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- Michigan Hospital Ties Speech Recognition to ED System
- KLAS: HIEs Need Reality Check
- Survey: Privacy compliance has declined
- E-book: Making E-Health Work
- Consumer tools: UCompareHealthCare Offers Free Reports on Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Physicians
- Articles: Direct to Consumer: Women are a powerful, but untapped, audience
- Consumer tools: Really Personal PHRs
- Consumer trends: Manhattan Predicts Online Health Trends
- News: Wall Street Journal Looks at Tools That Identify Low-Cost Care Options
- Consumer tools: Consumer Health Complete Now Available from EBSCO Publishing
- State agencies on trial today
- AvMed patients' data in stolen laptops
- Red tape stalls Haiti evacuations
- 'Country Doctor of the Year' in Keys
| Michigan Hospital Ties Speech Recognition to ED System Posted: 09 Feb 2010 08:53 AM PST Garden City Hospital (Mich.) has integrated speech recognition software from Dragon Medical with Arlington, Texas-based Emergisoft ’s Emergisoft ED in its emergency department. Through the implementation, the hospital can now create transcription-free clinical documentation, which in turn can reduce time spent documenting care and optimize EMR usage for clinicians, says the company. Clinicians can navigate through Emergisoft ED and document into either the Document Guides or Emergisoft EC Forms, it says. A 323-bed teaching hospital, Garden City provides comprehensive healthcare services, osteopathic medical education, and health care related programs to the community. |
| Posted: 09 Feb 2010 08:49 AM PST Despite claims by some vendors that many examples of successful health information exchanges (HIEs) have been built on their solutions, only a relatively small number of vendors have produced a proven, repeatable model, according to a new report from KLAS (Orem, Utah). In its research, KLAS validated 89 live HIE organizations that use commercial technologies to share patient data that is being viewed by doctors. Axolotl has the most live HIE clients in the acute-to-acute space, where two or more hospitals or health systems are sharing patient data, it says. KLAS identified seven live acute-to-acute HIE organizations using Axolotl technology, saying that providers cited the company’s flexible technology and the expertise of its staff with the HIE process as key reasons for selecting the vendor. Meanwhile, Epic also had seven validated acute-to-acute sites, but the vendor is unique in that its Care Everywhere solution currently only connects Epic software customers, says KLAS. According to the research, providers also reported a number of administrative challenges in deploying an HIE, including IT governance concerns regarding privacy, security and patient consent, as well as the financial viability and sustainability of the HIE. In fact, KLAS found that among its 89 validated sites, more than 70 percent are funded with state or federal grants. For more information about the report — entitled Health Information Exchanges: The Reality of HIE Adoption — healthcare providers and vendors can visit www.KLASresearch.com/reports . |
| Survey: Privacy compliance has declined Posted: 14 May 2006 01:56 AM PDT Three years after federal rules governing the privacy of patients' medical records went into effect, compliance seems to have declined for 6 percent, according to an annual survey conducted by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Read more about this at here.  |
| Posted: 14 May 2006 01:53 AM PDT E-Health has become an integral part of present-day healthcare delivery. With healthcare consumers, increasingly the focus of most health systems, the widespread implementation of health information and communications technologies offers cost-effective opportunities to meet their increasingly sophisticated healthcare needs.Bankix Systems Ltd has released its latest e-book. It is a 200-page in-depth analysis of the issues involved in "Making E-Health Work," the e-book's title. Read more about this e-book at here.  |
| Consumer tools: UCompareHealthCare Offers Free Reports on Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Physicians Posted: 11 Mar 2006 01:01 AM PST "UCompareHealthCare has just unveiled its Web site, ucomparehealthcare.com, which features free reports on the nation's nursing homes, hospitals and physicians to help consumers make informed healthcare decisions. I checked the web site and found it very informative for health consumers to help them make informed decision about their choices of doctors, hospitals and others." Read more about this at UCompareHealthCare  |
| Articles: Direct to Consumer: Women are a powerful, but untapped, audience Posted: 03 Feb 2006 12:04 AM PST "Women influence many family decisions—from choosing what's for dinner to selecting the medications their children take. In fact, nearly two-thirds of women are responsible for family healthcare decisions, according to a 2004 national survey conducted by Plan for Your Health. Many women also assume the care-giving role outside their nuclear families. Today's middle-aged woman may also look after her parents and in-laws too, often determining how long they can live on their own and how to best care for them. In addition, she often influences the important health decisions of grandchildren, co-workers, and friends." Read more at PharmExec.  |
| Consumer tools: Really Personal PHRs Posted: 27 Jan 2006 01:05 AM PST "If we're committed to fostering the adoption of personal health records, we should take a page out of the consumer marketing textbooks — not the primers of health IT marketers. This was my conclusion after attending a recent meeting in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Markle Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Quality Research and Quality. " Read more about this at iHealthBeat .  |
| Consumer trends: Manhattan Predicts Online Health Trends Posted: 27 Jan 2006 12:06 AM PST "US healthcare specialist Manhattan Research has published a summary of the major trends for health and pharmaceutical marketers to consider in 2006. The trends chart the increased use of the web and other new technologies as a health information and communication tool for both patients and physicians." Read more at Daily Research News Online.  |
| News: Wall Street Journal Looks at Tools That Identify Low-Cost Care Options Posted: 26 Jan 2006 01:07 AM PST "The Wall Street Journal on Thursday looked at efforts by insurers to provide patients with tools - including a cell phone Web browsing service - to help them find low-cost treatment options. Lumenos, a unit of WellPoint, in February will launch the cell phone service, which lets patients type drug names into their cell phones' Web browsers and get lists of lower-cost alternatives. The program is designed so that patients can ask their physicians about cost-effective alternatives while they still are at their appointments." Read more at iHealthBeat.  |
| Consumer tools: Consumer Health Complete Now Available from EBSCO Publishing Posted: 25 Jan 2006 12:09 AM PST "In continuing with the company's goal of providing the most comprehensive collection of online health and wellness resources, EBSCO Publishing has announced the release of Consumer Health Complete (CHC). This full text database is designed to support consumer and patients' information needs as well as foster an overall understanding of health-related topics." Read more at Managing Information News.  |
| Posted: By Sammy Mack 2/9/2010 © Health News Florida |
| AvMed patients' data in stolen laptops Posted: 2/9/2010 © Gainesville Sun The theft of two laptops from AvMed Health Plans may have compromised personal information on more than 200,000 patients and their dependents, the company says. |
| Red tape stalls Haiti evacuations Posted: 2/9/2010 © New York Times Private evacuations of critically injured Haitian children for treatment have halted because many fear kidnapping charges if they transport children without proper paperwork, which is unavailable. Meanwhile, AP reports a UN claim that Haitian hospitals are charging patients for donated medicine. And in Tampa, donated supplies sit waiting. |
| 'Country Doctor of the Year' in Keys Posted: 2/9/2010 © Miami Herald Steven J. Smith of the Keys may be a general surgeon, but he treats patients at his family practice for everything from the common cold to cancer. He was named the 2009 Country Doctor of the Year. |
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