David Ellis, H&HN Daily
“Accelerating advances in computing will affect health care. More computing power equals more automation; greater efficiency; lower costs; better clinical, administrative and logistical decisions; better clinical research and understanding; and, ultimately, better care for the patient and better support for those delivering that care — those left standing, that is, after the tsunami hits.
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Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“If your house is burning, you want the fire department ASAP. If you called the number for the fire department and got street sweeping or business licenses instead, you would be in big trouble. Words matter.
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Thomson Reuters
“In this video, Andreas Matern, Vice President Disruptive Innovation, talks about how Thomson Reuters can apply a “little data” approach to your internal information. Helping you to find exactly what you’re looking for and generate new insights to drive innovation at your organization.”
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Jonah Comstock, mobihealthnews
“A small validation study in Sweden suggests that teledermatology, conducted using an iPhone, a dedicated app, and a connected dermascope, can be roughly as effective as a face-to-face dermatology consultation.
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Kyle Murphy, EHR Intelligence
“Patients with diseases such as diabetes produce valuable data regularly, some of which can prevent serious medical events from escalating if providers are able to intervene more quickly and directly. For these patients, medical device integration and patient engagement are seemingly one and the same.
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Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Nearly all U.S. doctors responding to a recent Accenture survey said they use electronic health records (EHRs). But a new report from Deloitte shows a somewhat different picture: Just two-thirds of physicians said they have an EHR capable of showing Meaningful Use (MU), and 45% of the remaining third, or about 15% of all respondents, said they have no plans to purchase an EHR that meets MU criteria.
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Rebecca Grant, Venture Beat
“Mobile devices could save the medical industry and consumers billions of dollars a year.
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John D. Halamka, MedCity News
“In response to many questions about PHR use by adolescents, I asked Fabienne Bourgeois, the expert at Children’s Hospital Boston, to write this guest blog post –
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John Halamka and John P. Hoyt, iHealthBeat
“Since its passage three years ago, some in Congress have sought every opportunity to reduce funding related to the Affordable Care Act. It’s no surprise that the recent round of sequester cuts have targeted elements of health care technology infrastructure, including the health insurance marketplaces that are meant to be online later this year.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Along with federal mandates and pressure from insurers, consumers’ views that doctors are not modern could be the push they need to implement health IT.
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Deborah Kohn, Government Health IT
“Now that portions of patient EHRs and visit summaries are available via portals and meaningful use requirements, not only will the organizations’ internal users be complaining about system flaws, poor configurations or outstanding training issues — but so will the external users, the patients and recipients of the health information.
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PHYSorg
“The time may be fast approaching for researchers to take better advantage of the vast amount of valuable patient information available from U.S. electronic health records. Lian Duan, an NJIT computer scientist with an expertise in data mining, has done just that with the recent publication of “Adverse Drug Effect Detection,” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (March, 2013).
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Ann O'Dea, Silicon Republic
“Picture a scenario where, by collecting the right data and using today’s sophisticated analytics, our health system could predict when a patient with chronic conditions might get very ill and require hospitalisation, and intervene before that happens, thus saving the health system millions, and improving the outcomes for patients. A pipe dream? No, it is actually happening in the Basque country in Spain, where an e-health pilot is using today’s big-data technologies to do just that.
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Jennifer Bresnick, EHR Intelligence
“The American Medical Association (AMA) has released a report clarifying its position on the idea of skipping ICD-10 altogether and moving straight to ICD-11 when it becomes available in an unknown number of years. While the AMA has been protesting the implementation of ICD-10 for some time, and continues to do so, the report states that moving straight to ICD-11 is “fraught with pitfalls” and “not recommended.”
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Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“All signs point to telemedicine entering the mainstream healthcare industry. Maybe it’s fresh on my mind because the American Telemedicine Association’s annual conference–which took place in Austin, Texas this year–just ended, but there’s more to it than that.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Telehealth holds enormous potential for transforming healthcare, but, to telemedicine pioneer Dr. Jay Sanders, the primary barrier is not financial. Instead, physician and patient attitudes about healthcare and health itself must change, said Sanders, who often has been called the father of telemedicine.
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Jennifer Bresnick, EHR Intelligence
“You’re not done once you’ve implemented your EHR. Whether you’re interested in joining a health information exchange or you’re shifting into accountable care, the EHR is simply the first piece in a complex web of information technology systems that will help your patients take charge of their own wellness, keeping your quality measures high and your dollars in your pockets. The continuum of care doesn’t start and end with the information typed into your EHR during an office visit.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, Healthcare Info Security
“Will the use of the Direct Project secure messaging protocol for the exchange of health data end up killing off some struggling health information exchange organizations once HITECH Act funding for HIEs ends during 2014? That’s a question some observers are asking.
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Heather Punke, Becker's Hospital Review
“At the Becker’s Hospital Review 4th Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 11, Devin Carpenter, RN, assistant director of nursing at Parmer Medical Center in Friona, Texas, shared tips to follow for a successful electronic health record implementation.
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Katie Clark, EMR and HIPAA
“mHealth is on the rise, and it looks like usage of smart phones among physicians is following that same trend. A recent study shows that usage rose about nine percent in 2012, which shows that it is becoming more accepted in the medical world. It will be interesting to see if it increases even more this year (I have a feeling it might.)
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