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• Lessons from Obama: How to waste an IT budget

  
  FinanceTechNews.com — Authority: 131
  Here’s the question of the week: Should the U.S. government shell out the $19 billion that’s earmarked for electronic health records (EHR) if computerization doesn’t improve health care quality, reduce costs or boost administrative efficiency? Those are the findings of a new study just done at Harvard, and ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  2 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  2 days ago

• Hospital’s struggle illustrates health IT woes

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 475
  The University of California San Francisco Medical Center has written off more than a third of the $50 million it has spent on a system to digitize patients’ medical records, according to an article by AHCJ member Fred Schulte for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund and American University’s Investigative ...
  3 days ago

• Survey reveals how much patient privacy is at risk

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 475
  Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund report on a survey in which 75 percent of health organization say patients’ medical records were put at “risk of improper disclosure.” The study, done for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society , also revealed that ...
  1 week ago

• Health IT pros warn of network vulnerabilities during cyberwar

  
  News — Authority: 130
  Fans of doomsday scenarios, gather round. It may not be hackers that present the greatest threat to EHR databases, but terrorist groups or rogue regimes, a hospital IT director told federal officials last week. Testifying Friday before the federal Health IT Standards Committee, Chad Skidmore, director of network ...
  1 week ago

• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-20

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 117
  [Post from Infoglide ] Entity Resolution Metrics “In the last post we looked at the problem of measuring the accuracy of entity resolution processes.  As with any accuracy measure, comparing to a known standard of correctness or benchmark is required.  However, even without a benchmark, other measures are ...
  1 week ago

• Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  (Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected. This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. In a recent study, Dr. read more
  1 week ago

• Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  (Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected. This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. In a recent study, Dr. read more
  1 week ago

• Electronic Health Records, Your Data At Risk

  
  Natural Health News — Authority: 133
  I started posting articles about electronic health and medical records in 2006 on Natural Health News.  I am not in favour of this push in the arena of cost savings in the US health system.  To date little has been shown to indicate any effective improvment in healthcare delivery or cost savings, yet most of the ...
  1 week ago

• ICMCC: Perhaps the single most valuable e-patient info site

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 550
  In last weekend’s post about “patients want all their data” I said I wished I’d known about the article (published mid-May) during last summer’s health data debates in Washington. Incredible Dutch e-patient Lodewijk Bos tweaked me, saying he’d posted it the day it was released. That led me to ask him to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-16

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 117
  By the Infoglide Team Government Technology: California Plans to Launch Information Security Operations Center “The CA-ISOC would watch for attacks on the state government’s critical information infrastructure, including attempts to disrupt automated control networks for dams, power plants and other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dream Team No Longer an Option to Save 2012 eHealth Objectives

  
  Enterprise Insights — Authority: 116
  With the resignation of Ron Sapsford this past week the regime that has been associated with eHealth in Ontario for the past five years has completely turned over. The last remaining person is Dalton McGuinty himself who, if he is planning to vie for a third term as Premier, will have to erase much of the last several ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Center Gets Grant to Expand Network in State

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 156
  A grant for nearly $1.37 million will allow Coastal Family Health to expand its electronic warehouse, adding four more centers to a shared database. Seven federally qualified medical offices are part of the state’s Health Center Controlled Network, a group of health centers that has banded together to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Little Benefit Seen, So Far, in Electronic Patient Records

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  A new study shows that electronic health records have so far not made improved health care quality or cost. The reason may be that the technology is not being fully exploited.
  2 weeks ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Electronic Health Records Part II

  
  Why We Worry — Authority: 128
  Some notes from the writer, Andy Oram, of this O’Reilly Radar pos t when he attended the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium : According to the president of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, Micky Tripathi, 80% of US medical practices consist of just one or two physicians, and small practices handle 90% ...
  2 weeks ago

• Truth Behind Free EMR Software

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 131
  Google records more than a 1000 searches every month of people interested in free EMR software. Despite the common notion that “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” physicians continuously seek ways to acquire the EMR software without spending a single penny.There are three flavors of “free EMR” in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tablet PCs and EMR

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 131
  Tablet PCs represents one of the latest and the best technology in the field of EMRs and these have been successful in keeping up their promise of providing a perfect electronic solution for maintaining the patient charts.  There are two main types of PC tablets: convertible style and slate style.One major difference ...
  2 weeks ago

• What you Need to Know Before Investing in Web-Based EMR

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 131
  With the recession currently plaguing the lives of most Americans, spending money to implement Electronic Medical Records solution into practice may seem a bad idea. However, a great number of physicians have successfully implemented the “right-fit” EMR in their clinics to discover the increased efficiency of ...
  2 weeks ago

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