt bekend dat InterSystems HealthShare™ is gekozen als systeem waarmee zorginstellingen in Denemarken gegevens gaan uitwisselen via een zogeheten ’health information exchange’ (HIE).
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Ricky Y. Choi, SFGate
“These days my physician colleagues and I are up to our necks in a health technology revolution. To be honest, its not as captivating asPinterest or socially-engaging as a Google Huddle but to be sure your life will depend on it. The revolution ushered in by electronic health record (EHR) is less about the technology than the widespread impact it will have on patient care.
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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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Chad Johnson, Healthcare IT News
“With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability projects, there is a tremendous amount of work going on in Health IT.
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Chad Johnson, Healthcare IT News
“With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability projects, there is a tremendous amount of work going on in Health IT.
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Thomas Goetz, Wired
“Medicine has certainly progressed in the past 50 years, but the day when tricorders diagnose every ailment instantly and treatments are tailored to our DNA seems as far off as ever. Eric Topol is trying to bridge that gap.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“I first have to point out that this short article is being written in late January and while, as we slipped off into the ‘silly season’ last year, we might have been forgiven for thinking the e-Health path for 2012 has been clearly marked, it seems, somehow that six short weeks have changed everything.
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Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“The i2 Initiative is a bold new effort to spur innovations in health IT. The program utilizes prizes and challenges to facilitate innovation and obtain solutions to intractable health IT problems.
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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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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“It’s the start of a new benefits year for most employers, and workers are only beginning to tap into their companies’ offering of 2012 healthcare coverage. However, they can expect to face rising healthcare costs and be asked to pay larger co-pays and deductibles than ever if recent years are any indication.
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Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News
“With the slow demise of paper records and the rise of electronic platforms, the opportunity for patients to take hold of their healthcare has never been stronger.
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TECchannel
“Virtualisierung und die Service-basierte Bereitstellung von IT-Anwendungen und Storage bilden auch im Gesundheitswesen die IT-Basistechnologien. Mit diesen erreicht man funktionale, operative und geschäftliche Effizienz.
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Beatriz Roselló, Diario Médico
“El médico de primaria se enfrenta con varias dificultades en la consulta, entre ellas, llegar a un diagnóstico en poco tiempo y no siempre con toda la información necesaria.
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Jennifer Dennard, Healthcare IT News
“The phrase “Technology Saves Lives” seems pretty straightforward when you first read it. “Well, yes,” you might say. “Technology sure does save lives!” But when you read more than 400 real-life stories about just how technology does that, the phrase takes on a whole new level of importance.
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Michael Martineau, Technology for Doctors Online
“My November commentary mused about the need for the health IT community to do a better job at selling eHealth to the public at large, and to the healthcare providers who will use it. Seems I’m not the only person having similar thoughts.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“U.S. physicians are less likely than doctors in other countries to think that healthcare IT can improve diagnostic decisions, according to a survey of 3,700 doctors in eight countries.
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ePractice EU
“The eHealth Network seeks to bring together the national authorities responsible for eHealth on a voluntary basis to work on common orientations for eHealth. The aim is to ensure EU-wide interoperability of electronic health systems and wider use of eHealth.
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Janet Fang, Smartplanet
“Cellphones display your vital signs and take ultrasound images of your heart. Genetic scans of malignant cells match your cancer to the most effective treatment. Virtual house calls and remote monitoring could replace doctor visits and even hospitalizations… medicine is on the verge of an overhaul.
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