Archive for October, 2008
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Value of EHRs becomes clearer - Encourage consumers to take ownership
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“One lesson that healthcare learned from hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 was that paper medical records, and those on disks and servers, are incredibly vulnerable. Now, in light of hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the value of electronic health records (EHRs), accessible from remote locations, has become crystal clear.
In fact, one health system was able […]
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Is Health 2.0 Being Over-Hyped?
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“Today in my Daily Dose e-newsletter from Modern Healthcare, there was a thought provoking post to the Daily Dialogue Reader Blog by Dmitriy Kruglyak titled “Buzz Surrounding Health 2.0 ‘Way Overblown’.” The article is a response to Rebecca Vesely’s earlier article: “Money Woes Don’t Slow Health 2.0”.”
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Dandunlop, The Healthcare Marketer, 30 October 2008
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‘Beter dan Google Health’
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“Weerwoord ministerie Volksgezondheid op kritiek landelijk EPD
Onder medici en in de media is veel beroering over het landelijk elektronisch patiëntendossier. Het zou niet werken, onveilig zijn en technisch al niet meer van deze tijd. Het ministerie van Volksgezondheid reageert op uiteenlopende bezwaren, vervat in tien stellingen. Conclusie: veel kritiek berust op misverstanden.
Minister Ab Klink zet […]
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Health 2.0 & The Widening Digital Divide: A Call to Action
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“Too many years witnessing the same thing. First in the ACOR system. Then in many conferences about eHealth, e-Patients and now Health 2.0 and the Connected Health symposium at Harvard Medical School. Why is an entire segment of the US population almost completely absent from the fast evolving world of Health 2.0 and Participatory Medicine?”
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Gilles […]
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Health 2.0 & The Widening Digital Divide: A Call to Action
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“Too many years witnessing the same thing. First in the ACOR system. Then in many conferences about eHealth, e-Patients and now Health 2.0 and the Connected Health symposium at Harvard Medical School. Why is an entire segment of the US population almost completely absent from the fast evolving world of Health 2.0 and Participatory Medicine?”
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Gilles […]
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Bank Bailout Puts £12.7bn NHS Electronic Medical Record Project In Jeopardy
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“What health IT mismanagement could not accomplish, perhaps international financial mismanagement will. Could this happen here?
This story reflects a veritable cornucopia of the issues I write about at Healthcare Renewal and at my site on HIT failure, with the added spice of the World Financial Debacle That Keeps On Giving, er, Taking.”
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal, […]
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Health 2.0 Conference 2008 in San Francisco Was a Hit, by Dan Kogan CEO of HealthWorldWeb
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“I have just returned from the Health 2.0 conference where the motto “Innovation, Collaboration and Transparency” sounded through the halls. Throughout the conference the idea that user / consumer driven healthcare is being recognized as the disruptive force in healthcare norms made for an electrifying atmosphere.”
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Health World Web, 30 October 2008
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Pelosi Adviser Says Democrats Will Introduce Health Information Technology Bill In Early 2009
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“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is committed to passing in the next session of Congress legislation that would require physicians nationwide to adopt health information technologies and could include negative consequences to encourage providers to do so, according to one of her senior advisers, CQ HealthBeat reports.”
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Medical News Today, 30 October 2008
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The Top 100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals
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“Open source software benefits professionals in all industries: government, Internet, business, education, and even health care. Expensive software and subscriptions for anti virus systems, supporting electronic medical records and even phone or e-mail communications can put on a strain on small clinics as well as larger hospitals. Open source tools are free, highly customizable, and […]
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Ambulatory Healthcare IT Survey
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“Approximately one-third of survey respondents noted that functional components of an electronic medical record (EMR) are in place at their organization. While Sage Software, eCLinicalWorks, GE, Misys and NextGen were frequently mentioned as the EMR vendor in place at these organizations, the research clearly suggests that there is no dominant market leader and that there […]
