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• Consensus reached on e-health software standards

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “The move towards e-health standards has taken a significant step forward as industry groups join with the National E-health Transition Authority (NEHTA) to develop an approach for the standard assessment of medical software. The four industry groups — the Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA), the ...
  15 hours ago

• A Good Friend Is Hard To Lose

  
  Policy@Intel — Authority: 113
  Posted By: Eric Dishman My friend Leslie loved to quote from the famous Flannery O’Connor short story, A Good Man Is Hard To Find , where towards the end, the Misfit (an escaped convict) says of the Grandmother: “She would have been a good woman . . . if it [sic] had been somebody there to ...
  23 hours ago

• How health IT can bankrupt healthcare

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “How health IT can bankrupt healthcareFor those interested in health information technology, there is now an excellent, new, powerful article about this topic entitled, “Can Cleveland Clinic Be a Model for Digital Medicine?” where they discuss how this hospital system has failed to recoup their $100 million ...
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• IT helps drive $232B personalized medicine market

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “Information technology and telemedicine are helping to boost the market for personalized medicine in the United States and also benefiting from it. The $232 billion market is projected to grow 11 percent annually, according to a report published Tuesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers.” Article Bernie Monegain, ...
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• Inside a U.S. healthcare “island of excellence”

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “A former warehouse worker, Brubaker, 64, cannot walk, has little movement in any of his limbs, and has lost some powers of speech and hearing. He is being cared for by his wife Kay, who worked as a maid before retiring. What’s unusual is who is instructing Kay on how to administer medications and other routine ...
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• Report: Health Strategy Could Save W.Va. $1B

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “West Virginia’s health care system could save over $1.1 billion by going digital and centralizing patient care, according to a first-of-its-kind report presented to lawmakers Monday. Those savings would be seen not just by government agencies, but by private insurers and policyholders, who could benefit directly ...
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• Dangerous Definitions: Hospitals Urge Officials to Better Define Terms for EHR Incentive Payments

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 128
  As the battle in defining the term ‘meaningful use’ continues, another war on words has come to light. The American Hospital Association is reporting that a group of 43 hospitals and health systems have collectively sent a letter to Federal officials, urging them to better define certain terms under ARRA and the ...
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• HIT Implementation in Critical Access Hospitals: Extent of Implementation and Business Strategies Supporting IT Use

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  Small rural hospitals face considerable financial and personnel resource shortages which hinder their efforts to implement complex health information technology (HIT) systems. A survey on the use of HIT was completed by 85% of Iowa’s 82 Critical Access Hospitals (CAH). Analyses indicate that low IT staffing in CAHs ...
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• CBC News – Measuring the Return from Electronic Health Records is Murky Math, at Best

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “Sorry Infoway, the EHR Blueprint that you crafted 7 years ago is old and stale. We need new ideas, new strategies and we need to know what did not work. It is getting pretty tiresome hearing the same old stories about PACS, Synoptic Reporting and Alberta Netcare. How about a forensic review of all of the national ...
  2 days ago

• UK national health IT program may end

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “The British and U.S. national health IT programs, which were at one time being compared as close siblings, seem to be going in different directions, with the U.K.’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT) headed for a possible postponement. The nearly £13 billion ($21 billion) program is under fire because of its ...
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• Blumenthal confident IT will take hold across healthcare sector

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “The nation’s healthcare IT chief says he has faith in the “inevitable advancement” of healthcare IT. David Blumenthal, MD, spoke Friday at a conference of National Committee for Quality Assurance. Making healthcare IT part of the accepted culture for providing healthcare is not far off, Blumenthal said. With ...
  2 days ago

• 2009: A Year of Surprises and Change for the EHR Technology Market

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “2009 began with a bang for legacy Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors, promising strong sales and windfall profits on the heels of stimulus package incentive bonuses initially worth more than $19 billion to doctors and hospitals. But things changed dramatically along the way. Here are some surprises and notable ...
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• Will baby boomers drive health IT?

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “The AARP spent a little of its insurance profit recently putting on some dinners with consultant Michael Rogers and a bunch of 50-somethings, to talk about technology, then analyzing and publishing the results. Surprise, the AARP constituency or “market demographic” likes technology. Especially health IT.” ...
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• What Do Baby Boomers Want From Technology?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Americans 50 and older want technology to be practical, from small projectors to electronic health records, according to an unusual research project sponsored by AARP and Microsoft.
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• What Do Baby Boomers Want From Technology?

  
  Bits — Authority: 757
  By next year, one-third of the United States population will be over 50 years old. That graying demographic is expected to outspend younger adults by $1 trillion in 2010. And among other things, the over-50 crowd shows the highest intent to purchase consumer electronics of any age group.But is the over-50 demographic ...
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• NHS IT programme faces cuts

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “Parts of the multibillion-pound national NHS IT progamme could be cancelled in this week’s Pre-Budget Report, the Chancellor Alastair Darling has warned. Speaking on Sunday the Chancellor said the delayed £12.7 billion programme was “quite expensive” programme, and parts could be postponed to save cash. The ...
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• A Busy Sunday with My Nephew

  
  fragments of thoughts..a piece of life — Authority: 124
  I went to the mall with my nephew early today. We are going to the Smart Wireless Center to get my new free celphone! I applied to the retention program of Smart about a couple of months ago. And finally, I am going to get my free phone! We arrived at the center at around 11am. We waited for more than an hour ...
  3 days ago

• Focus on healthcare urgently needed in Canada

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “Healthcare is one area where vendors and distributors are placing their bets, since it’s a market that appears to be growing despite economic conditions. And here in Canada, there’s most definitely a need for smart solutions – since our government has managed to make a mess of things, and we’re not nearly ...
  5 days ago

• Would You Compromise Your Cancer Cure?

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 107
  Your doctor has good news and bad news. The bad news is you have cancer in your abdomen. The good news is that it can be cured, using a combination of three drugs and ten radiation treatments. Would you settle for just two of the three drugs? Would you compromise your medical care and take one drug the doctor ...
  6 days ago

• Healthcare Data Breaches Slow To Surface

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts Since the HITECH Act data breach notification provisions became effective this past September 23, 2009, I’d recently become curious about the number and nature of data breaches that would start to appear on the website at the Department of Health and ...
  6 days ago

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