ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics 
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“De Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit (NZa) wil per 2014 een oplossing introduceren voor bredere toepassing van telediagnostiek. Ook moet telediagnostiek beter te declareren worden. Dat blijkt uit het adviesrapport ‘Mogelijkheden e-health in de medisch specialistische zorg’ van de NZa.
NZa adviseert bredere toepassing telediagnostiek.
Het is volgens de NZa belangrijk om te investeren in telediagnostiek en teleconsultatie omdat deze [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 16, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News diagnose e-Health Teleconsultation Telemedicine Source Type: news
EHRs Have Mixed Effect on Health Costs
“Using electronic health records (EHRs) saved a little more than 3% in ambulatory health costs 18 months after adoption but didn’t reduce overall inpatient costs, a large comparative study of EHR use found.
With that rate of savings, it would take 7 years to recoup the projected 5-year adoption costs for an EHR, according to the [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 16, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Costs Source Type: news
Google Glass eyed as future healthcare tool
“Wearable devices potentially hold the key to new approaches to improving healthcare quality, delivery costs and consumer engagement, said Antonio Zugaldia, chief technology officer at Washington, D.C.-based Silica Labs, which develops Google Glass healthcare apps. He spoke during a July 11 health innovation event at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health, which is a [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 15, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Google Glass Wearable Source Type: news
HIE incentives and models misaligned, study finds
“More providers than ever are participating in health information exchanges (HIEs), at the same time that a majority of HIE organizations are struggling to find sustainable business models, a new study has found.
About 30 percent of hospitals and 10 percent of ambulatory practices are now participating in one of the 119 operational HIEs across the [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 12, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Failure Health Information Exchange Incentives Source Type: news
Operational Health Information Exchanges Show Substantial Growth, But Long-Term Funding Remains A Concern
Policy makers are actively promoting the electronic exchange of health information to improve the quality and efficiency of health care. We conducted a national survey of organizations facilitating health information exchange, to assess national progress. We found that 30 percent of hospitals and 10 percent of ambulatory practices now participate in one of the 119 [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 12, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Health Information Exchange Source Type: news
States prepare for seamless exchange of health records after disasters
“As part of an effort to help make sure their residents’ health information is available after a hurricane or other wide-spread disaster, four Gulf states have partnered with six states in the East and Midwest to help patients and providers access critical health information when they are unable to visit their regular doctors or hospitals.
Working [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 12, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Disaster Health Information Exchange Source Type: news
Interoperability: Not a non-issue
“There has been some buzz lately about how interoperability is a non-issue. I beg to differ.
With increasing pressure from federal initiatives like Meaningful Use Stage 2, there is growing need for information exchange across the industry. As many federal incentive programs will soon come to the end of their reporting period, providers are likely to [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 12, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Interoperability Source Type: news
Google Glass has immense medical applications
“There has recently been a slew of media attention given to the soon to be released Google Glass. It is essentially a pair of eyeglasses equipped with powerful computing capabilities. The hardware includes Wifi and Bluetooth capabilities, and features like cameras, voice-activation commands, and a heads-up display are available. This device will find many uses [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 12, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Google Glass Source Type: news
Health Affairs studies: EHR incentives work, but challenges remain
“Two reports from Health Affairs point to a strong increase in health IT adoption among hospitals and physicians groups due to federal incentives, but amid uneven progress with considerable barriers to overcome—especially in achieving Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2.
In one report, “ Adoption Of EHRs Grows Rapidly, But Fewer Than Half Of U.S. Hospitals Had [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 11, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Incentives Meaningful Use Source Type: news
Adoption Of Electronic Health Records Grows Rapidly, But Fewer Than Half Of US Hospitals Had At Least A Basic System In 2012
The US health care system is in the midst of an enormous change in the way health care providers and hospitals document, monitor, and share information about health and care delivery. Part of this transition involves a wholesale, but currently uneven, shift from paper-based records to electronic health record (EHR) systems. We used the most [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 11, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Adoption Hospitals Information Technology Meaningful Use Paper Conversion Source Type: news
Giving Patients a Role in Data Exchange
“A pilot program at the University of Texas at Austin seeks to find the right processes for enabling patients to track who requests and receives their protected health information.
The pilot, being done under the umbrella of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, is designed to add transparency to the process of [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 11, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News RA News Record Access Consent Data Exchange Health Information Exchange Patient Source Type: news
Liberalised wi-fi and online health records: Italy unwraps Decreto del Fare plan
“In Italy, you’d be forgiven for starting to suspect there are thinktanks that exist solely to choose the best name for every new government initiative. The country’s prime minister, Enrico Letta — currently trying to negotiate a delicate balancing act with his unstable coalition — recently launched the Decreto del Fare, which loosely translates as [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 11, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Implementation Wi-fi Source Type: news
Les wearable devices, désormais partie intégrante de l’écosystème mobile
“Dédiée cette année à l’expérience mobile intégrée, la sixième édition de la conférence MobileBeat s’est ouverte sur une des grandes thématiques de l’année : les « wearable devices. » Des montres aux Google Glass en passant par les lentilles connectées, ces gadgets ont pour objectif d’intégrer la technologie à notre vie quotidienne de façon toujours [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 11, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Google Glass integration Software Wearable Source Type: news
Legal Scholars Cite New Challenges in Struggle to Protect Patient Privacy
“The privacy of patients’ medical records has been protected by federal law since the mid-1990s, but two Seton Hall School of Law faculty members are concerned that the rise of cloud computing poses new threats to the security of these records.
In a new paper, Frank Pasquale and Tara Adams Ragone argue that regulators need to [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Legal Patient Privacy Source Type: news
HITPC: Focus on HIT safety plan strategies
“The new health IT patient safety action and surveillance plan is designed to advance patient safety in an increasing health IT-enabled healthcare system, said Jodi G. Daniel, JD, MPH, director of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT’s (ONC’s) Office of Policy and Planning, during the July 9 Health IT Policy Committee meeting.
Health [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Interoperability Safety Standards Source Type: news
