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The European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) is a flagship initiative of the EU 2020 strategy, which focuses on sustainable growth through ICT. eHealth is a key part of it, said Flora Girogio of the EC’s ICT for Health unit, speaking at the Global eHealth Forum in Hamburg today. The DAE will develop the necessary infrastructure.
As you read this November issue of Healthcare IT News, Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Across the country healthcare IT personnel are beginning to count their blessings.
The inaugural Global eHealth Forum, a successor to the Baltic eHealth Conference, opened today in Hamburg, Germany. More than 200 delegates have already registered for the event, making it one of the highlights on the annual eHealth events calendar from the outset.
Survey data consistently show the public supports health IT but is very concerned about the risks health IT poses to individual privacy. Contrary to the views expressed by some, privacy is not the obstacle to health IT. In fact, appropriately addressing privacy and security is key to realizing the technologyʼs potential benefits.
The need for speed in the emergency department (ED) cannot be overstated because seconds and minutes can make all the difference in ED patient outcomes. Ironically, however, some hospitals’ recent moves to replace best-of-breed emergency department information systems (EDIS) with enterprise electronic health record solutions may jeopardize ED physicians’ ability to provide quality care in our industry’s fastest-paced environment.
Not since the rise of managed care in the 1990s has there been such a surge in the acquisition of physician practices by hospitals and health systems.
The Mass. eHealth Institute offers local physicians assistance with EHR education, selection, deployment and financing.
Fueled by efforts to reduce acute and long-term care costs, the U.S. patient monitoring market is expected to reach almost $4 billion by 2017, according to a new report by iDataResearch, a global research and consulting firm.
Ten U.S. hospitals and healthcare systems have partnered with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare to end potentially deadly breakdowns in communication that occur during the hand-off of patients from one caregiver to another. Among their recommendations: Identify new and existing technologies to 'hardwire' into the system.
Aided by its electronic health record system, Kaiser Permanente of Georgia has the highest breast cancer-screening rate for eligible women ages 42 to 69 among the health plans reporting to the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA).