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Monday, 19 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Can Health Care Orgs Maintain Trust With Electronic Records? » (from Forbes) You don’t want your personal health information to spread virally around the Internet. Save that for the talking baby videos on YouTube. The...
Monday, 19 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Health Affairs: Docs need to learn more health IT competency earlier » (from Health Imaging) Quality improvement and patient-centered care—two concepts essential to the health reform effort—will require health IT. Current and future physicians must master the...
Monday, 19 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) iPads make University of Chicago medical residents more efficient » (from mobihealthnews) Maybe iPads aren’t so bad after all acting as Citrix terminals for mobile EHR access. Unlike in the failed, much-publicized, small-scale trial at...
Monday, 19 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) 5 reasons EHR functionality hasn't changed since 1982 » (from Government Health IT) Electronic health records (EHRs) have traveled on quite a journey since their inception in the 1960s. Powered by the advancement of...
Monday, 19 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) The EHR: It’s about our patients, not technology » (from amed.news) A message to all physicians from Robert M. Wah, MD, chair of the AMA Board of Trustees. I recently returned from the Health...
Monday, 19 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Europeans see eHealth potential, but pharma faces a trust gap » (from PMLiVE) Europeans expect the use of eHealth technology, like online health resources, disease monitors and mobile apps, to improve their health status, according to...
Monday, 19 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Survey searches for definition of the engaged patient » (from amednews.com) Nearly all of the health care organization leaders surveyed by the National eHealth Collaborative said patient engagement was important to health system reform....
Monday, 19 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Pediatricians' pain-medication judgments affected by unconscious racial bias, says UW study » (from Health Canal) By Molly McElroy - Pediatricians who show an unconscious preference for European Americans tend to prescribe better pain-management for white patients than...
Friday, 16 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Health IT Boosts Care but Requires More Investment: CDW » (from eWeek) Although 84 percent of caregivers say technology improves treatment of patients, hospitals require more investment in IT infrastructure, a report by CDW Healthcare...
Friday, 16 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Survey: Most hospitals with EHRs and HIEs plan cloud initiatives » (From Fierce Health IT) Hospitals and healthcare systems are increasingly eyeing the use of cloud-based systems, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive for...
Friday, 16 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) eHealth Innovation: HIT leaders ponder needs for population, economic health » (from CMIO) CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—A panel of healthcare technology leaders discussed innovation for population and economic health during the inaugural eHealth Innovation conference. David Cochran, MD,...
Friday, 16 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Free universal health care isn’t free or universal » (from the spec.com) We like to think we have free health care in Ontario. We know it’s not really free. In fact, we actually pay...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Small practices no longer lagging in EHR adoption Read more: Small practices no longer lagging in E » (from FierceEMR) Solo practitioners and small physician practices finally are jumping onto the electronic health record bandwagon, for the first time adopting EHR systems at...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Meaningful Use spurs EHR use by radiologists » (from FierceEMR) The Meaningful Use incentive program is the main driver for the increase of electronic health records by radiology therapy departments, according to a...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Big, Small EHR Vendors Both Support Hospitals Attesting to Stage 1 MU » (from iHealthBeat) Both large and small vendors offer electronic health record systems that have helped hospitals attest to Stage 1 of the meaningful use program,...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Meaningful Use dollars push EHR sales 14% » (from FierceEMR) Vendors may be the biggest beneficiaries of the Meaningful Use incentive program: Sales of electronic health record systems reached $17.9 billion in 2011,...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) eHealth Innovation: ONC exec notes private sector woes for technology development » (from CMIO) CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--Speaking at the inaugural eHealth Innovation Conference on March 15, Wil Yu, special assistant of innovations and research for the Office of...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) eHealth Innovation: Puny IT budgets stifle innovation » (from Health Imaging) CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—"There’s a bandwidth limitation,” said Ray Campbell, Esq, MPA, executive director and CEO of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, speaking March...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) eHealth Innovation: ONC exec notes private sector woes for technology development » (from CMIO) CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--Speaking at the inaugural eHealth Innovation Conference on March 15, Wil Yu, special assistant of innovations and research for the Office of...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Health Home Stakeholders Meet to Assess Health IT Needs » (from MarketWatch) Medicaid, DOH, RHIOs, Health Home participants, Health Plans, and NYeC discuss Health IT requirements of key Health Home program challenges Stakeholders in...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Health Home Stakeholders Meet to Assess Health IT Needs » (from MarketWatch) Medicaid, DOH, RHIOs, Health Home participants, Health Plans, and NYeC discuss Health IT requirements of key Health Home program challenges Stakeholders in...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) What do we really know about e-health? Not much. » (from Macleans.ca) The statement: "Our research raises real concerns about whether health information technology is going to be the answer to reducing costs.”—New York Times,...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Namibia: Computerised Health Records On Track » (from AllAfrica) THE Ministry of Health recently advertised a tender for the supply of computer equipment for hospitals in Oshakati, Rundu, Keetmanshoop and Windhoek as...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) The EU and e-health: a European disease » (from eu observer.com) Healthcare, strictly speaking, is none of the EU's business. It is a sensitive issue that member states have largely preferred to keep...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Kenya: Students Get Advice » (from Nairobi Star) Medical students have been urged to embrace technology to establish e-health in the country. While speaking during an annual medical camp in...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Do Hospital CIOs Plan To Invest in Cloud-Based EHR or Health Data Exchange Technology? » (from iHealthBeat) Among CIOs of hospitals with electronic health record systems and health information exchange tools, 36% said their hospital plans to invest in cloud-based...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Healthcare CIOs Need To Understand Physicians' Pain » (from Information Week) The ability to sympathize with another person's suffering is one of the admirable traits that separate humans from the rest of the...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) ONC's chief fires back on EHR doom and gloom study » (from JAAPA) Last week we talked about a new study ("Giving Office-Based Physicians Electronic Access To Patients' Prior Imaging And Lab Results Did Not Deter...
Thursday, 15 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Social media helping to counter health myths » (from Fox News) [believe it or not!] Researchers have recently used social media to track the spread of diseases such as influenza, and now they...
Wednesday, 14 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) New Zealand's world-leading 'health informatics' » (from Healthcare Global) New Zealand's size and dispersed population have led to innovative uses of technology, acting as a pilot market for broader application into...
Wednesday, 14 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) EHRs Become More Popular With Small Medical Practices » (from Information Week) Cloud services, help from feds, and backing from parent institutions all credited for recent surge in adoption of electronic health records by...
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Healthcare Groups Issue New Guides to Using Personal Health Records » (from Market Watch) Key healthcare organizations are teaming up to help take the mystery out of using personal health records (PHR) by rolling out two...
Monday, 12 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Report: Data remain constant throughout health IT change » (from Health Imaging) Research firm Health Research Institute (HRI) surveyed more than 600 provider, health insurer and pharmaceutical/life science professionals to produce its white paper...
Monday, 12 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) PHARMAGEST INTER. : INTERACTIVE announces the launching of its e-Health Pole » (from 4-Traders) The recent external growth of PHARMAGEST INTERACTIVE - DIATELIC (a subsidiary specializing in artificial intelligence and expert systems to predict the evolution of...
Monday, 12 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Mental health services go virtual » (from E-Health & Technology) Minister for Mental Health, Mark Butler, has recently announced that thousands of Australians who experience anxiety and depression will soon be...
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