Health IT Forecast: Cloudless
06/30/10 09:10 am ET
Hindered by cultural bias and distrust, the healthcare sector's adoption of cloud computing is probably a decade away, experts say.>>
TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
06/30/10 09:10 am ET
Hindered by cultural bias and distrust, the healthcare sector's adoption of cloud computing is probably a decade away, experts say.>>
06/29/10 06:16 pm ET
More bad news for health costs - and how technology is pushing them up.>>
06/28/10 06:44 pm ET
Technology has taken over much of the dating scene, with match-making sites such as eharmony.com. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the flip side of finding that perfect mate through the Web is online marriage counseling. The Well blog at the New York Times on Monday discussed these programs. >>
06/25/10 09:00 am ET
A pilot project underway in California is testing the use of wireless technologies to treat veterans with mental health issues. >>
06/24/10 12:55 pm ET
The relentless march of health IT reached a milestone of sorts this week with the release of an iPhone game designed to sharpen users' cognitive health and boost their physical activity. >>
06/23/10 09:00 am ET
The president is calling for every American to have an electronic medical record by 2014. It is an ambitious goal. >>
06/22/10 03:55 pm ET
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched on Monday a new website detailing its electronic health records incentives program, an initiative designed to provide financial rewards to health care providers who demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health records systems. >>
06/21/10 04:16 pm ET
Electronic health records are getting another boost from the Office of the National Coordinator, which on Thursday will publish a final rule for a temporary EHR certification program. >>
06/18/10 08:55 am ET
The campaign to replace the country's paper medical files with interoperable electronic records is backed by the full force of the federal government, including tens of billions of dollars. The basic strategy is to entice and/or coerce the country's 800,000 or so doctors to go electronic. >>
06/17/10 10:11 am ET
Lobbyists gathered in Washington, D.C., for National Health IT Week are blanketing Capitol Hill and pushing a three-point agenda. >>
06/16/10 10:30 am ET
Leaving systems on default settings have been a big problem for computer users when it comes to peer to peer programs and even major networks.>>
06/15/10 05:30 pm ET
Growing numbers of doctors and hospitals say the deadline for meeting strict "meaningful use" standards set by the government for electronic health records is unrealistic. One man, though, is questioning whether the deadline is sufficiently ambitious. >>
06/14/10 03:17 pm ET
You probably get tired of hearing "there's an app for that," but when it comes to health IT, don't count on a shortage of new games and gadgets anytime soon. Some apps are more useful than others, but MyIR, used to track immunization records for individuals and families, is a handy tool for iPhone owners. >>
06/11/10 02:00 pm ET
Even as hospitals struggle to meet the government's "meaningful use" requirements for electronic health records, another critical factor is emerging that could determine the primacy of EHRs: friendliness of use.>>
06/10/10 06:04 pm ET
Nextgov Editor at Large Bob Brewin reported on Thursday that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is going ahead with a conference to talk to contractors about a new $9 million program that will rely on social media, virtual worlds and other online apps to help soldiers cope with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. The Senate and the House Armed Services committee don't like the idea. They say DARPA doesn't have the expertise in health privacy law to properly protect the information.>>
06/09/10 11:56 am ET
A swelling chorus of skeptics holds that the Obama administration's plan for digitizing the country's medical records is well-intentioned but unrealistic. Rules governing disbursement of incentive funds--valued at $34 billion and intended to promote adoption of new information technology by doctors and hospitals--are simply too stringent, they say. >>
06/08/10 05:26 pm ET
No longer does your mother have to shout, "Sit up!" Now your shirt will.>>
06/07/10 10:10 am ET
Want to see an interactive map on the web that easily compares the health of different communities? There's an app for that. How about an enhanced web search that integrates hospital performance data into hospital search results? There's an app for that. Tools for mobile phones that put new health information at consumers' fingertips? Yep. >>
06/03/10 04:52 pm ET
As the country lurches toward a future in which electronic medical records replace paper files that are at present the industry standard, resolving the question of how much control patients should have over digital files continues to be a sticky wicket. >>
06/04/10 01:12 pm ET
E-health records may serve a valuable purpose outside hospitals and physicians' offices. The organizers of last year's Detroit Free Press Marathon, held in October, collected medical information from participants prior to the race and stored it on a secure server, reports Scientific American. >>
06/01/10 10:43 am ET
The usability (or lack thereof) of electronic health records is a key factor in their adoption, yet vendors do a poor job of systematically focusing on convenience of use throughout the development and testing of EHRs, concluded a recently released report. >>
