Halamka JD. AHRQ, 2011
The Obama Administration is spending $27 billion dollars to accelerate the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) in pursuit of three policy goals: enhanced safety, improved quality, and increased efficiency. However, despite some evidence that electronic health records can achieve these goals, implementation can introduce new errors, new risks, and new challenges.
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Cameron Peebles, Digital Marketing Blog
“To develop appropriate policies, hospital leaders will need to determine how mobile devices will be used and what protections will be necessary. If hospitals allow employee-owned mobile devices, one concern is the possible transfer of hospital data to the employee’s home. If an employee plugs an iPod or iPad with hospital data into a personal computer, the system will synch and backup the data on the home computer, Mr. Williams says. One way to prevent sensitive information leaving the organization is to establish automatic controls over access to data.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“At the close of the third annual mHealth Summit, held Dec. 5-7 in Washington, D.C., keynote speakers highlighted the vast impact mobile phones and other mobile devices are having — and will continue to have — on healthcare delivery in the United States and worldwide.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Clinicians are so in love with their mobile devices that these gadgets may soon become the preferred computing devices in healthcare, eventually replacing desktops, cart-bound workstations, and other traditional hardware. But that love affair comes at a price.
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The Times of India
“Gujarat health minister Jaynarayan Vyas enhanced the state’s healthcare infrastructure by adding 24 new state-of-the-art ambulances – ICU on Wheels – to government hospitals’ resources on Thursday.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Roger Baker, CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, outlines the department’s mobile device security strategy, providing details on the rollout of iPhones and iPads.
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Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News
“It’s easy to get caught up in all the issues associated with new health IT. From non-effective EMRs to mandated practices that cause stress and headaches, the past few years have been tough.
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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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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Whatever the objections to mobility have been in the past, they are falling away as everything wireless becomes more powerful, more affordable and more user-friendly.”
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Dr. Brigitte Piniewski is convinced that mobile and wireless technologies can bring the kinds of improvements in population health that policymakers can only dream of. “I really think that’s where the vision is at,” she says.
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Matthew Arnold, MM&M
“For pharmas and their agencies, it’s what the agency isn’t interested in that’s more significant. Exempted from the draft guidance were mobile apps that are digital versions of medical textbooks or reference materials but do not contain patient-specific info;
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“According to the FDA’s mobile medical app draft regulatory guidelines, which it made public this morning, there are a handful of different types of health and medical apps that the agency specifically said would not be regulated under the proposed guidelines.
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Steven Overly, The Washington Post
“The host of health-related applications that are turning smartphones and wireless tablets into personal nutritionists, gym buddies and physicians are now catching the eye of federal regulators.
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Anne Steciw, HealthITExchange
“One important goal of community health is to improve the overall quality of life for patients. Everyday behaviors of patients — such as social interaction and physical activity — can be indicative of overall health and predictive of future health problems. But collecting such data through periodic surveys or self-reports can be problematic. Here’s where mobile sensing technology could help.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“As more doctors begin using their personal mobile devices to aid patient care, hospitals must be prepared to manage them in order to ensure security and privacy, according to one expert.
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Lauren DeLisa Coleman, Business Insider
“Google may have just killed off one of its most ambitious projects to date, Google Health (which essentially sought to remake healthcare delivery for the Web age); but this action is far from indicative of a quiet but growing bold, new digital transformation-of-sorts taking place within the healthcare industry.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“I just caught an interesting piece in on the use of plain old, unsexy carts in hospitals — one whose conclusions which may surprise you a bit. The piece argues that since hospitals are comfortable using carts to haul around full-sized equipment, they may be slower than expected to adopt hot portable devices in care delivery.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Sean Nolan, the chief architect of the Microsoft Health Solutions Group announced last week that Microsoft’s PHR platform HealthVault has broken free from the desktop and gone mobile.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Health professionals are go-to sources for medical diagnoses, information about prescription drugs and alternative treatments, and recommendations for doctors and hospitals. On the other hand, health information seekers turn to fellow patients, friends and family for emotional support in dealing with health issues, and quick remedies for everyday issues.
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Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“Susannah Fox, Associate Director at Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has published a new report “The Social Life of Health Information, 2011,” which is an update on her excellent “The Social Life of Health Information, 2009.” This latest report is even better and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the intersection of healthcare and technology. This new report posits that online conversation about health is being driven forward by two forces: 1) the availability of social tools and 2) the motivation, especially among people living with chronic conditions, to connect with each other.
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