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POLL: What is your medical center’s largest obstacle to EHR adoption?

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Clinical Surveillance helps improve safety, pharmacy efficiency and cost savings

Big thanks to Maeghan for this case study from Lehigh Valley High Network: PDF Case Study [+]

An Overview of the Meaningful Use Criteria

An overview of the first draft of the meaningful use criteria that was published in June 2009 by the Meaningful Use Workgroup of the Health Information Technology Policy Committee. [+]

Nursing Informatics: The Future is Now

This presentation will address the movement of health care to electronic health record implementation and the value of such initiatives. The important role of nurses in the implementation and evaluation of electronic health record systems [+]

What are Health Record Banks?

Health Record Banks offer a safe, secure place to automatically store and control your personal health information. Video overview presented by the non-profit Health Record Banking Alliance. [+]

COWs enable better health care

No, not the mooing beef creature! Computers on Wheels. A West Tennessee hospital institution is adopting a new Bedside Medication Verification system that ensures the right medication, right patient, right time, right route, [+]

E-Health Insider Awards 2009

Highlights from the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT. I liked the Mission of "Make Information Sexy". [+]

HealthCampNYC and Participatory Health Care

HealthCampNYC takes place on Saturday November 7th at the Teacher's College, columbia, New York, NY. This is part of the HealthCamp Network of Un-Conferences that discusses Participatory HealthCare and the use of Social Media, Open [+]

Promising new Health IT innovation to find the lost

Less than two weeks old, EmFinders has launched a promising new technology to help find patients with Alzheimers, Autism, or other mental impairments that might be in danger if they wander away from caregivers. Based on [+]

Green Healthcare, how can we help save the world?

Leanne Kaiser Carlson from the Estes Park Institute discusses several places healthcare can advance the "green" causes to help conserve resource and fight global pollution and climate change. [+]

Severalls Hospital in the UK needs some serious help and TLC

Colchester Severalls Derelict Hospital is in some desperate need of resurrection.  It is sad to see a facility like this be so run down.  If any UK folks are reading today, could you expand on [+]

CIO Kara Marx interviews for HealthTechnica on MedPlus

Kara Marx, CIO of the 460 bed Methodist Hospital serving the San Gabriel valley in California, recently took time out of her busy schedule to talk with HealthTechnica about her organization's new MedPlus implementations. Methodist Hospital [+]

Needs-Driven and Evidence-Based Point-of-Care Technology Development

Mr. Daniel Mecozzi, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis, focuses on the use of needs assessment surveys as an evidence based approach to designing technology at the point-of-care. This lecture provides a brief overview of [+]

Biometric Technology Now at African Hospital

Bwindi Community Hospital provides health care to some of the poorest people in the world, most of which are afflicted with devastating diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and diarrhea, which are considered the biggest [+]

The EHR Institute asks Dr. Micheal Brooks from Brighton Hospital

What do you think about the role of technology in managing your business? [+]

Australian National health system to go online

For much of the past decade, various Australian federal and state health authorities have been working towards a national, super-connected health system; and it's supposed to be finalised within the next three years. The new, [+]

Does your health plan cover “Mummy MRI”?

Radiologists at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Aventura used modern medical technology to help unravel an ancient mummy mystery from Egypt. I just want to know if Blue Cross will cover mummification :-D [+]

Cool Cap Technology at Phoenix Children’s Hospital

Cooling the brain of an infant that has experienced birth hypoxia (lack of oxygen) helps the brain recover from injury. Infants suffering a lack of oxygen who receive cool cap therapy have a greater [+]

Health Care Over Broadband Saves Lives and Money

The Brookings Institute discusses the nature and need of Telemedicine around the world. Telemedicine combines cutting edge technology with advanced medicine to improve patient care and cut costs. [+]

TeleAudiology from South Africa to Dallas Texas

After receiving a hearing test through telemedicine a patient in Pretoria South Africa is counselled regarding his hearing loss by an Audiologist from Dallas, Texas. [+]

Medical Home Event in Minnesota

The Minnesota Department of health is putting on a "Health Care Homes" medical home event. October 26-29, 2009 Hospitals and Communities Moving Forward with Patient- and Family-Centered Care - An Intensive Training from the Institute [+]

Telehealth in the UK

Adrian Flowerday, Managing Director of Docobo Ltd is also the Chair of the Telehealth Group. This Group works to promote wider and larger procurements of assistive technologies (eg telehealth and telecare) in the [+]

HIMSS Security Survey! Have you taken it?

Have you taken the HIMSS security survey yet? If not, make sure you do! Survey [+]

Health Care Tech discussion on CSPAN

Chris Schoeder, CEO of HealthCentral, discusses the increased use of technology in the health care industry. [+]

Regional Earth System Prediction

This is a very interesting prediction system. I am curious to see how it works in this space. If it works well, I would love to see it applied to health care patterns. [+]
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