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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Rick Doerr, GBI Portal
“A white paper release by the Advanced Development for Africa (ADA) last month laid out the necessary steps to scale mHealth projects in the developing world. Its goal was to provide governments, donors, and the private sector with the essential knowledge to push mHealth from pilot projects to scalable and sustainable solutions.
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AnneryanHeatwole, MobileActive.org
“We recently attended the mHealth Summit 2011 to learn more about the latest developments in the mobile health field. The conference brought together developers, practitioners, NGOs, representatives from corporate industries, and government officials to discuss the current state and future of mobile health.
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LeAnna J. Carey, Innovation Excellence
“Not many of us have an extra hour to spare, but one Twitter chat that you may want to squeeze into your schedule is #leadershipchat on Tuesday evenings at 8PM EST, co-hosted by author and CEO of C-Level Strategies, Inc., Lisa Petrilli and, The Connection Agent, Sam Woodruff. Last night, the subjects were – Is It Too Late For Today’s CEOs? and The Future of Leadership – with guest hosts Ted Coine (@tedcoine) and Shawn Murphy (@shawmu).
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal, St. Louis American
“Throughout all of the debates and disagreements associated with healthcare reform, one idea is universal throughout the political field – each side wants to improve the quality of medicine and decrease the associated costs. Missouri is no different.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The final rule for accountable care organizations relieved providers from some of the immediate pressures of establishing health IT, but electronic health records and other technologies will be critical to coordinate care to improve quality and lower costs.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“Analysis of the eHealth Initiative’s “2011 Report on HIE: The Changing Landscape” showed some encouraging signs, said HIE panelists Laura Kolkman, President of Mosaica Partners and Camilla Hull-Brown, Principal and Founder, Strategies for Tomorrow, during a presentation last week.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Telemedicine has great potential for extending the reach of a strained healthcare workforce and improving care coordination, but it needs to be accepted as just another means of providing care if the technology is to be sustainable, according to a newly published study.
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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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David C. Kibbe and Brian Klepper, Health Affairs Blog
“When the President was elected, this market was dominated by the vendor-controlled Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT). The entry rules were intentionally complex and expensive, safeguarded by an interlocking system of standards organizations and both open and clandestine industry alliances that defended against innovation and new entrants.
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Jeffrey Woodside, Heather Haugen, H&HN Weekly
“A nearly two-year study of health care organizations shows why implementation of new technology often does not lead to true adoption. Interviews and surveys of health care leaders, conducted by The Breakaway Group, reveal the barriers that impede electronic health record adoption.
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“There have been a collection of high-profile and well attended mobile health (mHealth) “summits” held around the world in the past few years, including last month’s second annual mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C. (headlined by Bill Gates and Ted Turner), but the really interesting conversations are happening on the African continent.
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“National approaches to eHealth program development have been varied, and unfortunately we can all probably identify more failed attempts than successes. Just recently we have seen a spectacular regrouping within the UK NHS in the face of cost blow-outs and underperformance – a stellar example of how a project commonly described as the biggest computing exercise in the world, outside the military, has hit the proverbial brick wall.
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Beacon Partners
“In this, our Third Quarter 2010 Industry Study, Beacon Partners set out to determine where healthcare organizations are in their journey toward Meaningful Use (MU), and to see if any are preparing for the long-term sustainability of their investments post American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) incentive dollars.
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Blog de la SEIS - Foro Técnico
““La telemedicina vive un momento de gran efervescencia, ya que los sistemas sanitarios se han dado cuenta de que si quieren ser sostenibles tienen que introducir cambios importantes. Y estos sólo se pueden realizar con las nuevas tecnologías”, aseguró Adolfo Muñoz, experto del Instituto Calos III, que ha participado en la VIII Reunión Foro de Telemecina celebrada en San Sebastián, organizada por la Sociedad Española de Informática de la Salud (SEIS) en colaboración con el Departamento de Sanidad del Gobierno Vasco.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Health information exchange is a key piece in the national effort to build an interconnected health care delivery system. Their potential to improve health care quality, reduce medical errors, and lower costs by means of increased interoperability and information-sharing among patients, providers, payors and other stakeholders is tremendous.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Been attending the mHealth Summit for the last 3 days and an over-arching theme has been:
mHealth is unlikely to ever become a market in its own right.
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Singh R et al, Health Services Research, 45(4)
Objective.
To examine adoption of telehealth in a rural public health district and to explain how the innovation became sustainable.
Study Setting.
Longitudinal, qualitative study (1988–2008) of the largest public health district in Georgia.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“You want an EMR, but you also want a return on your investment. At least one non-healthcare pundit believes you should look past just the financial bottom line and see that EMRs can provide benefits for the “3 Ps” of sustainability–people, planet, profits.
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Mark Hagland, Healthcare Informatics
“Last week, the Washington, D.C.-based eHealth Initiative presented a one-day forum on the development of health information exchanges (HIEs). In conjunction with that event, held in Washington, D.C., the eHealth Initiative organization released the results of a nationwide survey of HIEs.
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