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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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“This is a story of a non-medical person getting it in gear when she finds herself in need, and what happens when she does.
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Tuijn CJ et al, PLoS ONE, 6(12)
Objective
To determine the feasibility of using mobile phones for capturing microscopy images and transferring these to a central database for assessment, feedback and educational purposes.
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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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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“GE Healthcare received Food and Drug Adminstration 510 clearance for a mobile app that lets radiologists use their smartphones and tablets to diagnose patients remotely.
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Rosa Lin, Medill Reports
“Frank has been in a car accident away from home. He’s flown to a trauma center from another facility, and surgeons are working against the clock to keep him alive. They want to perform a crucial operation, but they need medical images from his Chicago doctors.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Work continues on the building of an information network enabling patients to access, store and share their radiological images and reports, along with other information, via a personal health record.
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PRNewswire
“Patients at three major medical institutions can control the sharing of their medical images and reports with their doctors and medical providers. The RSNA Image Share network was demonstrated today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The iPhone 4S will be available on October 14, and one expert says Apple’s new release “certainly boosts its suitability for healthcare applications.” But one team of UC Davis researchers didn’t need an upgrade to transform their iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection devices.
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The Malaysian Star
“Each day, referring physicians encounter enormous tasks serving patients and making accurate diagnoses. Regardless of location, they want to be on the go and demand easy access to online patients’ images and exams. Being mobile whilst carrying out these tasks is key to a physician’s productivity and efficiency.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Last month I wrote about how handheld point of care diagnostic imaging devices will cannibalize existing, less mobile technologies. GE’s Vscan and Mobisante’s MobiUS were the prime examples.
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HealthLeaders Media
“In the nationwide, government-backed push to improve access to healthcare data, one problem persists—how best to share massive radiology imaging files. Existing solutions aren’t perfect, which is why researchers are looking for simpler and more cost-efficient ways to share images.
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Sonal Patel, HL7 Standards
“The goal of healthcare IT is to ensure all systems and applications within a healthcare system work smoothly together for organized, seamless data flow. The first step to achieving such a goal is to understand your current workflow.
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Jennifer Adaeze Anyaegbunam, KevinMD
“I’ve read a number of recent articles on social media and medical professionalism. The post in the New York Times about physicians and Facebook prompted me to think about my own presence online.
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Craig Byer, Health IT Pulse
“Microsoft HealthVault Connection Center is giving flexibility to patients accessing, organizing and storing their medical images in a personal health record (PHR).
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“The ability to transmit detailed images over long distances is fueling new telemedicine projects in Canada and China and making it possible for physicians to view images anywhere and consult regarding patients and treatments.
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Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“This is cool and makes me think of what my mother as a senior has gone through with 2nd opinions and so on. She has literally had to enlist the help of friends to pick up images and take them in hand to various doctor’s offices. Yes that is a pain and having HealthVault at a storage point is great.
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Lucy Hornstein, KevinMD
“I love computers. Really, I do. Despite my oft-repeated claims about the shortcomings of electronic medical records in their current form, I do believe that information technology has the potential to be of great help to me and other physicians in providing quality care to Americans.
Stop laughing. I really mean it.
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Felasfa Wodajo, iMedicalApps
“As previously mentioned, one use of the iPad in the OR is to bring patient imaging studies to surgery. But, how does one copy computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images from a patient’s CD ROM to the iPad? I have found a very useful method involving two terrific and freely available resources; OsiriX and Dropbox.
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Justine Cadet, CMIO
“A focus on improving patient care and decreasing healthcare costs has created a need to centralize image and data access, enabling highly mobile caregivers to make decisions nearly anywhere.
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