Pieter Streicher, TechLeader
“As we’ve started to see in South Africa and across the rest of the continent, the potential for mobile-enabled healthcare is enormous. Evidence from the GSMA Mobile Health Summit held in Cape Town at the start of June shows that mobile operators are currently leading the pack in this space.
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Leonard Kish, opensource.com
“What a difference three years makes. It seems quaint now that in the 2008 NEJM there were concerns raised about the flow of health information onto the web. Back then there was but a faint trickle of what could be entered, mostly by hand, and accessed on the web.
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Reynolds CJ, Wyatt JC. J Med Internet Res, 13(1)
Recognition of the improvements in patient safety, quality of patient care, and efficiency that health care information systems have the potential to bring has led to significant investment. Globally the sale of health care information systems now represents a multibillion dollar industry. As policy makers, health care professionals, and patients, we have a responsibility to maximize the return on this investment. To this end we analyze alternative licensing and software development models, as well as the role of standards.
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Kristina Kermanshahche, Intel Premier IT Professionals
“Whenever I meet folks in the industry, one of the top questions I hear is, “what is so compelling about health information exchange?” Fundamentally, health information exchange (HIE) is the underlying architecture required to support any healthcare usage model. So, anytime someone wants to share a piece of health information – for example, a personal health record, a national health information network, a medical kiosk, or a remote patient monitoring solution – each of these examples all make use of health information exchange.
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Pablo Pazos Gutierrez, Informática Médica y Estándares
“El objetivo de esta serie es presentar distintos estándares desde un punto de vista práctico y muy crítico, ya que muchas veces nos llega mucho ruido de quienes promueven sus propios estándares
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Musings by Seref Arikan
“Wow! I do not know how I should feel about this. Heather Leslie of Ocean Informatics wrote on Twitter that MS is leaving the HIS market, and as you can read here, it is true.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“At the Opensource.com Open Your World Forum on May 27, John D. Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and CIO of Harvard Medical School, described where open source and open standards fit into the ARRA expectations for healthcare IT. The short answer is, everywhere.
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“We concluded our last post in this series with a blunt prediction that “key physicians will sit on the sidelines” and that clinician non-adoption of EHR technology is a potential “deal-breaker for the success of HITECH”.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Open standards and interoperability are key to mobile health offerings scaling in developing markets, Ericsson’s head of sustainability and corporate responsibility Elaine Weidman told the Financial Times in a recent interview.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ComputerWorld
“Since I run my own small business, I’m very interested in health care reform. You see, my tiny — two-person — company pays more than four figures a month for health insurance. Ow!
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Mario Gibbels, ICTzorg
“OIZ, de vereniging van ict-bedrijven die actief zijn in de zorgsector, is overtuigd van de meerwaarde van een landelijk EPD maar vindt dat het huidige EPD-wetsvoorstel is gebaseerd op rigide specificaties die niet worden gedragen door leveranciers.
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Mike Klein, WTN News
“There used to be a time when we had a family doctor. A physician who knew your medical history? This doctor would see you outside of office hours and on weekends.
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eHealthServer
“Today, citizens aged 65+ make up 16 percent of the total population in all EU countries; this is projected to rise to 18 percent by 2010 and will continue to rise. The most dramatic increase is expected in the 80+ age range with a corresponding increase in co-morbidities that will place additional strains on existing health systems.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“Hong Kong’s Food and Health Bureau has set out healthcare reform plans that include proposals to develop a Hong Kong-wide electronic patient record-sharing system.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Do we want industry writing the nation’s health IT standards? CCHIT’s “standards” are, in fact, mainly approvals of whatever industry is doing.
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