Gary Palgon, Healthcare IT News
“The day is rapidly coming when healthcare providers across the country will be able to share information about patients with a few clicks of a mouse.
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Masys DR et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2011
The era of “Personalized Medicine,” guided by individual molecular variation in DNA, RNA, expressed proteins and other forms of high volume molecular data brings new requirements and challenges to the design and implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
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e-Health-com News
“Der Schweizerische Apothekerverband pharmaSuisse, das Schweizer Zentrum für Telemedizin MEDGATE und der Kranken- und Unfallversicherer Helsana starten ein Pilotprojekt mit einem zukunftsweisenden Versorgungsmodell. Unter dem Namen netCare werden ab April 2012 rund 200 Apotheken ihre Leistungspalette mit neuartigen telemedizinischen Leistungen ergänzen.
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Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider Acute
“Two think-tanks that are well-known for influencing government policy have called for a major investment in IT to promote integrated care.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“Technology is increasingly a top management concern, and is no longer confined to clinical and technical decision making. Themes emerging on our 2012 list reflect ongoing impacts of health-care reform initiatives and new technology developments that emphasize patient-centered care,”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“As we head into 2012, the “hot topic” in EHR / Health IT circles is connectivity. A doctor’s EHR in the office is supposed to be able to connect with outside sources of patient data – reference laboratories, other clinicians using the same or different EHRs, immunization and public health registries, and the like.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Brown & Toland Physicians’ recent selection of Allscripts Community Record, powered by dbMotion, represents a big step toward realizing the IPA’s vision of providing clinical integration and connectivity for its 1,500 primary care and specialty physicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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La bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“He dedicado alguna de mis últimas entradas a comentar el derroche de recursos (personas, tiempo y dinero) que en no pocas ocasiones se comete para construir verdaderos esperpentos bajo el amparo de un concepto mal entendido: el 2.0 (concepto ya muy trillado y que empieza a cansar, así que a partir de ahora lo llamaré “web colaborativa“, ¿os parece?).
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“HIMSS Analytics has released a research report, sponsored by medical device technology company Capsule, that examines the evolving roles of chief medical information officers and chief nursing officers and how they view medical device integration with electronic medical records.
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Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“While an “integrated” system has the attraction of apparent simplicity, attempts to improve quality and efficiency are best made sequentially because each can have unanticipated ripple effects on the entire system. The full effect of each change must be assessed before moving on to the next. In practice it is easier and quicker to have a dozen component suppliers each working in parallel to improve their quality and efficiency.
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Two of the most important developments in ambulatory practice over the past 20 years are the advent of patient and relationship-centered care (PRCC) and electronic health records (EHRs). However, there is a large gap in knowledge and practice between PRCC and EHR use. We believe the integration of PRCC with EHRs has the potential to personalize care, improve population-based care, and increase patient involvement.
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Katharine Gammon, Technology Review
“A social network that doctors can prescribe to their patients: that’s the idea behind a new San Diego startup called Wellaho. The company creates software to manage and support patients after they leave the hospital by bringing together different parts of a patient’s support system.
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Simon James, Pulse+IT
“Electronic medical records, document scanning, email, secure messaging and computer-based faxing have all served to put downward pressure on the amount of paper modern medical practices have to handle on a day to day basis.
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Carrie Vaughan, HealthLeaders Media
“The number of people using mobile technology is on the rise. In 2008, the number of smartphone subscribers was 15 million. That number almost doubled in 2009, reaching 26 million, and is expected to grow to roughly 142 million in 2011, according to Nielsen Mobile, which tracks wireless trends.
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David Hastoglis, Healthcare IT Solutions
“As we mentioned in an earlier post about Tracking a Single Patient in a Connected Healthcare Environment, the key to making an integrated healthcare system work is identifying and managing a unique patient identifier that can be used to connect one patient across a diverse network of care providers.
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Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“Personal health records (PHRs) can be beneficial in improving interactions with patients, according to interviews with 10 family physicians conducted by researchers at the University of Western Ontario.
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Ano Lobb, EHR Bloggers
“In a recent issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, Don Berwick of CMS and Carolyn Clancy of AHRQ discuss how the challenges of translating evidenced-based findings into practice can stand in the way of improving health care safety and quality. Perhaps more than in any other field, the social, physical, environmental and cultural context within which medicine is practiced can have a huge impact on outcomes.
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EMR Daily News
“Alcatel-Lucent’s TeleHealth Manager is a remote patient monitoring service that leverages the mobile networks of service providers to improve health care. It allows patients and health care professionals to monitor and manage chronic health issues, such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.
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Healthcare IT News
“A new KLAS report finds that providers are looking for vendors that offer smooth integration between a radiology information system (RIS) and a picture archiving and communication system (PACS). To achieve that integration, some providers are willing to sacrifice functionality.
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Ralf Gordon Jahns, research2guidance
“Before the smartphone app market brought new life to the mHealth market mHealth service providers struggled to scale their solutions. Most of them never made it out of the trial stage. Some of them were just too basic, such as simple pill reminders running on SMS as the primary delivery technology.
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